Happy Tuesday! I hope this week finds you safe, healthy, and connected to your friends, family, and loved ones despite the isolation of social distancing.
You all did such a great job with the discussion questions for Zami lecture #1! If you haven’t had a chance to read through your classmates’ comments, I highly recommend it. You all had fantastic insights into Lorde’s experiences at school (Keira, Emily, Marian, Cody, Kara, Katie, Kelly, Mikey, Gabby), her friendships with The Branded (Sam), her increasing racial consciousness (Savannah, Alaina), the politics of silence (Kianna, Claudia), and her use of erotic language (Megan, Gabriele, Alice).
Zami lecture #2 (81-142) is ready to go! Please make sure you listen and take notes.
Instead of discussion questions for this lecture, I ask that you do this additional short reading from Vice on “The History of Lesbian Bars,” which will be a major theme in the final lecture. Optionally, if you have time, there is a 25 minute video embedded in that article, “Searching for the Last Lesbian Bars in America.” In the final lecture, we’ll talk about the importance of bars as political spaces for people in marginalized groups and subcultures to form networks and communities.
To summarize: no discussion questions for this lecture. Read about lesbian bars instead. Lecture #3 with discussion questions will be posted on Thursday and comments will be due by 4 pm on Friday.
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