A little update

I missed the Week 6 post, as it was around Spring Break, and I got confused as to due dates, and didn’t even have internet access over the break. I’ve made up for that post now, although you may have to scroll down or visit a previous page to find it.

For the Week 9 post, I basically forgot to do it, being under a mountain of work for my other classes. It’s also down a bit–some scrolling may be required.

The Week 10 (impact of slavery) post is on time, and should be right beneath this one.

Finally, I never had a chance to respond to a question about how I chose Audre Lorde as the subject of my profile from a few weeks ago. Fall semester 2007 I took a course, W St 369, called Queer Identities in Contemporary Cultures, taught by Professor Linda Heidenreich. It was a very enlightening course, in which we read, among others, Langston Hughes, and the interesting and lovable Tatiana de la Tierra. Near the beginning of the semester, we read an essay by Audre Lorde, as well as her famous work, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury.” I was fascinated by her insistence that words can change the world, especially for queer writers and artists struggling to establish their own space in a mostly hetero-normative society. I found Lorde to be a very righteous woman, however we didn’t spend enough time with her in class to discuss the more controversial aspects of her writing–specifically, the backlash of her attacks on white feminists, and other run-ins she had with her peers.