Monthly Archives: February 2009

Terry Talks 2008 – Tiffany Tong

The video of my Terry Talk from November 22, 2008 came out. Here it is! I would love to know what you think. Redefining boundaries: Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong from terrytalks on Vimeo. (sorry, I can figure out how to imbed the video onto the page…) Remember to check out all the other Terry Talk videos too!!

January 14, 2009

nothing much happened during these two days….lots of group work in class we had two very interesting lectures, one on the studies of masculinities and one on power and empowerment. The guest lecturer on masculinities was really fun (he started out reading from a script, but the discussion part was great). His field studies/research in Ecuador really put things into perspective. I didn’t realize how important it is that masculinities is included in gender research. The shift from Women in […]

wow…what a start to a day… I couldn’t sleep last night…and I totally thought my class was in the afternoon today. So I overslept and was late for an hour. Today was a really great guest lecturer too…I felt soooo bad. I don’t think I’ve ever actually overslept and not gone to class before…. Then after class, my dearest fellow Canadian, L, tells me that she got an email saying her grandpa just passed away. Oh god…I had no words […]

To myself

Dear me, Happy Birthday! Wow, 21 sure sounds like I’m getting older…which means I can’t play the innocent card so much anymore :P (I’m just kidding…) I’ve been thinking about what a friend said to me many years ago recently. I was in grade 7 (in Hong Kong, grade 7 feels much more grown up because we had just entered high school). It was after school and I was taking the bus home with a friend. I don’t remember what […]

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