Technical Writing

Wireless network troubleshooting guide for internal training documents.

Excerpt

The UW-IT Service Center receives a variety of technical support questions and every situation is different. It takes time and practice before you might feel comfortable handling tech support calls. The following are some common support questions you might encounter.

Q: "I cannot connect to the wireless network on campus."

* First, verify if the person has a UW NetID (minimum requirement to connect.)

* Has the customer every successfully connected to the UW wireless network?

° No. Verify their device has wireless capabilities and that the wireless capabilities are enabled.

° Yes. If the customer has successfully accessed wireless in the past, check the following areas:

→ Ask for the MAC address to check and see if access has been disabled. If it is listed as disabled, follow the procedures listed on the disabled page.

→ Ask or check if the password has been changed recently. This is particularly important if the person saves their password in the browser. If they have reset the password, walk them through clearing their cache or cookies on the browser and completely logging out of the weblogin service (http://www.washington.edu/computing/weblogin/logout.html.)

Entertainment Writing

A synopsis of the Riot Grrrl movement on PubliCola.

Excerpt

The riot grrrl movement was an important clash of third-wave feminism, punk rock, DIY politics (and aesthetics), and youth culture in the early '90s. Twenty-something women wanted to play their guitars loudly and be heard; they were tired of being sidelined through the patriarchal standards of music and the music business; they wanted to reconstruct femininity and make it tough.

A reaction to stand-up comedy on Grrl Nerd.

Excerpt

The recipe for feminist disaster is boredom on a Saturday night with a streaming Netflix account. You see, in an effort to stave off coldness and boredom, I ended up watching a film about Sam Kinison.

*cue doom music*

I cringed and gritted my teeth through the footage of Kinison. His love of screaming "whore" about his ex (and any other women who catch his attention), joking about violence, and broad generalizing about women being crazy and manipulative and soul-crushing made me lose my mind. He is angry man, with a rage and vitriol that makes me sad; sad for him, sad for his ex, sad for the women in his life, sad for anyone who witness his substance abuse, and sad for those women he called and harassed on stage for a cheap laugh.

Academic Writing

Media analysis for a documentary for Queer Visual Representations class in Winter 2009.

Excerpt

They Shine...On Being Gay in Morelos, Mexico is a collaborative documentary from 2002, produced by Greg Berger and his Gringoyo production company. The documentary is comprised of footage and photographs collected from four participants from Mazatepec, a small town in central Mexico and produced in association with Autonomous University of Morelos, where Greg Berger is a professor of film. While the methodology of choosing participants is unknown, it is clear from Berger's stated mission on his personal booking site that he wants to disrupt hegemonic notions of migration and power.

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Intersectionality is the fundamental theoretical framework in my analysis of They Shine because it is dangerous to separate different identity discourses in the film, as it disrupts the reality in which the film was created. Just as it would be impossible for the film participants to specifically cite their nationality or gender or sexuality as more critical to their personhood, it would be undermining for a reader of the film to deconstruct the narrative in this way. As Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan clarify, "Gender and sexual difference have become understood as attributes of bodies unmarked in any other way, despite copious evidence that all of these modern identities are interconnected." (667) The interconnected quality prohibits a clean breakdown of identity, but acknowledging the complicated and woven nature of the identity construction does allow analysis to reflect an honest and genuine understanding of the context and narrative in the film.