November 2020 Monthly Review

disclaimer: these reviews are for my own personal accountability and aren’t really meant to be articulate blog posts. if you are curious about anything I write here, feel free to email me at nichole.lynn.bennett <at> gmail.com

highlights from the past month

• finished all reaction papers for Theories of Race/Ethnicity
• finished all discussion questions for Theories of Race/Ethnicity
• finished first draft of policy brief for Advanced Qualitative class
• chose topic for Theories of Race/Ethnicity research paper
• meetings with future collaborators (Miriam, Adam)
• Transmissions from 2050 workshops
• revising curriculum for grad student scicomm class
• protocol for STEM grad student interviews finished, focus groups organized

lessons learned from last month

• letting go
• owning mistakes
• forgiving myself

theme or emotion that sums up the month

gratitude journal

• ideas
• dance classes
• playing piano
• watching films
• playing games and talking with friends
• plants
• watching animals

morning pages

• searching for resilience
• searching for self-care
• collaboration challenges
• letting go
• coming to terms with my introversion
• being gentle on myself
• existentialism
• healthy validation from professors

media

tv shows

• Mandalorian
• Last Week Tonight
• I Love You America

films

• The Long Goodbye
• Five Easy Pieces
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• The Searchers
• Cabaret
• Top Hat
• Singin’ in the Rain
• 42nd Street
• Love Me Tonight
• Strangers on a Train
• Rear Window
• Shadow of a Doubt
• The Lady Eve
• It Happened One Night
• Ball of Fire
• Metropolis
• His Girl Friday
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

books

• White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
• Data Activism and Social Change
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
• Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
• A People’s History of the United States
• Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

music

• Megan Thee Stallion
• Bree Runway

board games/rpgs

• Masks
• Brindlewood Bay

video games

• Rimworld

podcasts

• Hidden Brain

MOOCS

• MIT’s Film Experience
• Ron Finley’s Masterclass on gardening
• Mindfulness Coursera