Apr 20*

READING: Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night

DUE: Close Reading.

Alternate Text:  Kwa, The Walking Boy

 

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  1. EVENT Tue, April 25, 2017
    7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    “Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
    Joint Visiting Artists and Scholars and Graduate Lecture Series Event
    Introduction by Nicole Archer
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway’s latest book, Staying with the Trouble, offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and its inhabitants. Haraway will discuss why learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth might provide a means to build more livable futures. Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.”

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble-making-kin-in-the-chthulucene-tickets-31267079677?aff=es2

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  6. I can’t figure out how to post this on one of the more recent schedule pages, but as part of my presentation guidelines on my grading rubric, I said that I would have my poem done by 8 pm the following night, so I’m going to post it here! This poem is about my mental health surrounding my gender identity.

    From Underground

    Every trigger fires
    from spaces that we o[still]nce [regard]ed
    as merely a toothache

    G-d only knows the scary places
    you have seen in order
    to the survive solitary
    But this act of survival has been
    shorting a rainbow

    It’s not about being pretty or gritty
    It’s about trying to find ways to avoid
    the tossing and turning
    the living your life as fiction
    It’s a science of the soul
    It’s an ambiguous it

    You’ll have to take active measures
    to become your own image consultant
    to reinvent the wheel that has become
    an island within you

    Wellness is an uncovering of secret selves
    the truth is that you can’t enjoy everything
    but life doesn’t have to be a holdup,
    and you’re allowed to lower the gun from your head

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