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week Eleven. November 2

Link for this webpage: http://www.funkdafied.org/week-11.html
I. Welcome Back!

II. Reminders
  • We have one 1-week unit left! Begin thinking about the final book that you will read.
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III. Christina Presents!
Next and last presenter: Chris

IV. Christina Presents . . .

Please note that next week is the last RR of the semester.  Plan to share what you wrote aloud for RR10 to your colleagues next weeks in class. November 16 will be the last day that you can submit any missing work from the semester.

V. Preparations for Black Rhetoric Circles

Our First Tasks Today
  1. Click here for an overview of the final project, Black Rhetoric Circles.  This is not due until the last day of class, but you can begin percolating ideas in your head now.
  2. Click here and fill out this sign-up sheet.  You can't overlap books with someone else.
VI. GOOGLE DOC DISCUSSION: 
By today, you have read Collin Craig and two other texts from the website for this unit.  Take any one of these texts and write at least a paragraph on this linked google doc (click here). 
  • First, tell us what you learned from/thought about the text that is most significant.  Feel free to cut and paste str8 from your RRs
  • Second, tell us HOW this text helps us define Black Queer Rhetoric.
​"On the eve of finishing this essay my attention is focused not on how to rework the conclusion (as it should be) but instead on news stories of alleged racism at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). It seems that three black board members of this largest and oldest AIDS organization in the world have resigned over their perceived subservient position on the GMHC board. Billy E. Jones, former head of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and one of the board members to quit, was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "Much work needs to he done at GMHC to make it truly inclusive and welcoming of diversity.... It is also clear that such work will be a great struggle. I am resigning because I do not choose to engage in such struggle at GMHC, but rather prefer to fight for the needs of those ravaged by H.I.V." (Dunlap).

​This incident raises mixed emotions for me, for it points to the continuing practice of racism many of us experience on a daily basis in lesbian and gay communities. But just as disturbingly it also highlights the limits of a lesbian and gay political agenda based on a civil rights strategy, where assimilation into, and replication of, dominant institutions are the goals. Many of us continue to search for a new political direction and agenda, one that does not focus on integration into dominant structures but instead seeks to transform the basic fabric and hierarchies that allow systems of oppression to persist and operate efficiently…."
                                                                                 ~Cathy Cohen

Vii. connections

The Founding of the Black Lives Matter Movement 
1:48-4:45; 7:15-19:10
all of this video
What do Garza's words mean to you?  What do Cullors's words mean to you?  How might these activists be the "students" of Cohen? How would you describe this as Black Queer Rhetoric?

VIiI. Closing discussion

How would you connect Black Feminist Rhetorical Impatience and Black Queer Rhetoric?