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Here it is! :) 

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“The advantage of speaking about ecologies rather than societies is that it reminds us how our societies are intertwined with a broader natural world that they draw on to sustain themselves, that they are affected by, and that they affect”(Bryant). What constitutes ecological intelligence? I propose it is realizing the importance of “ecological intersectionalism”. Granted intersectionalism is a word we made up in ESem, it is very useful in fully painting the picture that it is necessary to acknowledge that something isn’t an entity of its own.; everything is interconnected in some way.

One aspect of this film that shocked me was the fact that women’s work in the home, the work that sustains life for an entire nation and raises the workers of the future, is not counted in the UNSNA. However, the income created by child sex slavery IS counted, because it brings outside money into the national economy. This statistic to me is exemplary of the blatant disregard and invisibility of women’s domestic work and one of the many severe costs this invisibility has. I wonder where else in the world this pattern exists (sex slavery valued over work in/near the home), because I’m almost certain it is not exclusive to the Philippines. 

For my paper I want to focus on the intersection of fat and disability. For my main text I want to use Disability gets fat. I want to first go through the connotations of the words fat and disabled and how both of those terms are generally accepted as negative. I also want look at the similarties of social stigma. I want to question what it means to be disabled by fatness and how being fat is viewed as an easily cured disease. Im thinking about including feminism if I could see the essay that was in Kristin's book about disability and feminism in order to show that interesction becuase I think being a fat and a woman brings different issues to light than being a man. 

Wasn't sure if I had to put this here AND in the google drive, but I guess I'll do both.

Intersectionality is all over Good Kings, Bad Kings. From Joanne, who has a lot of class privilege but gained that through being disabled to Jimmy, who does not have very much class privilege at all and is a person of color, but is able-bodied. In fact, one of the major intersections that I noticed was between class, ability, and agency. bridgetmartha mentioned age as something that forced dependency for the youths in ILLC. Class is another aspect that forces that dependency, however. For example, Brendan is trapped in his home (when he visits his family) because they live in an apartment on the 3rd floor that is not wheelchair accessible at all. He mentions his brothers or sisters have to carry him up and down the stairs and they don't always want to.

I think I would like to do an ethnographic account of the die-in/march happening at Bryn Mawr's campus and on the Main Line on Monday versus the marches happening in Philadelphia. I will be taking notes, pictures, and videos to document this experience. I believe that I could do a close reading of how the Main Line residents react, who the march is made up of, how accessible/inaccessible these protests are. I would like to look at how these experiences affect the construction of students at Bryn Mawr's identities (both students of color and white students) I think that this semester campus environment has shaped how many students interact in the contact zones of our classrooms and living environments.

I watched a Spoken Word performance called "God is Gay." It is a poem about the hypocrisy of religious people who say hateful things about gay people. The person who wrote the poem is a white cis male christian gay man. I'd be interested in looking closely at this poem along with an essay from "Queer Religion" which is a book written by Donald Boisvert. I'm hoping to find an essay that features somebody not as privileged, in order to talk about how power and privilege (probably drawing from the essay that Riva ewrote to talk about power) change how people deal with intersectional identities.