A not so gay life john s knight
The Sunday Times story boiled this down to Was Robin Hood Homosexual ? There was a fine colour pic of ultra-handsome Errol Flynn and an astutely selected illustration by Howard Pyle, the very influential American illustrator of 1883, showing Robin and Friar Tuck playing horsey in the moisture. The text focused on the sharp shock of the gay charge, but also, as suits a serious Sunday paper, had research on show: the distinguished Barrie Dobson, Professor at Cambridge, said that homosexuality in the medieval period was not necessarily as repressed as you might think, and there was a nice round-up from the present Earl of Huntingdon saying goodness gracious me.
As I had expected there was fall-out. My wife trained as a journalist on a Rupert Murdoch sheet in Australia, and we have some experience of how a new story can suddenly start a media feeding frenzy, but this was bigger than both of us. I got back from my tour-preparing trip on a Sunday to find that a few wily journalists had got my number from security at my university. I wonder what they think security means. First up were the BBC, awake to the world as ever. One call was from Radio 5, the brainless lightweight morning chat
Looking forward to Pride Month: John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, Peer Career Network, and IRE24
Hello! This is Kai Proschan, one of TJA's new community managers. Together with my co-manager, Leo Aquino, we'll curate and send out these monthly newsletters that acquire you up to speed on all things TJA and trans journalism. We have some exciting member spotlights and journalism events to learn about this week. Plus, a profession opening. Without further ado, enjoy!
Table of contents
- Member spotlights
- TJA Peer Career Network
- Journalism Events
- Job Listings
- Our Events at IRE24
- What We're Reading
Member spotlights
TJA member N. Kirkpatrick, a visual reporter at The Washington Post, and their team of over 75 won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for the series American Icon on the AR-15. Nick was the guide reporter on “The Blast Effect” a story that animates how bullets fired from an AR-15 destroyed the bodies of two new victims. Nick was also a co-reporter on “Terror on Repeat”, which chronicles the pattern of destruction wrought by the weapon through never-before-published photos, videos, and first-hand accounts from 11 mass shootings.
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The John S. Knight Institute provides academic writing support for undergraduate and graduate students, as adequately as speaking endorse to multilingual local and international graduate and professional students across all Cornell schools and colleges. The program administers first-year writing seminars and offers tutorial-based writing courses, seminars in the learning of writing, and writing and speaking courses for multilingual graduate and professional students. The program also supports upper-level courses across the university. In addition to courses, the Knight Institute provides tutoring services, writing workshops, a conversational English program, and curricular support for faculty who educate writing in designated writing courses or in courses across the curriculum that integrate writing with learning.
Website: https://knight.as.cornell.edu
Faculty
The director of the John S. Knight Institute is George Hutchinson, professor in the Department of Literatures in English.
The Knight Institute has 3 campus locations:
- 105 Stimson Hall, (607) 255-2280
- 174 Rockefeller Hall, (607) 255-6349
- 260 Caldwell Hall, (607) 255-5040
T. Carrick (Director, Writing Workshop; Director
Our Children, Our Strangers
All parents love their children, or so we believe. Parents who reject their children seem unnatural, morally reprehensible.
Yet there is a gray area in between total parental rejection and the absolute, all-consuming affectionate that we consider normal. In that gray area there are the children whom parents must battle to love. They are children with disabilities so profound that the parents are denied any possibility of a normal being. They are the children of rape. They are children who grow up to commit heinous criminal acts. They are also children whose identities form them outcasts, such as boys who wish they had been born girls and girls who appear to identify as male.
According to author and psychologist Andrew Solomon, these excessive cases reveal something fundamental about the parental condition. “Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent partnership with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity,” he writes in his modern book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity. How can parents observe the world through the eyes of these strangers—and in doing so, treasure them for who they ar
The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality
These figures may not be sky-high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this organization, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog share, external that for much of new history gay people haven't been living openly gay lives. Compelled by world to enter marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.
How many gay people have children also depends on how you define existence "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa go on to get married and have children.
"The category of homosexual sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you proceed to India, you'll find that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't indicate there's no homosexuality there."
Similarly in the West, there is evidence that many people move through a phase of homosexual exercise. In the 1940s, US sex researcher Alfred K