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clarity

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 03/31/2014 - 8:32pm.

so i want to pick up on your saying that "it would be too simplistic to say “women @ BMC don’t speak their mind because of privilege”—even though I do think that is a very VALID explanation.  I literally ask myself this question all the time, but I do think that many people here do not speak their mind because of fear and/or a lack of clarity with themselves."

i'd like to talk some more about "clarity" as a value, and a possibility--AND its relationship to a politics of difference. maybe these two essays--Orwell, Didion and Prose Like a Windowpane, and Joan Didion's Why I Write-- plus what we read together last semester, those excepts from Doris Sommer's Proceed with Caution--would give us a starting place?

looking forward to tomorrow morning--
a.

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