WMST 488K: Questioning Human, a senior seminar spr 17 (UG course)
http://questionhuman.blogspot.com
REQUIRED materials:
REQUIRED websites to explore, analyze, read, listen to:
• #LETUSBREATHE Collective: http://www.letusbreathecollective.com
• THE SELF CARE PROJECT: http://theselfcareproject.org
• ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: https://www.alliedmedia.org
REQUIRED reading or listening:
=Handout first day:
• Lothian. 2016. "Choose not to warn." Feminist Studies 42/3: 1-14.
=Free online:
• Marcus. 2015. Self-Care for Activists. Mocana. ASIN BO18W816FW Free on Amazon.
• Svedmark. 2016. Becoming Together and Apart: technoemotions and other posthuman entanglements. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Informatics. Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS). Download Free here: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-120195
REQUIRED books and transmedia required to be bought or borrowed or shared for reading, listening, analyzing:
• Brown. 2015. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements.
AK Press. Paper ISBN: 9781849352093 Kindle ASIN: B00USBMIOC Audible Audio: ASIN: B01DPSB46M Amazon.
=Companion website: http://octaviasbrood.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ1B_BEsYuw
Xenogenesis Suite: A Musical Tribute to Octavia E. Butler: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2587152
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower: the Concert Version: http://publictheater.org/tickets/calendar/playdetailscollection/utr-2015/parable-of-the-sower/
• Kirksey. 2015. Emergent Ecologies.
Duke. Paper ISBN: 9780822360353 Kindle ASIN: B0173979J0 Amazon.
=Companion website: http://www.multispecies-salon.org/emergence/
• Chen. 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect.
Duke. Paper ISBN: 9780822352723 Kindle ASIN: B00B9AQC2K Amazon.
RECOMMENDED transmedia resources, readings, speculative activisms, worldings:
• Bateson. 2016. Small Arcs of Larger Circles.
Triarchy. Paper ISBN: 9781909470965 Kindle ASIN: B01M4N4Q7F Amazon.
• De la Cadena. 2015. Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds.
Duke. Paper ISBN: 978-0822359630 Kindle ASIN: B0159YMBJY Amazon.
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http://www.onbeing.org/blog/courage-is-born-from-struggle-bren-brown/8601
"Becoming Wise is an inquiry into the mystery and art of living. Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Stitcher, and SoundCloud. And it's even a New York Times bestselling book! Find out more at onbeing.org/becoming-wise. "
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"Brené Brown has become a sought-out teacher in all kinds of settings, at every level of leadership, on this ancient, basic truth that had been lost from our common vocabulary for generations. It all began with research she did at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, where she’s a professor:"
"I always ask a very simple question to people. I just say, think of the last time you did something that you thought was really brave or the last time you saw someone do something really brave. And I can tell you as a researcher — 11,000 pieces of data — I cannot find a single example of courage, moral courage, spiritual courage, leadership courage, relational courage, I cannot find a single example of courage that was not born completely of vulnerability. We buy into some mythology about vulnerability being weakness and being gullibility and being frailty because it gives us permission not to do it." ...I started my research just very coincidentally six months before 9/11. Over the course of the last 12 years, I have seen fear absolutely run roughshod over our families. And I have seen us go to these crazy lengths to protect ourselves and our children from the uncertainty of the world today. I’ve not only seen that through my lens as a researcher, but certainly experienced it as a parent, and as a college professor. I see students come to us who have never had experiences, real experiences, with adversity. And how that shows up is hopelessness. One of the most interesting things I’ve found in doing this work is that the wholehearted share in common a profound sense of hopefulness. The literature on hope, very specifically C. R. Snyder’s work from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, shows that hope is a function of struggle."
"I think that’s one of the most stunning sentences that I saw in your writing."
"And that hope is not an emotion. Hope is a cognitive, behavioral process that we learn when we experience adversity, when we have relationships that are trustworthy, when people have faith in our ability to get out of a jam."
===What Will The Theme Of Your Life Be In 2017?
"A theme is a common motivational thread or pattern that runs through a life story. The three themes detailed below—communion, agency, and redemption—have all been linked to well-being."
http://www.dailygood.org/story/1475/what-will-the-theme-of-your-life-be-in-2017-kira-m-newman/
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What is your Activist Superpower? From Everyday Feminism:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/01/whats-your-activist-superpower/
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Holding tension.... it's tricky! http://www.couragerenewal.org/democracyguide/v15/
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