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Recovering from San Fran

I am back from San Fran and the ASA conference. The conference was decent, although there are not many people presenting about my particular research area per se. This is good I suppose - makes my research cutting edge yes? I spent most of time attending the Internet sessions that were available (in particular Digital Divide), but the good ones were all at the same time as my own, which was really too bad. Other sessions that I attended were sessions on Gender and Pop Culture and/or Media, and Race and Ethnicity sessions. There were other sessions that I was interested in - from my past academic life - deviance and crime, but alas, I did not digress.

Mark George gave an excellent paper entitled "Towards a Critical Antiracism, Rethinking the Term 'Antiracist'" and I will tell you more about after I ask permission to talk about here. I can say though his sentiments on Critical Antiracism have been/are reflected in this blog in regards to speaking of my own white priviledge. More on this later (with permission).

An interesting elevator moment came when I saw a man that I recognized. I had to think a minute, and then I realized that I had seen his picture on his Blog. I checked the name tag, and sure enough fellow blogger (and sociologist) Brayden King was standing next to me. I introduced myself as Tracy Kennedy (who?) - you know, "Netwoman". Ah yes. It is indeed a small blogger world.

There was much to see in San Fran, but I had already been to Fisherman's Wharf the previous year when I was at Berkeley. I strolled along Chinatown with my favourite pal "answergirl" (who is now at Burning Man) and enjoyed the kitsch. How fun. Union Square was great, the shopping fabulous. Answergirl showed me the Hello Kitty store, which was hilarious. I am stuck on Chococat.

posted by Netwoman @ 9:11 PM