ENGLISH 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Invisibilia, Genderqueer, Antifeminism
Mikaela Bradley
English 325
6/10/18
Reading Reflection
This eeks essas ere far fro tpial as the ere audio ased podasts, rather
than a typical written essay. I have to say I find the audio pieces to be even more compelling
than the majority of written essays because you can hear a deeper level of emotion and sound
that ou ould otherise hae to iagie ith ritte essas. Both I, I, I. Hi ad A British
Mx. Tape used arig leels of souds, spoke ord, ad usi to reate a laered
eotioal effet. I, I, I. Hi tells two different stories about loss. One about the loss of a
oes husad, told fro the perspetie of her ad her daughter ad aother aout the
loss of a ouples lielihood: their eehies. At first thought, it seeed raz to e that
someone would compare the death of a husband to the loss of bees, but throughout the
podcast the speakers drew many comparisons between the two losses, leading me to believe
they are more similar than I originally thought. I think my favorite part was when the wife
eekeeper ad ido ere goig ak ad forth laig theseles eause it shoed e
that as humans we tend to think that we did something to deserve a tragic loss, but, in reality
they are unavoidable. I think Invisibilia did a good job of seaming the stories together and
telling about the loss of the livelihood of these two sets of people, while also drawing the
uiersal truth of the idea of I ad lae assoiated ith loss.
Whe I listeed to A British M. Tape, I istatl otied the use of lyrics and song at
the beginning, with words that supported the message being shared. This is just one of the
advantages audio has over paper writing as it gives more depth. The podcast talked about the
UK hoorifi M. ad ho this geder-neutral title was meant to be non-binary and another
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