by Brian Bergen-Aurand Throughout the day on Thursday, poet and teacher Terrance Hayes gave a series of talks on the campus of Bellevue College. His topic was “Social Justice for Black Lives,” and he addressed it through a morning presentation before faculty, students, and staff; a later question and answer session moderated by English professors […] … Continue reading
Author Archives: Foreign Influence
Fifteen Disability Memoirs: A Chronological List
by Brian Bergen-Aurand The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1903) Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic (1976) The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (1980) The Me in the Mirror by Connie Panzarino (1994) The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Frida Kahlo and Carlos Fuentes (1995) Gary … Continue reading
The Elusive Invitations of Essay Films (1988-2016)
by Saravanan Mani The films I list here are tentative, incomplete attempts or “essays” that reflect on a theme while initiating conversations with narrative cinema. These films are fictional and non-fictional explorations that start in specific narrative premises but venture beyond those beginnings to interrogate the film-making process through the making of film. While such … Continue reading
Reckoning–13/20 March 2017
13/20 March 2017 Morning En Route to the Hospital Snow wafts off the little lake along route 66, momentarily encasing the car in a trance of glitter Live with your puny, vulnerable self Live with her ~Maggie Nelson, Something Bright, Then Holes The past two weeks have been consumed with close readings of several articles … Continue reading
Essay: It is Time to Talk About Basic Income, Again —from the South Seattle Emerald
by Brian Bergen-Aurand I’m now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective—the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) 47%. By some predictions, 47% of […] … Continue reading
Review: Movie Discussion: The Handmaiden (2016) by Park Chan-Wook —from Queer Book & Movie Club (Singapore)
Juan, Anne, Yisheng, and Aaron showed up for the screening. We discussed the ambivalence towards lesbianism depicted in the film. It’s generally a positive portrayal although the sex scenes appear to be fetishized for a male heterosexual audience. While the film inherited this flaw from the book, we wondered why there is no positive portrayal […] … Continue reading
Essay: “Much More Than Just Music”: Ways of Learning in the Krip-Hop Nation–from Hawk Hopes Blog<<Change is a Collaborative Act
Originally posted on Hawk Hopes Blog: KU Special Education:
Leroy Franklin Moore Jr. is a Black writer, poet, Hip-Hopmusic lover, community activist, and feminist with cerebral palsy. Born in 1967, Moore is a native upstate New Yorker now living in and working from California. In a recent phone interview with Sorcha Hyland for Hawk Hopes Blog Moore reminisces…
Essay: On Not Teaching Night & Fog to University Students Who Don’t Have Time (For the Holocaust) —from jewish philosophy place
Something very strange happened in my American Judaism class this past week. At the start of the semester in relation to I forget what I got into an argument with my students (a good natured one I’d like to think) about kitschy Hollywood Holocaust movies. Ella was not the only student who defended The Boy […] … Continue reading
Reckoning–6 March 2017
6 March 2017 I first tasted electricity in 1959, when I was six. In accordance with my desires at the time, I was exploring the house. Under the couch I found a fresh 9-volt battery. Having no idea what it was, I touched the terminals to my tongue and was appalled to feel the vile … Continue reading
Review: Get Out — from the South Seattle Emerald
by Reagan Jackson I hate horror movies. They linger. Long after the screen goes black I am reliving every cringe-worthy moment. So when I saw the preview for Get Out, I was like wait: Is this a horror movie or is this racism? Is this a horror movie about racism? Oh hell no. I definitely […] … Continue reading
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