Transition Times is written and produced by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez. Dr. Browdy de Hernandez earned her Ph.D from New York University, Department of Comparative Literature, in 1994, specializing in the politics of identity in testimonials and autobiographies by marginalized people from Latin America, the Caribbean and North America. She has taught gender studies, media studies, human rights and world literature since 1994 at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where for the past ten years she has directed a major conference in observance of International Women’s Day. She is the co-founder of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, editor of the anthology Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean, and co-editor of African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. She is the mother of two teenaged boys.
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mary glenney
/ October 31, 2011Hello Jennifer, I read your response today to the NY Times and I found it very interesting. I have been covering OWS since the beginning and since I do the women ‘s show on WMNF 88.5 in Tampa, I was not suprised to see your involvement with gender studies. I think women have more familiarity with closed doors and the feelings of being ignored. With such a new beginning thatI think that OWS is representing-sometimes the most important and necessary event is showing up-perhaps first to yourselff. Could you be avaialble for an interview for my show? The show airs every Thursday from 3-4 pm on WMNF 88.5 n Tampa, Fl. Thanks
Sharon Coleman, Ph.D.
/ November 15, 2011Dear Jenny:
I am so glad you are doing this blog. I appreciate the way you articulate the issues concerning us. In today’s blog, the following thought is so well-stated by you and surely expresses my ardent desire:
“We want a new system, with a radical reorganization of priorities. Let our foreign policy be run by diplomats, not by bombers and drones. Let an age of international cooperation in the service of urgent global needs begin”.
Keep on inspiring with your words!
Callie Jordan
/ December 3, 2011I’m so glad I found your blog — I’m subscribing so I get the daily post, and I’m slowly working my way through the archives. I don’t know how you manage to write about exactly the topics I’ve been concerned with!
And now that I’ve butchered the grammar in that sentence (shock! ending a sentence with a preposition!), I want to quibble with your use of the word “reigning” as in “reigning in the cost of tuition”. Reigning is for things that rule, reining is for steering a horse. There are any number of common metaphors that come from horse and wagon days: kick over the traces, take the bit between one’s teeth, put the cart before the horse, hold your horses, and others.
I identified with this latest post both as a horse person and as adjunct faculty.
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
/ January 28, 2012Thanks for the correction Callie! I’ll go back and change it–good catch!
REV VINCE
/ January 28, 2012Dear Dr. Hernandez,
Your commentary wrapped around “Kristallnacht” is chilling. I have been writing essays for many years, most of which do not get published. A colleague told me not long ago, “They don’t publish you because you are brutally honest.” Some of my work has been compared as being “between Clemens and Shelley”. Your words sent shock waves through me because you echo many of my concerns. The flip side of the Republican onslaught is the nearly feeble rebuttal from Democrats. I recently wrote to President Obama, suggesting he read Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” and learn the art of pugilism. When fighting thugs, one must learn to fight like a thug! I have added you to my email address, having just “discovered” you. I am eager to read more of your thoughts. America may be “down”, but we are not “out” yet. God forbid that we reach the bottom and then join current day bottom feeders!
Chris Darling
/ March 24, 2012I read your post on Common Dreams, Silent Spring Dawns Hot, Dry and Merciless. Ever since I found out about global warming in detail in 1990 when I read Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature, I have been wondering whether humanity would make the changes needed to stop further changes in climate. So far, as a species, we have failed. And as you must know, even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped miraculously today, warming would continue for a long time.
I have concluded that the dystopian world of too much heat, drought, floods, tornados, hurricanes, famine, and most likely disease will arrive in full force. Too many of our animal and plant companions on this Earth will disappear as will the overwhelming majority of the current human population of 7+ billion. Fortunately, I am old enough that the worst will most likely happen after I am long dead. The sort of musing about humanity’s downfall that you wrote in this post is not often spelled out so directly. Thank you for doing so.
REV M VINCENT TURNER
/ March 26, 2012Humans have been destroying Mother Earth for generations, because most humans believe this our earth to spoil and abuse. We have not honored the custodial responsibility that was instructed to humankind, starting with the Book of Genesis. There is a segment within Christian culture that believes God has given earth to us to use / abuse in any way possible. That idea is outrageous, ludicrous and dangerous. Humankind’s assault on Mother Earth has been and continues to be an abomination. So long as people are allowed to profit from earth’s destruction, no real crusade to save the earth will take hold. Ther merchants of doom and destruction will continue to have their say, and their way.
Barbara Todish
/ April 26, 2012What is to prevent internet blogs, world wide web, etc., from becoming just as exclusionary as MSM? I have been excluded from countless independent as well as msm sites, because someone, perhaps many? may have labelled me a provocateur, troll whatever! I ma unsur and am unable to find out for sure. All I know is that my older brother told me that I have enemies, but he refuses o tell mewho my enemies are. Maybe he is my (only?) enemy?
Barbara Todish
/ April 26, 2012Wanted to edit my mistakes, but zero editing option! Next time I will self edit prior to posting!
My latest article @ Marx’s BEING instead of, or in addition, to HAVING:
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/28-28/11117-bub4ur