I’m prefacing this with my flexibility as I want to know what you think. For my final project, I’m going to be working on a book proposal, that will be the format of this paper, about Queering Stand-Up Comedy: The Revolution Is Taking Place On-Stage (title working). My key texts and my theoretical framework are: The theoretical framework is still a work in progress. Is the central claim of this: queering stand-up is a counterhegemonic force, intentionally diverging from heteronormativity and then to go into case studies? Is it the Stand-Up through a queer lens, what does this look like? …
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My book drops today. Dropped. It dropped.
It’s almost a mirage, that it’s happening. Happened. Today. And as I write this post, the paper looming over my head, a writing I will be doing that will be so different to the writing I have done for this book, this book where the ethics of care looms large, the ties that bind, the ties of friendship, deep and historical friendship, of laughter and of tears, and it occurs to me that I am so grateful to flex muscles I did not know I had. Oh, to think of the obliviousness with which I walked into Grad School, and …
Karen’s Project Description
My key texts and my theoretical framework(s): Broadly, my theoretical commitments are situated in cultural studies, with specific investments in Black and women of color feminisms and queer of color critique. In these traditions, felt experience is honored for its political implications. Feelings are “loaded with information and energy” (Lorde, 1981, p. 280): they facilitate the reproduction of oppression, and they animate and sustain transformative political action. In designing my specific conceptual framework, I draw heavily on Feeling Power: Emotions and Education by Megan Boler (1999); The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (2004); Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant (2011); …
Patterns from shorter project peer review
Objectives: to identify common strengths and weaknesses across projects, with an eye toward replicating our successes and addressing our weaknesses and missed opportunities What went well? What I heard: don’t beat yourself up about that I loved it I wanted to know X, and I wanted to know Y write in the background stories I wanted a hyperlink with to authoritative source I liked X, Y, and Z {{lots of head nodding and eye contact}} I wanted more context Here are more examples of the thing you’re talking about… I wanted more accessible language I had never thought about that …
Reading is Hard!
This isn’t a super polished post… It’s Thursday. I’m doing homework and making my way through the readings for this week in Methods. I explored Angela LaScala-Gruenwald and Brian Mercado’s work with ease and excitement but I’m getting stuck on the pieces by Jaqui Alexander & Chandra Mohanty and Evren Savci. I’m finding the language challenging. I’m struggling to retain the information and stay focused reading more than a few lines and finding myself getting frustrated because I have no idea what I just read. The little voice in my head keeps saying: “You’re not smart enough to read this,” …
My First Post
Yesterday, in class, Sam whisper-said to me, and I’m paraphrasing, “post about your book!” I wrote a YA novel called Getting Over Max Cooper. What is it to write a work of fiction? Create a world that is filled with characters that have engines that drive them? Work within a paradigm of writing that is unique to the voice of the character? That was my challenge. To write from a sixteen year old’s perspective, this nuanced and complicated story, that delved into the unbridled tension of the heart but also stay inside the parameters I’d established for those characters—being true …
AutoEnthnography
I have been thinking alot about our auto-ethnography posts on padlet. Writing mine was cathartic. While the amount of selfies on my camera roll might expose my narcissistic tendencies (although I like to think of it within the frame work self love) the auto-ethnography assignment felt third person-y in a way that led to introspection. I am still working out why that is. The equalityarchive is where I am going to focus my efforts for the short project – but after a brief conversation with Matt after class – I began thinking more and more about an auto-ethnography project for …
Normal People
One of my favorite books is Normal People by a writer called Sally Rooney. I always feel the need to preface my recommendation with the fact that it does lack queer representation and the primary abusive characters is cast as one of the only people of color in the TV adaptation (I will add, though, that this is one of the best book-to-tv/film adaptations I have seen in a long time, and I’m a strong believer that the book is always better). On its surface Normal People is just a pair of young, straight white people fucking (can I say …
Bringing Feminist Theory Home
Here is a small excerpt from Sara Ahmed’s “Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my relationship to feminism and academia. I always return to this particular section to stimulate some thought around this. I have too much whirling around my head at the moment to say much more about this in a cohesive way so I am leaving it here for others to ponder with and fall down the existential rabbit hole of navigating personal politics.
Why are you here?
Hostos Community College,A.A. 2008-2011 My first few weeks at Hostos my mom and I started calling it “the socialist republic of Hostos.” I got my teeth cleaned for the first time in a decade. My son got his teeth cleaned for the first time in his life. I met with a case worker to get my public assistance back. She taught me what to say, what deadlines were coming up, what deadlines were the same year to year. different person helped me get health insurance. I met with a paralegal to help with housing applications. Got a free metro card. Got …
