Wednesday, October 8, 2014

two feminist elders from the Women's Liberation Movement and more: our novel & immigration feminisms, and what we will do on Tuesday! Prepare yourself!

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Hear bell hooks talk about internalized oppression and Gloria Steinem agreeing and disagreeing with her about many feminist issues: a great conversation that illuminates a lot about the folks of the 70s women's movements. Enjoy!



http://new.livestream.com/TheNewSchool/Forever-Young-bell-hooks-Gloria-Steinem/videos/64181039

• You will want to have watched the WHOLE video above by the end of the class. Even better if you watch it all now (and the Q&A at the end is really wonderful too!) and watch it again when you are writing your final Learning Analysis (which is Assignment 4).

• Katie is right now listening to one of our course texts, Octavia Bulter's novel (a fictional work, in this case science fiction without aliens) Parable of the Sower. (It is available in print, as ebook such as for Kindle, and as an audiobook too! Katie listens to it, after having read and reread it many times, because she has eye problems and listens to books whenever possible.)




You might want to start reading Butler's book now too, especially if you like to read novels slowly. On the other hand, you may find yourself unable to put it down! It is exciting, emotional, reflective all at once.

In any case, WHENEVER you read it, you will find many echoes in it of life for various folks around the world right now, even though it takes place in the future. As you read it, you might consider what these are, how they compare with your own life and lives of folks you know about, all the time remembering that Butler always says she is trying to mix things up, and not just represent one "real" story in fiction, but many emotions and possibilities all tangled together in, sometimes, new ways.

This morning, Thursday 9 October 2014, I was struck with resonances between Butler's book and a radio show on why people are immigrating to the US from El Salvador today. You may want to listen to it as you read the book, especially if you want to know more about many people's lives, both similar to and different from your own. Our class is a diverse one, and we may wish to share experiences and concerns with each other.

The radio program is here: http://wamu.org/news/14/10/09/listen_reporter_armando_trull_reflects_gang_violence_in_el_salvador

It is part of a series of programs on immigration and you can find them all here: http://wamu.org/immigration




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Tuesday, 14 October – The Art of Protest
• Read Reed Intro, Ch 1-2, and look over the whole book as an event itself!
• Examine Reed’s book website: http://art-of-protest.net/tvreedhome.html 
• Check out his teaching site: http://libarts.wsu.edu/english/TV%20Reed.html 
• Look at his cultural politics resources: http://culturalpolitics.net/about 

What sort of “art” is protest? How do social movements create culture? Which social movements do you know the most about? Which ones would you like to learn more about? Which arts have engaged the feminist issues you care about most? How do you know? How is women’s studies involved?



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EXAMINING A BOOK AS AN EVENT! 

FreewriteHow is a book an "event"? what could that possibly mean? 
Work in pairs: share ideas from freewrite and make a list between you of possible ways a book is an event. 
Pairs share with another pair: which of the ways a book could be an event can you illustrate from Reed's book specifically? Pick the best example you four can work out. 
Each group of four choses a spokesperson for the whole group to name and very very briefly explain the best example you chose. Each other person names a social movement that comes to mind during this discussion! keep a list while you are talking! you will need to have checked out Reed's website links above to do this! 

= Each group of four has a spokesperson for whole group.
= But everyone in each group names a social movement, and takes responsibility for thinking in terms of movements during your four person group discussion. 

Everyone in the class will say something! prepare yourself to make this fun even! (what is the best way to do that, for you? write that down before class as a time capsule to your future self for assignment four). 

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► 2:57► 2:57SNCC Freedom Singers and the Civil Rights ...
SNCC Freedom Singers and the Civil Rights Movement ... Freedom Songs The Music of the Civil Rights ...► 5:38► 5:38The Black Panther Party - YouTube
A tribute to the Black Panthers. In Oakland Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panthers in ...
"'Panther Baby,' From Prisoner To Professor," on TELL ME MORE from NPR News, 4 March 2012: "Jamal Joseph was a 15-year-old honor student when joining the Black Panther Party. He later faced a 12-year sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary for helping fugitive Panther members. Behind bars, he taught a theater group, and now he teaches the arts at Columbia University. His new book is part of Tell Me More's Black History Month memoir series."  Read the transcript, hear the interview here.  ► 2:01► 2:01Poetry Everywhere: "What Kind of Times Are These ...
Adrienne Rich reads her poem "What Kind of Times Are These. ... 5 poems by Audre Lordeby ...► 3:53► 3:53SPARCGreat Wall of LADonna Deitch ...
1976-Present: The Great Wall of Los Angeles 1/2 mile long Mural/Education Project is one of Los Angeles ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWGTMSYA7g
SPARC: Great Wall of LA: Donna Deitch historical short film
Uploaded on Aug 8, 2011
1976-Present: The Great Wall of Los Angeles 1/2 mile long Mural/Education Project is one of Los Angeles' true cultural landmarks and one of the country's most respected and largest monuments to inter-racial harmony. SPARC's first public art project and its true signature piece, the Great Wall is a landmark pictorial representation of the history of ethnic peoples of California from prehistoric times to the 1950's, conceived by SPARC's artistic director and founder Judith F. Baca. Begun in 1974 and completed over six summers, the Great Wall employed over 400 youth and their families from diverse social and economic backgrounds working with artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds of community members.

Music "Black Man" by Stevie Wonder ( • • )
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLzIsJqxC5I
Uploaded on Sep 2, 2008
A tribute to the Black Panthers.
In Oakland Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panthers in 1966 with a ten-point platform for addressing racial and economic inequality in America.
http://www.bobbyseale.com
Edited by: Mateo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQapdNY-F4
Poetry Everywhere: "What Kind of Times Are These" by Adrienne Rich
Uploaded on Mar 30, 2009

Adrienne Rich reads her poem "What Kind of Times Are These." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/

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  1. The Freedom Singers Perform at the White House - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhafyI6-Bp0

    Feb 12, 2010 - Uploaded by The White House
    The Freedom Singers perform "(Ain't Gonna let Nobody) Turn me Around" at the White ... You need Adobe ...
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