The thumb drive I uploaded my presentation to would not speak to the computers at school, so I had to fly by the seat of my pants and do my presentation old school. Thank god I brought my sketch book. I felt pretty shitty about the whole thing, but I know that it was a test run for my thesis presentation coming up. I may bring the laptop for that one, and a mood board, and hopefully three of my outfits. It'll happen mid March now, I suspect.
Why so late you ask? Well, I have one last rewrite to do, stating the obvious in my opening paragraph what my thesis is. I am sitting at the computer to do that today. Then I will send it off in all directions and set up the meeting of the committee. I will be ready for that!
I am well on my way of having two outfits finished by the end of reading week next week, and hope to have the third patterned out and cut in good cloth. I will wear one of the outfits in the presentation, and have the other two on manikins. I also will put together a mood board of the women of Punk that I'll be referencing in my thesis.
I am excited to finally be working on the project. It's been a rough year but I made it through. Dr Randi talks about the project to everyone she can. I hope that with this thesis project, we can open up the space for a broader conversation, and we can, as a discipline, stop trying to put people into boxes they don't need or belong in. In other good news, Dr Randi has not just been voted Best Professor in Halifax, but it's looking like she'll be Chair for the Cultural Studies department for the next couple of years. This is exciting news! I may be in a women's and gender studies program at another University, but my thesis advisor is the Chair of a department that I would have rather been in, if they had a Master's Program. Here's hoping that my project can open that door as well.
Well, I should go write...I have someone sitting on my shoulder, piss nooshing me in the ear...
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