Andrea Singer, Author at Public Seminar

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#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 2

Cancel Culture: Failed Activism or Post-Traumatic Response?

February 11, 2020 • by Andrea Singer

#Canceled: Low-brow comedy that hinges on race-based impressions, racial slurs, and gross stereotypes. #Canceled: Anyone who has failed to meet today’s standards of wokeness or who fails to demonstrate sufficient contrition. #Canceled: Cultural appropriation (including your kid’s Halloween costume). #Canceled: Your neighbor -- for their bad parking job (such white male entitlement). Your kid’s ...

#MeToo and the Ontological Trauma of Consciousness Raising, Part 2

Reflections and Conversations Across the Gender Divide

February 10, 2020 • by Andrea Singer

It was two years ago that actor Alyssa Milano, in response to the sexual abuse allegations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein, brought activist Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement into the social media mainstream. And it was one year ago that Christine Blasey Ford, in the midst of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Justice hearing, ...