Feminism

I think that Hummingbird's idea of documentary about our experience would work well. I thinking that listening has been one of the main focal points throughout our 360 and if we could bring that to the community I think it would be very benefitial. I think the documentary would be a lot of work but would be accessible to students who may not be able to attend the event.

I'm seeing "listening" as the theme for this semester. Listening to our classmates. Listing at Camphill. Listening to ourselves, our bodies, our emotions. Listening outside of ourselves. I'm also seeing the representation we did as a kind of listening. I'm wondering whether there's a way to incorporate that into our final event in some way? Perhaps a meditative or mindfulness activity at the beginning or end of our "showing" to invite our guests to be present?

This is a clip of my notes from the museum that I wanted to share if anyone is interested (based in our conversation at the end).

Also, I would like, at some point, if we could discuss this experience more than the space in the Mütter itself; the added people made it difficult for me to be fully present. But we have a lot to do so I don't expect us to have that time.

• I like bridgetmartha's idea of presenting maybe one or two portraits (partially because I missed all of this last week that Riva was here and thus am really behind on said portraits).
• I think the writing something alongside them could be alright, but I don't know how this would be presented?

I would find it more helpful to move forward rather than cover former texts. While I think that we could have rich discussions on texts, and I am interested in what we’ve read so far, I really enjoy having a breadth of ideas. For once, like, ever, I’d like to have just a bit more theory. I don’t have specific suggestions... Maybe reading more critical feminist articles like you might find in anthologies might be nice to move forward?

I'd like to echo the desire for an exhibit of the artwork and other work that we did during the class. We've done so much work, and such constructive work, that we should show it to our campus! We should pick and choose what we want to show, as we probably don't want to show everything, though the Camphill portraits would be the most constructive to show. One of the things Anne pointed to, the Eco-Literacy 360, had an exhibit component that was up for most of a semester last spring, in the Library--is there some space where we could do something similar?

Like many of my peers posted earlier, I would be interested in getting more of a grounding in feminist theory. The idea of reading some of bell hooks' work would be lovely, and fascinating! I would be interested in reading more of bell hooks, personally, as she is a renowned thinker in the field. In addition, I would love to discuss the Nnameka article further, as I feel that we only have a basic conceptual understanding of nego-feminism. I'd especially love to discuss nego-feminism further in the context of our longer readings, that is Persepolis and Americanah.