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<P><FONT SIZE=2>CONGRATS to you and Heidi, Sugie!! Great news about the sabbatical, the publications, and (especially!) the continued legality of your wonderful marriage. Keep fighting that good fight, my friend! We'll fight it from Texas. Hopeful but not delusional. Prospects aren't good in this red state. Now. Things will change. They just have to. It's the natural order of things.<BR>
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Still, today my dearest friends Kim and Neva and Christa and Rachel carry on with their families and their children and their deep love for one another, both families with enlightened employers who carry insurance for their partners and very progressive support for maternity leave and fertility plans. Kim and Neva celebrated the twins fifth birthday just last August. Christa and Rachel's girls are now 2 and 4. Life together without legal rights is bloody hard and frightening but as more and more states across the nation are forced to recognize the equality at this level . . . well, let's just say that even Texas had to eventually give up slavery way back when.<BR>
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See you in SF very soon!<BR>
Shannon<BR>
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Shannon Carter<BR>
Associate Professor of English<BR>
Texas A&M-Commerce<BR>
shannon_carter@tamu-commerce.edu<BR>
<A HREF="http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/">http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/</A><BR>
903-886-5492<BR>
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From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Sugie Goen-Salter<BR>
Sent: Sun 3/8/2009 2:08 PM<BR>
To: cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu<BR>
Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +<BR>
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Hi all,<BR>
Just got back into town to find all of your postings of good news, <BR>
both personal and professional. Congrats to Peter Adams and to all of <BR>
you for the good things happening on your campuses.<BR>
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Here at San Francisco State, we've had a boon year. This year, Mary <BR>
Soliday has joined our faculty, both in our Composition MA program <BR>
and as our campus WAC/WID director. We were also joined this year by <BR>
two new junior faculty members, Kory Ching from University of <BR>
Illinois and Tara Lockhart from Pitt. And we have Jennifer Trainor <BR>
who joined us last year before and is now serving as our new graduate <BR>
coordinator. As a direct result of this influx of such talented new <BR>
faculty, our graduate and undergraduate writing programs are changing <BR>
in long-overdue and positive directions, and there is a spirit of <BR>
enthusiasm and innovation in the air that's palpable. What a welcome <BR>
respite from budgetary woes! Meanwhile, our integrated reading/<BR>
writing stretch program is humming along. The next addition is <BR>
Directed Self-Placement as an alternative to California State <BR>
University's English Placement Test. Implementing DSP is my project <BR>
for the upcoming year.<BR>
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On a more personal/professional note, I just came off of sabbatical. <BR>
What a genius invention sabbatical is!! How delightful to get to be <BR>
thoughtful again, and to have a single, sustained focus....what a too <BR>
rare and wonderful pleasure.... I have a new JBW article to show for <BR>
it, along with an edited book prospectus and a chapter in a newly <BR>
published volume called Generation 1.5 in College Composition.<BR>
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Heidi and I continue to enjoy the right to be legally married in <BR>
California (we got married on June 25th for the third time...to each <BR>
other!!). The California Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday to <BR>
invalidate Proposition 8, which amends the CA Constitution to define <BR>
marriage as between one man and one woman. Prop 8 passed in November <BR>
on a narrow margin of 52% to 48%. Based on the justices' questions on <BR>
Thursday, it looks like they will uphold Prop 8, but that they won't <BR>
invalidate the 18,000 marriages that took place since the supreme <BR>
court's last ruling. So for now, we are legally married and will <BR>
continue to fight for marriage equality for all....This summer, we <BR>
load up our 3 dogs into our VW camper van and head off for the wilds <BR>
of Alaksa. Can't wait....<BR>
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And can't wait to see all of you in our fair city. Til next week, <BR>
safe travels to you all,<BR>
Sugie<BR>
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Sugie Goen-Salter<BR>
Associate Professor<BR>
English Department<BR>
San Francisco State University<BR>
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