Timmia Hearn Feldman
Timmia Hearn Feldman
Recent Stories
Hearn Feldman: Art and 'Avatar'
“Avatar” combines a fantasy recreation of a historical tale with a mythological feat. The classic struggle of good versus evil is given a conveniently popular, liberal, anti-corporate, pro-cultural anthropology bent, but really a retelling of the European invasion of the Americas during the age of exploration in which the native population gets a timely insight into the minds of their invaders enabling them to fight back and preserve the purity of their culture.
Hearn Feldman: Defining liberal feminism
I consider myself a liberal feminist. This term comes with a lot of baggage.
Hearn Feldman: The rat race to the top
It seems that every administration brings its own moral issue to the forefront of the nation’s mentality.
Hearn Feldman: Reaching the core of liberal arts
At the beginning of this year, I quit the theater studies major, decided that pursuing a career on the stage is not for me and turned my attention to research and teaching. And yet, I agree with my advisor. Yesterday, I remembered why.
Hearn Feldman: Colors of self-identification
I shopped a molecular anthropology class, and though I’m not taking it, one moment of that class stands out to me more clearly than any other from shopping period. The professor said a sentence that, strangely, our world still seems incapable of comprehending: “Race doesn’t exist.”
Hearn Feldman: Summer, unromantic
"What did you do this summer?" It’s the question that every returning Yalie asks and is asked hundreds of times in these first couple weeks back on campus. “Where did you go?” “What did you see?” “What did you learn?”