I have started reading Their Eyes Were Watching God and I think that there will be a lot to explore in this book. I’m only 60 pages in but very excited to keep reading. I would like to read more of what Anne recommended to me to pursue, like Mules and Men, “How It Feels to be a Colored Me,” and “Looking for Zora.” I will read these as well and what I find in these essays and book I hope will guide my journey into Hurston’s novel.

For me, creating a rough timeline will be useful:

12/6 - finish Their Eyes Were Watching God

12/8 - read supplementary readings

by 12/9 - meet with Anne to discuss possible paths for writing

12/12 - turn in final essay

Vivian O’Bannon – Notes for Essay 11

Hello!

Here's what I'm thinking about doing:

Topic: "From Crazy to Conscious" Seeing Black Women and the Highlighting their societal contributions

In my last paper, I talked about intersectionality and how black women worked to bring the concept to light. Throughout this project, I want to look delve deeper into the "feelings of crazy" or "inconcievable" actions (i.e. Sethe killing her child) to unpack the consciousness and humanity present within those actions. 

www.codeofthefreaks.com

Code of the Freaks uses cinema as a platform to discuss the multiple and
varied manifestations of disability oppression--from social attitudes to
institutionalized violence against disabled people. 

Code of the Freaks is a collaboration between:
Carrie Sandahl (Director of Bodies of Work and the Program on Disability
Arts, Cutlure, and the Humanities at the University of Illinois at
Chicago), Susan Nussbaum (author of Good Kings Bad Kings), Salome Chasnoff
(director and filmmaker of Beyondmedia's The Empowered FeFe films and The
Brink of Survival) and Alyson Patsavas (Lecturer at the University of

Three main points of "Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene:"

1) "There is no distant place anymore;" we need to stop looking at the Earth as something so disconnected from us and start taking ownership of and action against the damage we have done (2). We cannot look at the state of the Earth objectively, because of humans' presence in climate change. We are directly connected to, and depend on, this planet, and it is connected to and depends on us, and we have to recognize this and start acting like it. The Earth has become an unstable, "active, local, limited, sensitive, fragile, quaking" being because of us (3).

Please don't feel compelled to watch them all!  I just got kinda excited and threw clips into this post willy nilly...

Sorry, fam!

Matrix Reloaded (the albino twins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjQkP1kpUGQ 

Princess Bride (the guy is named "the albino..."  He is never given another name): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBaDcOBoHFk 

Da Vinci Code (the albino assassain named Silas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX4XxUjKTdo

By midnight tomorrow (Tues, Nov. 29), please post another short report, describing the progress you are making on your independent study: what texts you’ve settled on, what questions you’re asking of them, how you might go about exploring them, what deadlines you’re setting yourself for reading-and-writing. If you haven't already met with me once to set up such guidelines, please make an appointment to do so within the week. Please also be in touch if you'd like to make a second appointment with me to explore some of these questions further.