10am: POST #3

For your final blog post, I would like you to read and respond to the poem "I Want a Dyke for President" written by artist and activist Zoe Leonard in 1992. In your response, please think about what Leonard means and why the resurgence of the poem in billboard form during the 2016 presidential had relevance and meaning. What does her poem mean to you, and how do you relate to what she is saying? Feel free to bring personal connections into this and feelings you might have on the relationship between claiming a feminist identity amidst particular political struggles, political resistance, and feminist/queer activism.

The text is attached here. I am also including a couple articles written about Zoe Leonard's poem displayed as a billboard in New York City during the time of the U.S. Presidential election in 2016. Included is also a video of performance artist Mykki Blanco reading Leonard's poem, which provides a different context for understanding the poem.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zoe-leonard-i-want-a-president-billboard_us_57f6402ce4b05f39c51e5024

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exkv5n/this-radical-feminist-poem-is-now-a-giant-ass-art-installation

https://youtu.be/y6DgawQdSlQ

9am: POST #3

For your final blog post, I would like you to read and respond to the poem "I Want a Dyke for President" written by artist and activist Zoe Leonard in 1992. In your response, please think about what Leonard means and why the resurgence of the poem in billboard form during the 2016 presidential had relevance and meaning. What does her poem mean to you, and how do you relate to what she is saying? Feel free to bring personal connections into this and feelings you might have on the relationship between claiming a feminist identity amidst particular political struggles, political resistance, and feminist/queer activism.

The text is attached here. I am also including a couple articles written about Zoe Leonard's poem displayed as a billboard in New York City during the time of the U.S. Presidential election in 2016. Included is also a video of performance artist Mykki Blanco reading Leonard's poem, which provides a different context for understanding the poem.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zoe-leonard-i-want-a-president-billboard_us_57f6402ce4b05f39c51e5024

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exkv5n/this-radical-feminist-poem-is-now-a-giant-ass-art-installation

https://youtu.be/y6DgawQdSlQ

10am: POST #2

For this second post, I want you to consider our discussions in class about disability, fatness, and oppression, and how these conditions or states of identity are intersectional with other identities.

Please look at Nomy Lamm's "It's a Big Fat Revolution" article (link below) and write a response to this article, thinking of how she approaches her discussion of fatness intersectionally, and how this connects to our discussions about disability and oppression/privilege.

http://tehomet.net/nomy.html

9am: POST #2

For this second post, I want you to consider our discussions in class about disability, fatness, and oppression, and how these conditions or states of identity are intersectional with other identities.

Please look at Nomy Lamm's "It's a Big Fat Revolution" article (link below) and write a response to this article, thinking of how she approaches her discussion of fatness intersectionally, and how this connects to our discussions about disability and oppression/privilege.

http://tehomet.net/nomy.html

10am: POST #1

9am: POST #1

10am: Make-Up Assignment for Friday 10/6

Hi All,

For your make-up assignment, I would like you to think more about the meaning of feminism and what it is about. I would like you to keep in mind some the discussions we had in lecture on Tuesday and to try to incorporate the key terms "subject position/positionality" and "intersectionality" into your response, even if you are just trying these terms out for the first time. 

Please read these two articles that discuss feminism from a wide range of opinions and perspectives, political opinions, and in relation to oppression, and share with us how you understand the meaning of feminism now after we have read about it and discussed it a bit more. Has your understanding of the term "feminism" or "feminist" shifted, and if so, how? Did anything surprise you or stand out to you and why?

Please write at least two paragraphs. If you would like to comment on another student's post, you are welcome to, but it is not a requirement for this assignment.

This is DUE by the time your normal section would end on Friday 10/6. Add your response in a comment below this prompt.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/515799019/today-s-feminism-too-much-marketing-not-enough-reality


http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a21728/feminism-political-commitments/

9am: Make-Up Assignment for Friday 10/6

Hi All,

For your make-up assignment, I would like you to think more about the meaning of feminism and what it is about. I would like you to keep in mind some the discussions we had in lecture on Tuesday and to try to incorporate the key terms "subject position/positionality" and "intersectionality" into your response, even if you are just trying these terms out for the first time. 

Please read these two articles that discuss feminism from a wide range of opinions and perspectives, political opinions, and in relation to oppression, and share with us how you understand the meaning of feminism now after we have read about it and discussed it a bit more. Has your understanding of the term "feminism" or "feminist" shifted, and if so, how? Did anything surprise you or stand out to you and why?

Please write at least two paragraphs. If you would like to comment on another student's post, you are welcome to, but it is not a requirement for this assignment.

This is DUE by the time your normal section would end on Friday 10/6. Add your response in a comment below this prompt.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/515799019/today-s-feminism-too-much-marketing-not-enough-reality


http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a21728/feminism-political-commitments/