GAS Works

Notes Towards Day 25:
"My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own"

Jimmy Dale Gilmore,
"My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own"

the music suppliers are letting us down....!
so, from Anne: Jacob & Lily's "Ruby":
"Ruby don't go downtown, Ruby come in and stay.
It's a cold rain outside and your bed's a ways away....
Now no one's daughter your trying harder just to stay alive...
I 'm gonna stand right on this corner...

A Beginner's Guide to "No Homo"
and That's Gay: No Homo (via Karina)
Camr'on Speaks about NO HOMO (via eshaw)

Prince, Kiss (via holsn39-->
heterosexual but not masculine)

Lucinda Williams, What If (via holsn39)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Origin of Love (via Owl:
"our way of categorizing the world does not make
sense to the immense diversity within society")

Reading Notes on
Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide
for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

Music to get us in the mood:
Garth Brooks (via Owl): "We Shall Be Free"
and/or Lucinda Williams (via holsn39): "What If"
and/or The Distillers (via ebock): Seneca Falls...

To our new mood music (courtesy of Elephant and holsn39 and eshaw)

please sign up on board: which Bornstein book did you read=are prepared to "teach"?

Day 14: Intersections, Overlaps, Collisions

I. Coursekeeping
--naming
--mid-semester evals:
cantaloupe: let's be reckless, offensive, and offended
cristina: let's meet outside of class

sign-up for conferences about essay

--next week's assignments

the first chapter of Eli Clare's Exile and Pride is now posted on the ~annedalke page.

Selected Bibliography of Disability Studies Resources

Gender, Sexuality, and Disability

Victoria A. Brownworth and Susan Raffo, eds. Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability. Seattle: Seal Press, 1999.

Eli Clare. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation.  Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999, 2009.