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a reading, writing, and photo blog. oh and animals. and their rights. there ain't never been any reimer reason, and i'm not gonna start now

MJ: At the beginning of the project, you hired several career coaches to help you design your resume and guide you in your search. What are your overall thoughts about job coaching?

BE: A lot of what was going on with my coaches was a complete and utter waste of time. First, they all want to do a personality test. My first thought was, “I already told you I’m a P.R. person, that’s what I do. So what if I have the personality of an embalmer?” In 1993, 89 of the Fortune top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don’t want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense. People take the test in the morning and then take it again in the afternoon and have a new personality. There’s a wonderful recent book, Cult of Personality by Annie Murphy Paul, who just goes through how it’s ridiculous.

Bait and Switch: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich | Mother Jones

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This place (Taken with instagram)

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Trampoline Hall (Taken with Instagram at Performance Works Theatre)

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What Comes after Pain? Gendered Embodiment and Temporality in Chronic Pain Memoirs

October 12, 2011

This is interesting. If I didn't have to work I would go.

Public Lecture: Professor Leigh Gilmore

86 million people worldwide have been diagnosed as

suffering from chronic pain, and the number is rising. As

chronic pain has increased, memoirs about the experience

have begun to appear. This talk examines a cluster of

chronic pain memoirs as a site for negotiating agency in the

face of irremediable pain, and the interleaving at this site of

biomedicine and narrative structure. Autobiography studies

and feminist posthumanism help to frame this inquiry into

the figuration of gendered embodiment and temporality in

chronic pain memoirs.

Fri October 14 th

1 PM

Ike Barber Learning

Center Room 355

Snacks provided

INFO: janice.stewart@ubc.ca

Posted by Nikki Reimer. Posted In : events & contests & conferences & such

Human cruelty in the name of science

September 12, 2011

This is bullshit:

Stop UBC Animal Research’s months-long investigation of UBC has revealed disturbing details about the university's research. For instance, one UBC researcher has experimented on cats for 30 years. In his papers, the researcher described how he had cut open the backs of cats to expose their vertebrae, inserted titanium screws into the cats' spinal columns to inhibit movement, and built restraint chambers around the cats' exposed vertebra to give researchers access to the cat...
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Posted by Nikki Reimer. Posted In : Animals/Animal Orgs/Animal Welfare

This Is East Van at the the Make It! Show!

April 16, 2011

I have been oh so busy and totes not keeping up with this blog. But amidst various other projectories, I am please to announce that the This Is East Van photobook, which features a photo of my dearest late Baba at the old Hatch (now Rhizome Cafe) can be viewed and purchased the Make It! Vancouver fair, on now at the Croatian Cultural Centre.

Deets from TIEV website:

Join THIS IS EAST VAN April 15 - 17 at the Make It! Show.

We couldn't think of a better place than the Spring Make It! show to pre...

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m. nourbeSe PHILIP: Tuesday March 8 at KSW!

March 6, 2011

I can't make this due to a work commitment. But you should totally go.

m. nourbeSe PHILIP

Tuesday March 8, 2011

W2 Community Meeting Space, Woodward's Heritage Building

111 W Hastings St. - Suite 250

Doors 7, Reading 7:30

M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, writer, and lawyer who lives in the City of Toronto. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Canada. She is the author of She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988), Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991), Frontiers: Essays...

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The Capilano Review 3.13 Manifestos Now! Launch |Feb. 22, VAG

February 19, 2011

Announcing The Capilano Review

3.13 Manifestos Now!

This special issue of Canadian and international manifestos—including work from Christian Bök, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber, Gregory Betts, Derek Beaulieu, Frank Da...

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