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In this male dominant society, men always have many false assumptions toward women.
“There was something in your eyes that let me know I could talk to you.”
“I could tell by your eyes how you felt. I could smell you wanted me.”
“Bitch, if you don’t wont a man to speak to you, you ought to stay in the house.”
I enjoyed the first portion of our class today, in the Quita Woodward Room, reviewing Friere's argument, digging deeply into Aayzah's questions about the (necessary?) bias of the teacher, and what it means to see your students as "the subject of the process of learning...as a creative act." (Does this preclude having a political agenda, or necessitate one?) And I enjoyed reflecting together on the operation of hegemony both in our classroom and throughout campus, especially during the recent town hall meeting; for one record, which I promised to share, see what one of my 360'ers wrote up: Discussion in TGH on Thursday.
After skimming these articles about microbiome, as I am not an expert in this area I could not find it interesting. However, I searched more about microbiome and found an article suggesting a curious idea. It says that since there are numerous numbers of microbiome in our bodies or outside of our bodies and each person carries different ones even within a family, it might be able to use as a tip to distinguish people like a fingerprint or track people like a GPS. It says that it might enable police to find where criminals are. As I recognized that microbiome could be information of myself, I came to be interested in it. There could be plenty of merits to our lives, but at the same time I am afraid of what experts in this area will find and choose what to do.
I would like for us to discuss the last section which talks about fostering ecological intelligence to lead to revitalizing the local cultural commons. I think I understand on a basic level what the author means by the idea of cultural commons and its connection with ecology, but I realize the idea is much more complex than that. The text says "revitalizing the cultural commons enables people to be less dependent upon a money economy that too often exploits the most vunerable people as well as the environment that future generations depend on". How is this revitalization accomplished? What role does education and higher education have in understanding and implementing these ideas, and does that make these goals less attainable?
Experimental Essay #2
The Commodification of Justice Movements (“Working” Title)
Here's the invitation from Lucy Gleysteen (a former student of mine @ BMC), which I shared with you last week, asking if any of you might be interested in internship with Prison Health News, a free, quarterly newsletter that publishes health information for people who are currently incarcerated. Prison Health News is a program of Philadelphia FIGHT which aims to address the intersecting crises of mass incarceration and HIV/AIDS. Most of their articles are written by individuals who are on the inside; however, they also publish an article or two every issue that is written by people on the outside. Currently they have over 4000 incarcerated subscribers. Their work aims to highlight and share the creativity and wisdom from folks in prisons and jails across the country.