{"id":1276,"date":"2020-10-01T08:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:27:48","slug":"page-breaks-rbgs-collars-and-the-power-of-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/10\/01\/page-breaks-rbgs-collars-and-the-power-of-fashion\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: RBG&#8217;s collars, and the power of fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1277\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-21.28.32-780x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-21.28.32-780x1024.png 780w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-21.28.32-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-21.28.32-768x1009.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-30-at-21.28.32.png 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Page Breaks this week will be on Wed 07 October at 1pm. We&#8217;ll be thinking about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and (among other things) her use of feminist fashion. Our main text for this week is Vanessa Friedman&#8217;s <em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>commentary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/20\/style\/rbg-style.html\">&#8216;Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s Lace Collar Wasn&#8217;t an Accessory, it was a Gauntlet&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading and Watching)<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Vanessa Friedman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/20\/style\/rbg-style.html\">&#8216;Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s Lace Collar Wasn&#8217;t an Accessory, it was a Gauntlet&#8217; (NYT)<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>If the link is not accessible for you, you can also access the reading on our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks-texts\/\">texts page<\/a> (email d.butchard@bham.ac.uk for the password).<\/li>\r\n<li>For a bit of extra fun, watch <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video\/justice-ginsburg-exhibits-her-famous-194517521.html?guccounter=1\">this tour<\/a> of RBG&#8217;s collars<\/li>\r\n<li>If anyone would like to share an example of someone using fashion to send a message, we&#8217;d welcome that! I like this one, from AOC:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1278\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-05.32.27-1024x540.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-05.32.27-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-05.32.27-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-05.32.27-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-05.32.27.png 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h3>Time and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 07 October, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/86380972641?pwd=bkJNOGQ4V3JNb3FkaXZKOUpwUEZYQT09\">Link<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome! https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page Breaks this week will be on Wed 07 October at 1pm. We&#8217;ll be thinking about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and (among other things) her use of feminist fashion. 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