Thursday morning Tess and I tried to walk around and see some colleges, but they were closed to visitors/ we couldn't find some of the front doors. So, we decided to walk around University Parks, which we had been trying to do for a while, but we always seemed to end up there right as it closed. So we walked around for a while, saw a lot of ducks and geese and cyclists. It was a really pretty and extensive park. I really like that there are parks like this in Oxford that are not just tidy little patches of grass. There was an extensive path that was comfortably overgrown and meandered by the river. So although we didn't visit any colleges we did find a really nice path/ walking area/ park/ geese.
On Friday evening, Tess and I went to a lecture at Wadham college, which was a really big school. It's very easy see how one could get secluded in these colleges with their high stone walls and and pretty much everything you might conceivably need within.
We went to go see Zoe Margolis speak. She was a blogger who wrote about sexuality and feminism and changing views on sexuality through examples in her sex life anonymously until a newspaper felt it necessary to figure out who she was and ruin her career. She talked a lot about providing sexual health information and about the way that women are viewed in media and her experience as a woman going against the social norm of embracing her sexuality and being a subject in sexuality rather than an object of another's desire. She was a really funny and engaging speaker and I think she did a really good job of showing how her blog was not just a chronicle of sexual experiences, but actually related to a broader, more tenable desire for change within sexual education and the perceptions of women who want to/do embrace their sexuality.
no front doors, huh?
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