reflections
My blog features semiregular reflections on enacting a Pinayist praxis in multiple aspects of my life -- from teaching to leading an academic program to decolonial and feminist parenting to trying to binge-watch the latest Netflix show.
What is antiracist and gender expansive language?
Words are powerful. They don’t just describe the world; words can shape the world.
How do I use AI as a thinking tool?
We live in a ChatGPT world. Some argue that adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) and large-language models have emerged to make writing classes like the ones I teach at UCSD’s Dimensions of Culture Program (DOC) obsolete. Or have they?
How does DOC do grades?
Grades as symbols place all of the responsibility for a student’s performance entirely on the individual student; grades as symbols obscure all the other factors that play into how well any student does in school.