Feminism

For our end-of-semester 360 event, I'd like to really focus in on Monsoon and Benaifer's methods of close listening and talking, though not necessarily in a typical, vocal way. As I mentioned, Kristin and I discussed the ways in which our portraits of our Camphill partners represent a visual form of close listening. Similarly, I think the self-portraits we're continuing to work on demonstrate a very close listening and tuning into our own faces and current states of being. An optimal event would pull all of these forms of listening together, perhaps offering an audience a variety of listening formats.

For the three classes following Thanksgiving, I would like to look deeper into a couple of the theory pieces, in order to better understand what I might use as a lens for the upcoming web event. I'm a fan of theory, but don't generally feel confident with it until I've spent at least two class periods working through it in a group--I find it easy to get lost in theory, thinking I understand it, and later bringing it to class and learning I had no idea, in reality, of what it was discussing. I think I have a pretty good grasp of Mohanty and Nnaemeka's pieces, but would feel much better woring on my web event if we spent another class on both of them.

After our discussion on thursday we were interested in Gloria Steinem's view on transgenderism so Rosea and I looked up articles about her. We were confused because Gloria Steinem has been portrayed as a very progressive woman who is well-educated and heavily involved with gender issues in the U.S. We found an article that directly addressed what was brought up in class :

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/10/02/op-ed-working-together-over-time

gendering in persepolis

-she return to iran, interaction with customs “sister” and “brother”— non-offensive way to tell people to fall in line; brings familial relations into it, equalizing? aggressive? passive aggressive..

discussion of misgendering, how it can be aggressive/microaggressive. 

power dynamics of terms of endearment. 

* what particular contribution can the genre of the 

http://jezebel.com/4chan-is-why-feminist-is-winning-the-time-poll-of-words-1657927072

UGH IS THE ONLY COMMENTARY NEEDED.

Like others who have already posted, Satrapi’s discussion of the veil has been very interesting to me. Within the first few pages I was, like smalina, reminded of a cartoon I saw a few years ago. Here it is: