graces for flexibility and strength!

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• "Differential consciousness requires grace, flexibility, and strength: enough strength to confidently commit to a well-defined structure of identity for one hour, day, week, month, year; enough flexibility to self-consciously transform that identity according to the requisites of another oppositional ideological tactic if readings of power's formation require it; enough grace to recognize alliance with others committed to egalitarian social relations and race, gender, sex, class, and social justice, when these other readings of power call for alternative oppositional stands." (Sandoval 2000: 60) [image: http://lynnrandolph.com]

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BIG QUESTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF OUR COURSE!

·       LOOK UP ZANDT, MCGONIGAL, BERGER AND RADELOFF ON THE WEB, BRING IN PRINT OUTS

• Who are these people?
• Who am I?
• How do we fit into social structures?
• How are we affected by inequalities & oppression?
• What privileges keep us from understanding realities?
• What is identity politics, and what does it mean in US feminism?
• How does our everyday lived experience offer ways of understanding of systems of oppression?
• How is women's studies an agent in these understandings?
• What are 1) some histories OF intersectionality as a tool for such understanding, and 2) how can intersectionality be used for knowing more about feminist histories?

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LINKS THAT HELP US FIGURE THINGS OUT:

How Stuff Works: What is social identity? (popular uses)
Portal:Feminism (Wikipedia's feminist resources dynamically edited)
All Politics is Identity Politics (progressive political uses of term, electoral)
Identity Politics: (Wikipedia entry) 

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Tuesday 24 September, Transforming Yourself & Caring About It All

·       Berger & Radeloff: forward, preface, intro, ch1

·       LOOK UP ZANDT, MCGONIGAL, BERGER AND RADELOFF ON THE WEB, BRING IN PRINT OUTS

·       LOTTERY TODAY FOR POSTERS OR PAPERS FOR WORKSHOP #1: HALF THE CLASS DOES EACH

Some feminist philosophers talk about what they call “personal care-abouts” in knowledge making. What are Zandt’s and McGonigal’s personal care-abouts as they reveal them to us? How can you use this class for your personal care-abouts? How can you make the class projects fit into those care-abouts? How will you partner with others to support each other’s care-abouts? Begin workshop #1 project today with your partner: freewriting, brainstorming, googling, scheduling time together.

Thursday 26 September, Prototyping: an Identities poster, agency & structures

·       LOGBOOK ONE DUE!

·       YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN WEBSITES FOR ZANDT, MCGONIGAL, BERGER AND RADELOFF BY NOW, BE READY TO CONSIDER THEIR POLITICAL IDENTITIES ALONG WITH YOUR OWN

·       McGonigal folks should finish the book up by today (Zandt folks should have finished already)

Our third “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS!

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send to katiekin@gmail.com (NOT KING BUT KIN!)
file name: YOURLASTNAME 300 proto3
subject header: YOURLASTNAME 300 proto3

(I have two classes doing these so don't forget class NUMBER!)

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