Making a case for removable batteries During my time at SXSW, I had no better partner than my smartphone, a trusty LG G4. I described my smartphone as “my everything.” The reason being of course that I relied on it for note-taking, photos, social media, messaging, and, most importantly, navigation. As you can imagine, my consistent […]
SXSW 2017 was a whirlwind. From the moment I applied to the class, to the conference, to writing the post and all the tacos in between, I didn’t expect it to fly by so fast. When I started at Texas State University in 2012, I was a Communication Design major and was set on graduating […]
Now comes the time at the end of SXSW where I try to summarize the past two weeks of inspiration, insanity and exhaustion. There are so many high points, it’s hard to focus on just a few, and I am sure that clarity will emerge more over time. First of all, having graduate students be […]
SXSW went as quickly as it came. One moment I was preparing interviews with panelists for preview articles, and now I’m writing my final piece to wrap up my experience. My experience at SXSW was first overwhelming. I had never been to the conference, film or music portion, so it was completely new to me. […]
Finally, the week after SXSW has come where we conclude our thoughts about our experience at the conference and being part of the SXTXState team overall. After a few months working on the SXTXState project, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Being a part of the SXTXState team has been […]
I have been looking forward to writing this specific article for a long time. A lot of the previews, panel coverage and interviews this project has allowed me to do has also forced me to write more as a journalist and less like a blogger. In this article, I get to go back to my […]
Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. Orenstein was one of the SXSW Interactive Keynotes with her panel, Girls and Sex: Navigating from Shame […]