Listen: Social Distance Podcast (from The Atlantic) on HIV
In class: SHOW AND TELL!
**Bring in your own thing to share, a current event or issue that you’ve seen posted about on the news, social media, in a movie/documentary, etc.**
Optional: Watch: Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs (via Kanopy with access through the BC library)
Optional: Hyperallergic review of General Idea exhibition from 2017
This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, Eds. (Introduction, plus selections–see assignment)
Listen: Codeswitch Podcast, POC or BIPOC
Listen: Throughline Podcast: Our Own People
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Ch. 1 (The Subjects of Gender/Sex/Desire)
Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook (selections)
Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction
Eve Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Intro/Ch1 only)
On White Privilege: Watch: Peggy McIntosh, TED Talk
About Audre Lord: Her Life and Writing
Audre Lord, Who Said It Was Simple (poem)
Kimberlé Crenshaw, The Urgency of Intersectionality, TED Talk
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera – Read Chs 1 and 2
1A Podcast: Gloria Anzandua and the Book that Changed the Borders
How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women, The New York Times
Questions to encourage thought: When reading Rousseau’s description of Sophy, what do you notice? How is she described? Is it a flattering description? Does the description sound familiar or make you think of anything or anyone in particular?
Book V of Emile, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Watch: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We Should All Be Feminists”
Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook (selections)
Questions to encourage thought: What is toxic masculinity, and who does it harm?
Michael Ian Black, “The Boys Are Not All Right,” The New York Times
Peggy Orenstein, “The Miseducation of the American Boy,” The Atlantic
What is the banking model, and where have we/you experienced it?
How does power intersect with education? Can you think of an example from the reading? From your own experience? Why would this be? Who stands to gain (what) and who stands to lose (and lost what?)?
