Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Project Gutenberg is awesommmme. Check it out.

Project Gutenberg is...
"the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks" (from their website). Everything is free because their copyrights have expired; it's all in the public domain. Therefore, it's a fab place to find oooold texts that discussed gender and sexuality. One of my favorite ones is Henry Stanton's Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (circa 1922).

Here are some other wonderful links to texts about sex...
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26117/26117-h/26117-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31352/31352-h/31352-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20830/20830-h/20830-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14969/14969-h/14969-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21840/21840-h/21840-h.htm



Aaand, there are some really awesome fairy tales available! MANY by the Grimm brothers, Frank L. Baum (and here and here), and many more - different cultures, time periods, languages are represented. Just type in "Fairy" in the second search box on the left column.



Thursday, September 23, 2010

Kicking things off in the proper way

This is some really well-crafted comedy... we danced around a bit of this today in class (gay sex and representations of it in pop culture). It's short, hilarious, wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9SiDtJLaU

(if you're really pressed for time, start at about :45)