CL Robinson
Bio
I love history and literature. My posts will contain notes on entertainment. Since 2014 I've been writing online content, , and stories about women. I am also a family care-giver.
Stories (20/0)
Boots of Leather Slippers of Gold
This "important work" came out of the Buffalo Women's Oral History project begun in 1978. The study was put together over a period of fifteen years, by a team that included the authors: anthropologist Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, and Gay and lesbian activist, Madeline Davis. They joined together in order to study a working class lesbian community in Buffalo New York, through the decades of the 1940's and 1950's.
By CL Robinson9 months ago in Pride
Jane Yolen
My view of Jane Yolen begins in the very early 1980s. I considered the YA genre as one I wanted to pursue in my own writing. An in-depth study of the field at that time showed me that there are crossover fields in fiction that tie the adult world and the children’s world together and these works can be called adult fiction or YA depending on the content of the story.
By CL Robinson9 months ago in Education
Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston:
In Asian American Writing there is a war going on between men and women. It is an argument that places women in the position of popular minority writers in a white dominant culture, and men in the position of underdog trying to get a fair break in the world of words. This position began over twenty years ago with two wonderful Asian American writers: playwright and pioneer writer Frank Chin; and multicultural feminist and fiction writer Maxine Hong Kingston.
By CL Robinson11 months ago in Humans
Company Policy
The corporate staff sets the tone and atmosphere for the rest of the company. Is your company committed to ending workplace harassment so that your entire workforce operates at maximum capacity? Have you included this in your mission statement, or do you even have a clearly defined harassment policy? Do you enforce that policy?
By CL Robinson11 months ago in Humans
Treason Our Text
In the 1983 work Treason Our Text Lillian Robinson says: "the elements of the literary canon are simply absorbed by students without any real thought about it." But with every new year, more college students are questioning the canon. Many feel ready to challenge the canon and push for much needed changes.
By CL Robinson11 months ago in Education
Nazi Policy and Gendered Violence:
Throughout the Nazi Third Reich lesbians did actually exist. They were "perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders (Gisela Bock, Ordinary Women)” much like all other Germans caught up in Hitler's plans for the creation of the ultimate Master Race. While Nazi Policy set up rules in order to control everyone, those specific controls over women were the attempt to create a masculine world-view that would always maintain belief in the superiority of one master race over everyone else, and those men over every other living human in the world.
By CL Robinson11 months ago in History
The Duties of an Elizabethan Woman:
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a comedic play about men and women in Elizabethan society who are playing parts and are pretending to be everything but what they really are in order to marry and continue the current social order.
By CL Robinson11 months ago in Education
LGBTQIA+ Organization
Germany is the nation where the LGBT community first organized themselves publicly. That first gay organization in 1897 was the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, Max Spohr, Erich Oberg, and Franz Josef von Bulow. The group sparked both a gay political movement and a women's political movement. Together they laid the foundations for modern German and other LGBT movements.
By CL Robinson11 months ago in Pride
LYSISTRATA
Early Drama and Comedy rarely casts a woman in the lead role of a play. Aristophanes gets away with it only because he uses what every Greek would have considered to be farcical ideas about women waging war, performing in aggressive roles, taking over the treasury, and ending the war by withholding sex from their men until they agree to stop fighting.
By CL Robinson12 months ago in Education
Homophobia in Library Science
Minority groups in the U.S. have spent their lives fighting for inclusion in American Society, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBTQIA+) community is no exception. Many young members of the community begin their search for self in a public or academic library. What gets learned is a huge part of what shapes our lives for a very long time.
By CL Robinson12 months ago in Pride
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson
Jacqueline Amanda Woodson was born February 12, 1963 in Columbus Ohio to a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Her parents were divorced shortly after her birth and she, her brother and her sister, moved to Greenville, South Carolina to live with her grandmother.
By CL Robinsonabout a year ago in Education
