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For Wednesday, please read "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood" by James Baldwin and create an x-page. For your jigsaw reading,...

Apr 7, 20221 min read

Uses of the Erotic

For Monday, Please read "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" by Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider and create an x-page. Also read...

Apr 6, 20221 min read

Creative Non-Fiction

For Wednesday, lease read the second chapter of Counterstory by Aja Y. Martinez and create an x-page. You'll also want to read the first...

Apr 4, 20221 min read

Fiction Mentor Text

For Wednesday, please read Blue-Skinned Gods pages 159 to 206 AND Bryan Washington's Visitor. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01...

Mar 20, 20221 min read

Reading as a Writer

As we continue reading Blue Skinned Gods, make sure that you are adding to your strategies toolbox as well as your daily x-pages. It...

Mar 19, 20221 min read

Introduction to Narratives

For Wednesday please read “Queer Narrative” by Anne Mulhall from The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies and create an X-page JIGSAW -...

Feb 28, 20221 min read

Sacrilegion Final section

For Wednesday, please finish reading Sacrilegion and create an x-page. You'll also want to make sure you have added some strategies to...

Feb 22, 20221 min read

Sacrilegion Part 5

For Monday, please read Section 5 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson: Pages 46 - 62 and create an x-page. Don't forget to continue to...

Feb 15, 20221 min read

More Poetics!

For Wednesday, please read section 4 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 33 - 45 and create an x-page. Also bring to class a copy of...

Feb 9, 20221 min read

More poetry!

For Monday, February 14, please read Section 3 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson, pages 19-31, and create an X-page Also watch this video...

Feb 8, 20221 min read

Considerations

For Wednesday, please read the introduction to Nepantla: an Anthology: Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto. Also read Section 2 of...

Feb 2, 20221 min read

Queer Poetics

For Monday, please read Section 1 of Sacrilegion by L. Lamar Wilson Pages 1 - 8. You'll want to use your "Reading as a Writer" lens as...

Jan 31, 20221 min read

Privelege and Positionality

For Wednesday please read “Waking Up to Whiteness and White Privilege” by Ann Gleig https://www.ucf.edu/news/waking-up-to-whiteness-and-w...

Jan 26, 20221 min read

Crip and Transnational Cultural Production

For Monday, please read “The World-Making Potential of Contemporary Crip/Queer Literary and Cultural Production” by Robert Mcruer from...

Jan 24, 20221 min read

History of Oppression

For Wednesday, please read “There is No Hierarchy of Oppression” by Audre Lorde from Homophobia and Education: Council on Interracial...

Jan 21, 20221 min read

Intersectionality

For Monday, please read “Race-ing Homonormativity: Citizenship, Sociology, and Gay Identity” by Roderick A. Ferguson from Black Queer...

Jan 15, 20221 min read

MLK Day X-page

For Martin Luther King Day, please create an X-page for some MLK content that you engaged with. For a link to TCU activities/resources...

Jan 12, 20221 min read

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

For Wednesday, please create an X-page for “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” from Sister Outsider by Audre...

Jan 11, 20221 min read

Poetry is Not a Luxury

For Wednesday, we'll be reading and responding to Audre Lorde's "Poetry is Not a Luxury" from Sister Outsider. If you prefer to listen,...

Dec 16, 20211 min read

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Writing

Final Portfolio

On Monday you will be pitching your final CNF project to the class. This should be a very short pitch (between 30 seconds and a minute)...

Apr 20, 2022

Response Groups

Make sure you have uploaded/shared your flash fiction piece with your response group. You can find your response group members on TCU...

Mar 19, 2022

Link to Portfolios

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ls9MzzPxj95FKBYi-VmYKONmKdIp9vZ5jg1wJPQ938g/edit?usp=sharing

Feb 28, 2022

Zines!

Don't forget to bring 10 copies of your poetry zine on Monday! These often take more time to make than you might think, so start cutting,...

Feb 22, 2022

Publication Opportunity

eleven40seven is TCU's undergraduate journal of the arts. Their submission deadline is February 25th, 2022. Click on the link below for...

Feb 15, 2022

Poetry Workshops!

TCU is hosting KB Brookins this weekend. There will be a live event and a zoom event. If you are looking for some help on your poetry,...

Feb 8, 2022

The Erotic as Power

If you haven't already, you might want to read Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." https://fredandfar.com/blogs/ff-b...

Jan 31, 2022

Alok!

If our heavy reading has you a little lost and confused, or you are just looking for a little more, I couldn't speak more highly of Alok,...

Jan 26, 2022

Women-identified women

You may be struggling with Lorde's use of the term women-identified women. It can be difficult to understand, and in some ways is very...

Jan 19, 2022

Time

Time might not be as fixed a concept as many believe it to be. For me, at the intersection of oppression I see a complex conversation...

Jan 13, 2022

1984 - Audre Lorde

We listened to this poem several times in class and created an x-page together. We also wrote about why we read and write.

Jan 10, 2022

Creating an X-page

Throughout the course we will be writing in our notebooks as a means of concentration, of accessing other parts of consciousness, of...