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Writing in Nature - ENGL 374 Final Project 2020
No full textWe are the English 374 Literature and the Environment class at the University of Puget Sound! We want to thank you for visiting our website and hope that you enjoy and absorb the different experiences, art, and knowledge we poured into here. We also hope our pieces will help you see the environment and your place in it in a different, more personal way.
This website is our class\u27 collaborative final project for the Fall 2020 semester. This assignment aims to connect theories of environmental literature with our various interests and experiences with the environment, broadly speaking. Additionally, an integral part of the environment is interacting with a community of some sort. This website is the place where such community engagement can begin to occur, without any form of exclusion or judgement.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us in this class are scattered - from Washington to California to Saipan. Such spread give us a unique opportunity to further expand this idea of community and think about it more critically. Although Puget Sound and Tacoma hold special places within our hearts, it\u27s important to remember the communities we come from and how that impacts how we see and interact with the environment/climate change as a whole.
This class has shown us that privilege is a big part of being able to participate in climate activism and make long term changes to lessen our carbon footprint. Poor people, especially those of color, have the hardest time with this because their communities are the first to be impacted and have the least amount of support to get out of it. Going zero waste is not as accessible as many influencers make it seem, so it\u27s important to be aware of the harm we personally add to the climate crisis, while still being sensitive to other\u27s current situations and limitations. This space is not meant to guilt or shame, but rather inform and validate our fears/concerns and hopefully spread the word of the importance of being educated in environmental studies.
We hope our collection encourages you to deepen your connection to nature. We read and discussed fictional/nonfictional texts such as The Overstory by Richard Powers, which discusses humans relationships with trees and how culture/societal norms influence that, Iep Jaltok which shows the climate crisis through a native lens, and The Water Cure which connects the climate crisis with the feminist movement. These works gave us insight into how different types of people see and deal with climate change and reveal why it\u27s such a difficult case to crack. Just as important to our understanding of the crisis and possible solutions was our exposure to theoretical essays like Slow Violence by Rob Nixon and Toxic Discourse by Lawrence Buell, which explain important theories in the environmental studies that give us the tools to approach this issue in a more critical way. It also gives us information that is not made known to the everyday person. Being able to take a class like this is its own privilege, so we hope publishing creative works and insight into what we\u27ve learned in ENGL 374 on a free platform is a start to close the gap between who is allowed to have this life altering information
Wetlands Magazine, Issue 17
Get PDF7. CROWS OVER CALIFORNIA Theo Meranze (art by Lucy Curtis) 8. BOOBS Quin Severo 9. THE PROM I NEVER HAD Brenna Sweeney 10. I AM LOOKING FOR HIS BROKEN PORCELAIN GIRL Kaya Heimowitz 11. UNTITLED Lucy Curtis 12. ON VASHON ISLAND Daniel Pollock (art by Lydia Thompson) 14. BUTTERFLY Hannah Lee 16. COWBOYS AND MEN Daniel Pollock 20. COLLAGES Odhan Mullen 24. HOME Aaron Porter 26. TREE Lucy Curtis 27. THESEUS’ CARGO Ari Vergen 28. INSIGNIFICANCE Lucy Curtis 29. FRAGMENTS (2020) Theo Meranze 32. THE VIVISECTION ROOM Katie Hetterly 33. FLIGHT 828 Aaron Porter 34. HANDS Quin Severo 35. CREATURES AND THE STAGE Ari Vergen (art by Lucy Curtis) 39. WARNING: HANDLE WITH CARE Hannah Zinn 40. FOR HER (A HAIKU) Alice Noble HANDS Lucy Curtis 41. TALK POSTMODERN TO ME Bismikado 42. HOW TO GET UNSTUCK Anonymous 46. THE PATRIARCH SAYS: WE’D LIKE THE CONVERSATION TO BE BINARY Mae Lovett 47. GET THEM OFF Anonymous 48. LA RESISTENCIA SOLIDARITY DAY Nola Thury 49. BIG LOVE Bird Hudson 52. QUEER SELF PUDDING Lenora Yee 53. ON CONTAINING MULTITUDES Alice Noblehttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/wetlandsmagazine/1013/thumbnail.jp
The Girl House Project: Narratives of Girlhood and Building a Site of Analysis
Get PDFThe Girl House is a tiny home: a 14’x7’ traveling house on wheels, a mobile art installation, storytelling vehicle, and a collective biography. Inside the house are stories, memories, reflections, poems and prose about girlhood, growing-up and learning sex within rape culture. This thesis locates the physical work of the Girl House Project in the theoretical landscape of girlhood studies. Situated in foundational gender theory work by Judith Butler this project understands gender as a constructed identity, and girlhood as a moment of gender production. The house, grounded in feminist methodology, is a collective biography: an expansion on how we comprehend the “girl identity” and an effort to illuminate the production of girlhood as one rooted in sexual injustice, an experience that is curated reproduced and maintained within the performance of gender and the reality of coming-of-age.
My work introduces four categories of analysis derived from themes weaved throughout the narratives of the project: 1) Orgasm and Sexual Awakening: Pleasure as a site of analysis, 2) “I Didn’t Say no.. But I Didn’t say yes either” Passivity and the normalization of trauma, 3) Letters to my teenage self- reflections on Girlhood, consciousness and reclamation, and 4) What does reclamation look like? This paper analyzes the narratives submitted to The Girl House Project and argues that they illuminate the political and social potential of storytelling and reveal sexual injustice as a unifying facet of the girl identity
LMDA Virtual Conference Handbook, June 2020
Get PDFThe 2020 conference theme is Crossing Borders Pt. 3: On the (Digital) Threshold. Table of contents include: Annual General Meeting, National Endowment for the Arts, LMDA Virtual Conference 2020, Social Media, Values Statement, Land Acknowledgement, Registration, Live Conference, Live Conference Platform, Oral Simultaneous Interpretation, Schedule, Synchronous Content, Asynchronous Content, Sponsors, and Conference Committee. The handbook is in English and Spanish
Against Nature: Imperial Law and Homosexuality in India
Get PDFIn this essay, I will explore India’s Section 377, as a case study, to analyze the effect and legacy imperialism has had within former colonial territories, such as India. In order to do so, I will draw from literary sources to first characterize male homosexual relationships within India during pre-imperial rule. Then I will transition into the second part of the essay, in which I will discuss the motivation and inception of Section 377 under British ruling; to this section, I will also be contrasting the more official imperial mandates with the histories of European writers and travelers who, upon seeking out the “East” for sexual liberation, often had varying types of relationships with local men. In the third section, I will finish by discussing the legacy of Section 377 in modern times by focusing on the apparent inversion of roles, in which newly liberated countries adopt and reintegrate the imperial penal code into their own cultural identity, while also distancing themselves from the Western “import” of homosexuality (Gupta, 2008, p. 44). By doing so, I hope to highlight the significance of homosexuality in understanding the multiple sides of imperial power relations and histories
Crosscurrents: Fall 2020
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Engaging Teaching Dilemmas to Foster Culturally Responsive and Antiracist Teaching Practice
Get PDFThis special Issue of the Race and Pedagogy Journal features artist statements and images of projects created by Master of Arts in Teaching candidates in their master’s coursework focused on developing anti-racist and culturally responsive teaching practices
Cice Magazine, No. 8
Get PDFI am From... Operation Save: A Volunteer\u27s Reflection Big Girls Climb Too: Dismantling Exclusionary Outdoor Culture The Forgotten: Low-Income and Indebted at Puget Soundhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/cicemagazine/1007/thumbnail.jp