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I voted for poetry selections and Born into Brothels. Below is my rationale:

Poetry selections: "Lifting Belly" and "Canzone," although interesting, were incomprehensible texts. Becky proposed a really productive exercise of posting poems (with authors staying anonymous) on Serendip and discussing the "gender" in poems. We only briefly discussed gendered language in relation to an article we read, so this would introduce the class to a new form of feminism? I think everyone enjoyed Spivak's purpose to "invaginate" her writing....I would love to explore this notion of gendering language and if you would, too, then VOTE for Poetry day!

Born into Brothels: Exploring the red district in Calcutta can be a way we can explore identity and feminism(?) in children. The content here would productively parallel the "Breast Giver" and Jashoda's story of detaching herself from her body as prostitution, too, treats the body as a distant object from the self. As we analyzed Jashoda's emotional/psychology attachment to to her "job," I look forward to understand how, if ever, children become somehow attached to/ dependent upon prostitution. If you are interested in mind-body distinction, enjoyed "Breast Giver," find introducing yourself to different cultures fascinating and /or want to see identity exploration/ forceful societal regulations upon children.....VOTE for BIB.