WMST 621: genealogies
REQUIRED materials:
• create your own art or design or making KIT of materials. bring to first class to demonstrate, share, get ideas about.
• #LETUSBREATHE Collective: http://www.letusbreathecollective.com
• THE SELF CARE PROJECT: http://theselfcareproject.org
• ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: https://www.alliedmedia.org
REQUIRED books and transmedia required to be bought or borrowed or shared for reading, listening, analyzing:
=Handouts on the first day:
• Lothian. 2016. "Choose not to warn." Feminist Studies 42/3: 1-14.
• King. 2016. "Microaggressions as Boundary Objects." Australian Feminist Studies 31/89: 276-282.
The first set of three books we shall all study collectively. The second set of pairs you will choose either one or the other of the pair to know best. The other is then a recommended text you will learn about in teams.
SET ONE: everyone will study collectively the following:
• McKittrick, ed. 2015. Sylvia Wynter: On being human as praxis. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780822358343 Kindle ASIN: B00SYCI03A
• Shotwell. 2016. Against Purity: Living ethically in compromised times. Minnesota. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780816698646 Kindle ASIN: B01N3Z4NA1
• Stallings. 2015. Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black sexual cultures. Illinois. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780252081101 Kindle ASIN: B013RXS0K8
SET TWO: in pairs. choose one to know best, the other becomes recommended, both to be studied in teams. They work as companions and contrasts.
EITHER
• Marcus. 2015. Self-Care for Activists. Mocana. ASIN BO18W816FW Free on Amazon. Kindle ASIN: B018W8I6FW
OR
• Neff. 2015. Self-Compassion. William Morrow. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780061733529 Kindle ASIN: B004JN1DBO Audible.
=Companion website: http://self-compassion.org
EITHER
• Haraway. 2016. Staying with the Trouble. Duke. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780822362241 Kindle ASIN: B01KO84OPE
OR
• Tsing. 2015. The Mushroom at the end of the World. Princeton. Amazon.
Hard ISBN: 9780691162751 Kindle ASIN: B00WAM15DC
• Górska. 2016. Breathing Matters: Feminist Intersectional Politics of Vulnerability. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, The Department of Gender Studies. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Download Free here: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A930676&dswid=-5901
OR
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart: technoemotions and other posthuman entanglements. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS). Download Free here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-120195
EITHER
• Roelvink. 2015. Making Other Worlds Possible. Minnesota. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780816693290 Kindle ASIN: B00TY17I4C
OR
• Wilson. 2015. Gut Feminism. Duke. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780822359708 Kindle ASIN: B01569VG6Q
EITHER
• Schulman. 2016. Conflict is not Abuse. Arsenal Pulp. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9781551526430 Kindle ASIN: B01LZXGXDH
OR
• Wekker. 2006. The Politics of Passion. Columbia. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780231131636 Kindle ASIN: B007EWKA7U
RECOMMENDED:
• Bowker 2015. Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. MIT. Amazon.
Paper ISBN: 9780262528085 Kindle ASIN: B01CKSVVJI
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"Brené Brown has become a sought-out teacher in all kinds of settings, at every level of leadership, on this ancient, basic truth that had been lost from our common vocabulary for generations. It all began with research she did at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, where she’s a professor:"
"I always ask a very simple question to people. I just say, think of the last time you did something that you thought was really brave or the last time you saw someone do something really brave. And I can tell you as a researcher — 11,000 pieces of data — I cannot find a single example of courage, moral courage, spiritual courage, leadership courage, relational courage, I cannot find a single example of courage that was not born completely of vulnerability. We buy into some mythology about vulnerability being weakness and being gullibility and being frailty because it gives us permission not to do it." ...I started my research just very coincidentally six months before 9/11. Over the course of the last 12 years, I have seen fear absolutely run roughshod over our families. And I have seen us go to these crazy lengths to protect ourselves and our children from the uncertainty of the world today. I’ve not only seen that through my lens as a researcher, but certainly experienced it as a parent, and as a college professor. I see students come to us who have never had experiences, real experiences, with adversity. And how that shows up is hopelessness. One of the most interesting things I’ve found in doing this work is that the wholehearted share in common a profound sense of hopefulness. The literature on hope, very specifically C. R. Snyder’s work from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, shows that hope is a function of struggle."
"I think that’s one of the most stunning sentences that I saw in your writing."
"And that hope is not an emotion. Hope is a cognitive, behavioral process that we learn when we experience adversity, when we have relationships that are trustworthy, when people have faith in our ability to get out of a jam."
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What Will The Theme Of Your Life Be In 2017?
"A theme is a common motivational thread or pattern that runs through a life story. The three themes detailed below—communion, agency, and redemption—have all been linked to well-being."
http://www.dailygood.org/story/1475/what-will-the-theme-of-your-life-be-in-2017-kira-m-newman/
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What is your Activist Superpower? From Everyday Feminism:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/whats-your-activist-superpower/
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Hope things are off to a good start!
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