Dates designate the day on which readings will be discussed in class and the due dates of assignments. Dates and assignments are subject to change. All readings must be annotated to receive credit.
| Week | Class | Date | Assignment |
| 1 | 1 | Mon 1/27 | Welcome! Introductions & blog sign up. |
| Framing Texts: An Introduction to Audre Lorde & Black Feminism | |||
| 2 | Wed 1/29 | Poetry Foundation, “Audre Lorde” & Lorde, “A Litany for Survival” Post a blog introducing yourself to the class. Comment on one other post. In class: continue going over syllabus & review close reading | |
| 3 | Fri 1/31 | Collins, “The Politics of Black Feminist Thought” (1-19) & Lorde, “Power” In class: Review close reading | |
| 2 | 4 | Mon 2/3 | Film: A Litany for Survival (available online). Come prepared to discuss one important moment or idea in the film that struck you as particularly interesting or important.In class: Review blog instructions & co-author community guidelines |
| Wed 2/5 | Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” & Lorde, “Love Poem” & “Coal” Blog posts and comments | ||
| Sisters, Killjoys, and Genealogies of Intersectionality | |||
| 5 | Fri 2/7 | Lorde, “Introduction,” “Poetry is Not a Luxury” & “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” in Sister Outsider | |
| 3 | 6 | Mon 2/10 | Lorde,“The Master’s Tools,” & “Age, Race, Class, and Sex” in Sister Outsider & & Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality” Blog posts and comments |
| 7 | Wed 2/12 | “An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich” in Sister Outsider, Poetry Foundation, “Adrienne Rich” & Rich, “Diving into the Wreck” Blog posts and comments | |
| 8 | Fri 2/14 | Continue discussion of Sister Outsider | |
| 4 | 9 | Mon 2/17 | Lorde, “The Uses of Anger,” in Sister Outsider and Ahmed, “Feminist Killjoys and Other Willful Subjects” Blog posts and comments |
| 10 | Wed 2/19 | Lorde, “Scratching the Surface,” “Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface” & “An Open Letter to Mary Daly” in Sister Outsider | |
| Pleasure Week | |||
| 11 | Fri 2/21 | Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic” & brown & Page, “The Legacy of ‘Uses of the Erotic’” (37-52) in Pleasure Activism Blog posts and comments | |
| 5 | 12 | Mon 2/24 | Brown, “Introduction” (2-18), “Who Taught You to Feel Good?” (21-25) & “Love as Political Resistance” (59-63) in Pleasure Activism |
| The Cancer Journals | |||
| 13 | Wed 2/26 | English Club Sandwich Seminar, 12:30-1:30 Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge | |
| 14 | Fri 2/28 | Lorde, “Introduction” in The Cancer Journals, Carroll, “Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go,” & Rabin, “Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy” | |
| 6 | 15 | Mon 3/2 | Lorde,“Breast Cancer: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience” in The Cancer Journals (24-54) Blog posts and comments |
| 16 | Wed 3/4 | Lorde, “Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis” in The Cancer Journals (55-77) | |
| Zami | |||
| 17 | Fri 3/6 | Zami (Beginning-21) Blog posts and comments | |
| 7 | 18 | Mon 3/9 | Zami (22-80) |
| 19 | Wed 3/11 | Zami (81-115) Blog posts and comments | |
| 20 | Fri 3/13 | Zami (116-142) In class: Collaborative close reading | |
| SPRING BREAK MON. MARCH 16-FRIDAY MARCH 20 | |||
| 8 | 21 | Mon 3/23 | Zami (143-end) |
| Lorde as Teacher | |||
| 22 | Wed 3/25 | Lorde, “Poet as Teacher” & archival teaching materials (1-14, 18-34) | |
| 23 | Fri 3/27 | Lorde’s teaching poems (“The Classrooms,” “blackstudies,” “The Bees,” “Teacher”) Blog posts and comments | |
| 9 | 24 | Mon 3/30 | Davidson, “Introduction” & Savonick, “Afterword” to Structuring Equality In class: Continue discussion of teaching |
| 25 | Wed 4/1 | About HASTAC, Mckenzie, “The Ethical Social Network,” Cohen, Dwyer, Evola, White, “Technology and the Sexualization of Young Women: Lesson Plan” In class: Introduce student-led lesson | |
| Lorde in Germany | |||
| 26 | Fri 4/3 | Wilder, “Audre Lorde’s Berlin,” Schultz, “Audre Lorde in Berlin,” & Lorde, “Berlin is Hard on Colored Girls” Blog posts and comments | |
| 10 | 27 | Mon 4/6 | Film: The Berlin Years (available online) Individual lesson plan due in class In class: guidelines for successful collaboration |
| Student-Led Lessons | |||
| 28 | Wed 4/8 | Co-working day: group lesson plans | |
| 29 | Fri 4/10 | PROF OUT OF TOWN – SPEND CLASS PERIOD WORKING ON GROUP LESSON PLAN | |
| 11 | 30 | Mon 4/13 | FLEX DAY – SNOW |
| 31 | Wed 4/15 | All materials for lesson due. Each group meets with prof. to go over homework & in-class plans. | |
| 32 | Fri 4/17 | STUDENT-LED LESSON 1 | |
| 12 | 33 | Mon 4/20 | STUDENT LED LESSON 2 |
| 34 | Wed 4/22 | STUDENT-LED LESSON 3 | |
| 35 | Fri 4/24 | STUDENT-LED LESSON 4 | |
| 13 | 36 | Mon 4/27 | STUDENT-LED LESSON 5 |
| 37 | Wed 4/29 | Lab day: recap blog posts | |
| 38 | Fri 5/1 | Complete hard copy drafts of recap blog posts due in class for peer review | |
| 14 | 39 | Mon 5/4 | Lab day: recap blog posts Complete draft of recap blog post emailed to prof. by 5 pm |
| 40 | Wed 5/6 | Lab day: recap blog posts | |
| 41 | Fri 5/8 | Recap blog posted to HASTAC.org by class In class: presentation and celebration! |
Final course reflection due via email by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, May 12.
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