Author Archives: Camilla

Enjoying this Gig – Disability Ethics Teaching Assistant

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June 15 2025

Just finished my 1st week of TA’ing for the Disability Ethics class (Teaching Assistant). I’m assigned to week 1 and 3. I’m really enjoying this. However, some of the students may not be enjoying me due to my obsessive attention to detail. 🤣 I thought it was an exaggeration that students are using AI generated answers. Every once in a while I found myself reading the same answer over and over … Hmmm … Wait a minute! Pretty cool gig as I’m earning 3 credits for it. 💥💥💥

Cool answer bro. But it does not answer the actual question(s). 😁 I’m wild. I did a copy and paste of all the similar/identical answers so I could compare them as I went along. I’m visual so needed to see them together. I refuse to use AI even to test for AI. I’ll let the professor do that. 😎

I’ve been a student there now for a few semesters. I have met mostly impressive critical thinkers. It’s been great. It seems the critical thinkers are the one’s who speak up and want to discuss things in class (I know I do!) so maybe that’s why I’ve not seen the flip side to that. This is my first time being a TA so I’m seeing work product from the entire class.

Scratching a 30 Something Year Old Itch – Shag and Bangs

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June 13 2025

Shag and bangs. 🖤🫣🖤

Brain Puzzles – I Love Writing Essays

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June 7 2025

After two semesters and this summer class, one thing I’m learning about myself is how much I enjoy writing essays, putting texts in conversation, connecting dots = critical thinking. It’s like putting together a puzzle and it makes my brain happy. I’m also a title nerd. I love creating titles, especially edgy, attention grabbing titles. I wish I could linger a bit longer with so much of the material. I’m saving everything for when I (hopefully) have time!

Professor feedback for my Modern World essay:

Camilla,
This is a fascinating paper, linking the emergence of feminism to the printing press, the spread of literacy, etc. As you point out, Martin Luther and Olympe de Gouges were not the first to question the church and/or patriarchy, but it was difficult to spread those ideas without the right technology. Print was a crucial catalyst for the spread of radical new ideas. The paper also does a great job of connecting the emergence of first-wave feminism with a number of other radical movements: Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Reformation, etc. It was a period of change and feminists were involved in all of these movements. It’s not only a tour de force of key moments from our class, but also a thoughtful contextualization of the emergence of western feminism.

Great work on this,
Dr. Morse

The Modern World – Core Credit – Finished!

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June 6 2025

Next to last core requirement done! We took the mid-term last Thursday and the final exam today! And the class is finished! A 14 day whirl wind of The Modern World. Wild times! I really loved learning about, and brushing up on, this time period. It’s absolutely mind blowing. Here’s the material we covered after the mid-term:

Industrial Revolution

Sarah Stickney Ellis from
The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
(1839)

Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England
(1844)

Charles Darwin
Excerpt from On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
(1859)

Manifesto of the Communist Party
by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
February 1848

World War I and Interwar Period

Dulce et Decorum Est
BY Wilfred Owen
1921

William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
(1919)

Milk Raj Anand
Across the Black Waters
1937

Mohandas K Gandhi
from Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule
(1938)

Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents
1933

World War II and Decolonization

Elie Wiesel
Night
1958

Aime Cesaire
Discourse on Colonialism
1955

Edward Said
Orientalism

Postwar Period: Cold War, Postmodernism, Neoliberalism

United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Jean-Francois Lyotard
T
he Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
1979

Jean Baudrillard
from The Precession of Simulacra
1981

Wendy Brown
Undoing the Demos:
Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution
2015

We also had to write a 5-7 page essay:

In this essay assignment, you will identify a key theme that strikes your interest from among those we studied over the term and argue its importance to the modern world by pointing out the thinking that makes such a theme possible.

My goal is to graduate Spring 2026 so I had to take a few summer classes. Fascinating to connect the dots to what is currently happening with this fucked up administration. Half the population needs to take this class.

Monday Night Poetry – Vibe Nourishment

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May 31 2025

Another Monday Night Poetry, Another Vibe Nourishment Night. Fantastic and fabulous folks! 🖤🖤🖤

Date Day With My Amazing Teen – Reno Riverwalk

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May 27 2025

Date day with this one. I love conversations with you, chatting about our UNR classes, laughing and raging together. I love that you want to hang out with me. I am one lucky and blessed parent. 🖤🖤🖤

Notes: Poinsettia Love

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May 24 2025

The poinsettia really loves the pruning I gave it. 💚💚💚

Update: Five Days Down – This is Wild

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5 days down of the 14 day compressed UNR class, The Modern World. 9 more days to go! Midterm exam is next week. This is wild!

We began with Hamlet as he was perhaps the first modern character, struggling with doing what he was supposed to do and wanting to think for himself and investigate.

Hamlet (Modern, Editor’s Version)

I also watched Kenneth Branagh’s film, Hamlet. At 4 hours in length, it is the complete dialogue. That’s why I chose this version. I wanted to deepen my understanding. I didn’t look at the cast names and was continually surprised by the big name actors and actresses in the film. Made my heart so happy when Robin Williams walked into a scene!

Modern History Sourcebook: Martin Luther (1483–1546): Address To The Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
The Three Walls Of The Romanists

Nicolaus Copernicus
On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)

Chapter 6: On the Immensity of the Heavens in Relation to the Magnitude of the Earth
Galileo Galilei, Excerpt from The Sidereal Messenger (1610)
THE SIDEREAL MESSENGER

The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature
Francis Bacon

The Essays of Montaigne
Of Cannibals

Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, describing the results of the first voyage
Christopher Columbus (1493)

Mary Wortley Montagu
LETTERS (1716-1718)

Charles de Secondat, Baron deMontesquieu from THE SPIRIT OF LAWS (1748)

Olaudah Equiano
from THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN (1789)

Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
CHAPTER XIII:
OF THE NATURAL CONDITION OF MANKIND AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY AND MISERY

Modern History Sourcebook John Locke: Two Treatises of Government, 1690
CHAPTER II: Of the State of Nature

Adam Smith
For Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

IMMANUEL KANT
An Answer to the Question: “What is Enlightenment?”
Konigsberg, Prussia, 30th September, 1784.

Emmanuel Sieyes
from WHAT Is THE THIRD ESTATE?(1789)

The Black Jacobins
TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE AND THE SAN DOMINGO REVOLUTION SECOND EDITION, REVISED
C.L.R. JAMES

Declaration of the Rights of Man – 1789
National Assembly

Olympe de Gouges, “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Woman-Citizen” (1791)

Mary Wollstonecraft
From Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein – reading for next week

For extra credit, we were to find a meme that ties in with our readings from last week. The printing press changed the world. It’s unbelievable that half the population seem to want a return to pre-Modernism and pre-Enlightenment.

Getting Refueled = Iron to the Rescue

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May 19 2025

I’ve looked forward to this for the last two weeks. Hooked up to an IV for 3 hours for an iron refill. Everybody cross your fingers and toes (please) that this addresses all of the health issues I’ve been having. ❤️❤️❤️

Let me add … I had to do this in 2022 when after a year and a half it was finally determined that I have pernicious anemia (stomach does not absorb B12) and iron deficiency anemia. I give myself monthly B12 shots but the iron levels had been not monitored as I left the hematologist I was seeing because he was an asshole. This will not happen again as I’ll find an actual human hematologist and monitor it every 3 or 6 months. Now I know my damn stomach doesn’t like to absorb iron either. 😁🤣😁

I’m actually feeling pretty damn good. It’s wild to me how much the body decides it’s probably dying due to low iron, and this creates havoc all over the body. I was sure I was low on iron at the end of last summer, but my doctor kept blowing me off. It took landing in the cardiologist office over and over for him to look at my labs. Right away, the cardio commented that Oh, yeah. You need an iron infusion. This is the second time this has happened. Now I know and it won’t happen again. We’ll be monitoring my iron levels from now on.

Not letting this happen again. I lost nearly 8 months of my life, feeling like total crap. I am just blown away by how much low iron levels affects me.

Actually makes you feel like your dying!

The Modern World = Compressed Version

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May 18 2025

Begins tomorrow: The Modern World = An entire semester packed into a mini-session of 14 days. I’ve truly lost my mind. 🤔 Hey little Camilla, if you only knew the adventures you’ve got in store, whew! 💥💥💥

Analyzes Europe’s legacy in shaping world ideas, institutions, and cultures. Includes Renaissance; Reformation; Enlightenment; Romanticism; development of science and industry; political revolutions; colonialism; postcolonialism; globalization.