#Orlando
Author: Cherrie Moraga
Title: “La Guera”
Year: 2002
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
Originally published in 1979 (?) – before AIDS epidemic, end of Second Wave Feminism à starting to think about intersectionality
1948 – huge farming communities in Southern California
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
What does it mean to “pass”?
What does it mean to get to “choose” to claim anything other than white, heteronormativity?
What does it take to truly understand others? To empathize?
What does it mean to be privileged?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Anyone. Maybe more liberal perspective?
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Narrative.
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Personal narrative, poetry, memoir, etc.
- What problems and issues are posed?
Guilt of passing/ignoring culture/brownness
How to understand privilege and heternormativity – what it feels like to not be a part of that world
What it means to choose how you identify à to have a choice
How to be a feminist and live an intersectional life
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- Mother lived difficult life she did not want her kids to live à able to choose “anglo” life
- Life seemed easier passing for white
- Difficult to stand for different intersectionalities
- It is a privilege to choose identity
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Personal stories, memories back to feelings, connections to poems. Feel raw, real and emotional (ex: feeling like she doesn’t fit in at college, would not trust male gay friend, etc.)
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
“No one ever quite told me this (that light was right), but I knew that being light was something valued in my family…” (28)
To be away of others’ struggles that we don’t share is to acknowledge or give up your own privilege (30)
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
Society defines heteronormativity as privilege
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
Works – descriptions of mother, life experiences paired with Intersectionality discussion; understandable
Not – Did she feel guilt for not embracing culture? What truly made her feel like she didn’t belong? Worth discussing other perspectives to fully understand
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
| Heterosexist (33)
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Having to subscribe to specific gender stereotypes, roles, assumptions; “not woman enough” or “not man enough” |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
| Ntosake Shange
Audre Lorde
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Discusses ignoring identities (31)
Discusses internalized oppression (32) |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
x
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
See “key questions” and “what works for you?”
One sentence summary of reading:
How a lesbian, biracial woman reconciles her Intersectionality and learns to honor her identities, as well as understand her privileges.
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.)
Discuss privilege, what affords it. See pg. 30 for reminders of LGBTQ homelessness reading and AIDS reading.
Notes from class discussion:
- Focus on empathy
- Discussion of what it means to pass as white
- Intersectionality
Author: Evangelos Tziallas
Title: The new ‘Porn Wars’: representing gay male sexuality in the Middle East
Year: 2015
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
Post-9/11 – racialized and islamaphobic ideas about the Middle East
During time of gay marriage becoming legalized
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
How does pornography featuring different bodies – particularly Middle Eastern bodies – help promote racial and religious inclusivity?
What further steps need to be taken?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Gay men/those who have seen the films
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Film and historical analysis
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Analyzing film, introduction of historical knowledge
- What problems and issues are posed?
How Middle Easterners are stigmatized
How “pinkwashing” can commodify a place
Films still do not use Arab actors
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- Films do not use Arab actors, but it is a step that there are Arab portrayals (94) – looking for visibility
- Space – open desert, closed Lebanon, more accepting Israel – plays a part in sexuality
- Religious stereotypes exist (“the film challenges prevailing visions Americans have of Arabs and Muslims as uniformly homophobic and anti-sex” pg. 98)
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Films and their descriptions, interviews by directors
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
Assumes that this is a “first step” – at least there is visibility
Idea that space plays a part in sexuality
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
States define how public sex, sexuality, displays of affection can be
Israel may control its image – porn makes it look inviting
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
Work – understand visibility (“breadcrumbs” idea)
Not – the lack of push for more appropriate actors
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
| homophilic
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Lacking in diversity |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
| Michael Lucas
Bernsetin (unknown texts)
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Analysis of his pornographic films
Discussion of Orientalism |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
Orientalism and non-pornographic footage within a porn film pg. 97
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
What steps need to be taken? Why was this only the first step?
One sentence summary of reading:
Pornographic films can be used to fuel acceptance and intersections of cultures, though it can also be used to manipulate/flatter/change perceptions of an environment
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.)
Interesting to discuss how the religious generalizations, porn, images could play a role in understanding nightclub shooting
Notes from class discussion:
- Reminiscent of “The Celluloid closet”
- Where can people be open with their sexuality? i.e. desert
- Who was the Marlboro Man and what did he signify?
Author: Melissa Harris-perry
Title: To All the Straight Women Who Love Gay Men: Your Safe Space Is No Longer Their Safe Space
Year: 2016
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
- After Pulse nightclub shooting
- After gay marriage has been nationally legalized
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
Why is it not okay for straight women to inhibit gay male public spaces and call it a safe space?
Who is that space for?
How do you be an Ally?
How do you examine your own privilege?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Cis, straight, femme women (pg. 1)
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Narrative
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Personal discussion, historical references to past events, current day news
- What problems and issues are posed?
How cis, straight, femme women can forget who gay spaces are for, how to be an ally
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- “Not even gay public space is safe space to be gay” (2)
- Members of the LGBTQ community face more hate crime victimization than anyone else in the US (2)
- Intersection between queer and racial identities (2)
- Bad to forget, must check privilege (3)
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Historical knowledge, personal experience
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
Assumed that these women do not think about these problems
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
Society makes it okay to have the “gay bff” and treat them as safe, harmless – and out of way of harm
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
All Works – Argument that privilege in interacting with friends that are different than you needs to be checked, understood because otherwise you’re not being a respectful friend or ally
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
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None |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
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None |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
x
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
How do you check privilege? How does this benefit others?
One sentence summary of reading:
Friends – especially cis, white women – need to understand their privilege and help their LGBTQ friends be safe, and understand that they have limited safe spaces.
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.)
See questions
Notes from class discussion:
- Discussion of the “pet”-like relationship
- What it means to address/confront privilege
- Who does the gay bar belong to?
Author: German
Title: Lopez
Year: 2016
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
After Pulse nightclub shooting
After gay marriage has been nationally legalized
Before Trump election
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
How do we generalize religion?
How do you fight hate without hate?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Liberal reader
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Narrative with factual evidence
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Read news, religious facts
- What problems and issues are posed?
That hate is being used to fight hate
Islamaphobia is jumped to
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- Hate should not perpetuate more hate (1)
- Islamaphobia = scape goat (2)
- Religions are generalized (2)
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Pew Research Center surveys – researched facts
Personal knowledge
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
That hate does not lead to anything positive
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
Politicians point to Islamaphobia
Society needs to reexamine how it views PoCs, different religions
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
All works – does not want to be a part of more hate, just sad, wants improvement
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
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None |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
| Pew Research Center
Donald Trump, Twitter
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Survey against violence
Political sentiment |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
x
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
x
One sentence summary of reading:
One gay man’s perspective on how he does not want an attack on the gay community to mean that the attacker represents the true identity of a religion.
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.) x
Notes from class discussion:
– What is unifying?
Author: Steven W. Thrasher
Title: LGBT people of color refuse to be erased after Orlando: ‘We have to elbow in’
Year: 2016
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
After Pulse nightclub shooting
After gay marriage has been nationally legalized
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
What class is most of the LGBTQ community?
How does the community get back on its feet?
What was this situation represented in the media? Whose voice was hear?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Anyone
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Experiential, dialogue
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Some background research, in person experience/interviews/observations
- What problems and issues are posed?
People have to go back to work day after shooting, even if experiencing loss
How films do not portray true classes in LGBTQ community
How whiteness sells, including with white journalists
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- “Selling those covers often means selling whiteness” (6)
- How media portrays a perception (#GayMediaSoWhite) (5)
- Needed to be a reminder that this event was intersectional – gay and latino (3)
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Media, Twitter, interviews
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
There is a pricetag on media
Media shapes perception
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
Media shapes perception
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
All works – learning about class, intersections
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
| #GayMediaSoWhite
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Hashtag to highlight heternormatively, whiteness = commodified, “good”, in gay media |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
| Aaron Hicklin, Out Magazine
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Discussed how whiteness sells |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
x
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
x
One sentence summary of reading:
One gay reporter’s take on how the media covered the Orlando shooting, and who was listened to.
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.) x
Notes from class discussion:
- The intersection of class
- How does the media acknowledge intersections?
- What is commodified whiteness?
Author: David K. Seitz
Title: On Citizenship and Optimism
Year: 2013
Other bibliographic details:
- Where or what in time-space is the study’s object? What is the work’s spatial scale and scope?
Post-9/11
Middle of Obama second term
- What is/are the work’s key question(s)?
What do contradictions in interests mean?
How do you define citizenship?
What does it mean to be inclusive?
- Who is the announced and/or implied audience for the work?
Anyone
- What are the work’s structure and style?
Interview, more formal
- What method(s) does the researcher use, if noted?
Interview
- What problems and issues are posed?
How expectations may need to be lowered to “have a better chance at surviving our disappointments on behalf of a longer political goal” (5)
Need to be aware of contradictions
- What are the arguments? In other words, how does the writer use the theory, method, and evidence to propose answers (or make claims)? (List 3-5)
- Need to be away of personal contradictions (2)
- “you have feelings about citizenship, you have feelings about race, you have feelings about gender and sexuality” (2)
- Need political support (3)
- “inclusion matters’ (3) – need visibility
- What evidence does the writer use? Why do these examples (stories, visuals, graphs) stand out above others?
Citing president
- What ideas and/or assumptions serves as the writer’s guide to action?
That citizenship is related to everything
- What is the role of the external actors such as the state or institutions, and how are they defined?
Politics defines where and how a person can live
- What works for you? What does not? Why?
Works – change of expectations because you may be more pleased with results
Not work – confused about initial work
New Vocabulary
| Term | Definition (in your own words) |
| Neo-anarchisms
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Contemporary anarchists – anti establishment |
Significant Authors or Texts mentioned (list significant authors or texts discussed)
| Author/Text | Significance |
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x |
Black Boxes (sections you do not yet understand)
Description Page number(s)
Law and subjectivity 1
Questions (That occur to you as you read):
What does it mean to be visible?
One sentence summary of reading:
How citizenship can play a part in inclusion in terms of race, gender, sexuality and religion,
Freewriting (Recommended. A short, or long, response to what you have read focusing upon anything you would like.)
See questions
Notes from class discussion:
- Need to be aware of contradictions
- When do you need to change expectations?