Molly
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"Coffee is my new drug of choice!"
Female
43 years old
BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky
United States
Last Login: 8/4/2008
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Molly's Interests
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| General | Music, gardening, cooking, activism, sports (especially women's basketball), and my new found love KAYAKING! I love the outdoors, nature, the beach, biking, and long walks...and I am addicted to yoga and swimming. And, my dogs and cats are my life!
I am involved in an organization called BG Green. We are a community group working toward local sustainability. Here are a few important links:
The first two are our community and campus organizations:
Calculate your Ecological
Footprint
| | Music | Just about anything! I like to play folk/folk rock but my listening pleasures are varied...from hip hop (urban) to classical.
Here's one of the Celtic(ish) tunes I recorded with Lost River (Jack Montgomery, Susan Morris, Janine Kiernan) a year or so ago.
John Barley Corn
And, click on the link for the new CD by Shadow Dance (Jack Montgomery & Graham Hudspeth):
| | Movies | An Inconvenient Truth -- this is a must see!
Dead Poet's Society, Fried Green Tomatoes, Hotel Ruwanda, Bowling for Columbine, Roger & Me, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, The Matrix, Legend of Billie Jean, Shrek, and all the Star Trek movies! | | Television | CNN, C-Span at the end of the day, Grey's Anatomy, L Word, Star Trek NG, Star Trek E, Survivor, FitTV, Law & Order(s), CSI(s), and the Food Channel. Oh, and BASKETBALL! | | Books | Da Vinci Code, Secret Lives of Bees, A Silent Spring, Earth Democracy, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Cantebury Tales, Rubyfruit Jungle, Sudden Death, short stories by Poe, and anything by Faulkner! | | Heroes | Above all my mother. She raised me by herself with no support financially and/or emotionally. She never let me down and for that I am forever grateful. All the 60's civil rights workers: King, Davis, Cleaver, Evers, Parks, Malcohlm X, Gloria Steinem, and all the HIPPIES! Also, Jimmy Carter, Susan B. Anthony, Elizbeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Rita Mae Brown, Martina Navratilova, Pat Summitt, Thomas Jefferson, Ghandi, St. Francis (he danced naked in the woods you know), Pope Joan :), and, of course, Karl Marx! |
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Molly's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Religion: | Catholic | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Education: | Grad / professional school |
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About me:
Our new logo for Greener Groundz! Click on the pic to look at our site!
Need doggy daycare? Going out of town for the weekend? Behavioral problems? Help is on it's way! Click the image below for details!
I am a faculty member in the Women's Studies Program at Western Kentucky University. I have a passion for challenging students to think outside the frameworks they bring to college. I don't expect them to change that framework but I enjoy watching that framework broaden and expand. I never thought that I would find a career in education but I think that we all have a destination and when we arrive, we know it!
For more about me visit http://www.wku.edu/~molly.kerby
Hey students! You can also check my web page for study abroad opportunites!
A note about our nation's school system
Though our nation's school system has made tremendous strides in the last 50 years in many areas, it remains wrought with classism, discrimination, and prejudice. Often these displays of oppression are not conscious efforts of instructors, but are merely socially conceived paradigms that engulf their methods of teaching.
So many times our society sets a path for its members based on politics and socioeconomics. I believe that value judgment is misguided and is a disservice to our communities and our nation. There are many minds that are wasted because of the lack of opportunities for the poor, the disabled, the minority, the nontraditional, and the diverse. I believe that anyone can learn if given the opportunity to chase their dream. Success is always apparent in the vision that young people have and they all do have a vision. It is important that educators encourage not discourage children and young adults to put their vision into action because that vision in action will be their future.
I also believe that all barriers to education can be broken with empowerment, guidance, and opportunity. Financial aid programs have opened the doors for the masses to seek equity in education and to allow for some dexterity in social mobility. Community colleges have also provided convenient windows of freedom for women with dependent children to seek an education. It is the responsibility of our instructors to do everything in their power to lift these women up and empower them to continue through to graduation and into the workforce as viable members of our communities. If it takes a village to raise our children, then the higher education systems need to erect their teepee and adopt the family as well.
Everyone is a player in our communities, regardless of skin color, socioeconomic status, gender, religious preference, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ability or disability -- we are a team that is only as strong as its weakest members.
I also believe that diversity education is the greatest key to stabilizing our global market and economy. Ignorance and intolerance have historically destroyed many “civilized” nations. We have witnessed generation after generation falling prey to the horrors of genocide and it must stop. We have an obligation, without borders or boundaries, to educate our young people about other cultures and the wonders of human diversity if we ever expect to have world peace and end classism, racism, sexism, and every other “ism” present in our world today.
I AM
The same spirit that calms, rages.
It is this duality that creates mystery – it is the one
That surprises.
I am soothing yet at times unpredictable;
The same spirit that soothes, empowers.
It is this duality that lends invaluable comfort and
Strength to my students and, at the same time, encourages them to fight back.
I am quenching yet at times uncontrollable;
The same spirit that quenches, surges.
It is this duality that not only sustains, but many times Floods.
It is at one point nurturing, at the other
codependent.
I am healing yet at times still turbulent;
The same spirit that erodes, heals.
It is this duality that makes this body a living entity; Inhabiting;
Though dual – both hot and cold, deep and Shallow -
one that grows…minute-to-minute,
hour-to-hour,
day-to-day,
to infinity…
I am a TEACHER!
~Molly Kerby (1999)
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Who I'd like to meet:
Jimmy Carter, the Indigo Girls, Maya Angelou, Judith Butler, Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, Melissa Etheridge, and, yes Pat Summitt!
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