self explanatory

“One when women’s unwaged work is acknowledged and valued will women’s demands and needs be valued” (Waring xxvii)

- Ruth Todasco, International Women’s Count Network

Here I am posting the link to the Prezi presentation that depicts a portion of the research and information that was gathered by Rosa and me.

http://prezi.com/jxk_cf5wb9-c/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

For my intersectionality essay, I’d like to do a close reading of a couple episodes of The L Word, in order to look at how the character of Bette grapples with her many, complicated identities—and, in turn, how the media represents intersectional characters. Bette is a very proud and vocal lesbian, as well as a biracial (often white-passing), upper-class, able-bodied individual. The relationship between these identities really come into play when she and her partner, Tina (who is white), decide to have a child. The couple argue over whether or not it makes sense to use an African-American donor, if Tina is carrying the child (Bette argues that it is, because that way, the baby would look like both of them).

Sun. 12/07:

(ENGL) By 5 p.m.: Posting (tagged #lasthurrah): your contribution to the 'zine.

(ICPR) Post on Serendip by 10 PM (this is your last Serendip post for this class!)

One post, but three overlapping options. Choose one or combine them. 

1) Read the prompt for the final essay on intersectionality (below) and begin to sketch out a possible approach to this prompt  

2) AND/OR reflect on intersectional identities/systems in Good Kings, Bad Kings in preparation for class on Monday

3) AND/OR reflect on the article "Unspeakable Offenses"

Here's a very interesting example of the effect that environment has on identity!
Are you descended from wheat-growers or rice-growers?
(turns out it's not geology but agriculture than lies @ the back of all social difference ;)
See Why Are Some Cultures More Individualistic Than Others?

It took me a couple of tries to begin to understand the terms and main ideas in the essay "Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privelage: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design" by Lois Weis and Michelle Fine. I wasnt able to form an opinion until about page five, when Weis and Fina paraphrase Gloria Ladson Billings, essentially saying that inequality gaps in education are a call for investigation into the relationship between deficit and privelage. Weis and Fine look at the effects of the global sphere on local spaces and are interested in how, and why the elevation of one sector leads to the plight of another.  They say "we want to encourage designs that trace how widening inequaltiy gaps penetrate lives and ...