Category Archives: Blog Prompts

By 11 pm on Thursday June 16, please post a 700-word min. response to BOTH of the following prompts (700 words total is fine, but feel free to write more if you want): 1. Juana María Rodríguez traces the recent … Continue reading →

By 11 pm on Thursday June 9, please post a 600-word min. response to the following prompt: 1. How are mobility and immobility at work in the prison-industrial-military complex? What connections do you see between the juvenile justice system critiqued … Continue reading →

In class we discussed the contagion narrative: this narrative starts with an origin and spreads rapidly [or thought to be rapid spreading] through human bodies.  As Cathy described, it is like a Disney Movie:  Villain and the “bad disease” [in … Continue reading →

As a politics major, I love getting my daily dose of news in the morning.  This morning, Good Morning America had a story that is the inspiration behind my post for this week. We’ve been discussing visual surveillance in class … Continue reading →

By 11 pm on Thursday May 26, please post a 700-word min. response to  the following prompt: Open topic–your response should engage with at least 2 texts we read this week, and the themes we’ve discussed in class around visual … Continue reading →

By 11 pm on Thursday May 19, please post a 700-word min. response to  the following prompt: David Eng, Jasbir Puar, Margot Weiss, and Mattilda all critique the ways that privileged forms of queerness increasingly align with rather than resist … Continue reading →

By 11 pm on Thursday May 12, please post a 700-word min. response to BOTH the following prompts (700 words total is fine, but feel free to write more if you want): 1. Introduce yourself–what are you hoping to get … Continue reading →