FEM 2110 Lecture 6: Black Lives and Black Culture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2110
• Professor: Kathryn Trevenen

Document Summary

Assignment discussion: the marrow thieves: assignment review notes. Fully explain your analysis (fully develop and identify the themes/arguments) Blindness is being equated with incompetence in the video shown in class (mardi. Features people giving their testimonies on being queer. Are living the lives they want to live. Can choose how to love and how they want to be loved. Don"t have the same pressures that straight people do. Gives more room for discussion about what one desires. Allows for them to just come together and bond based on that simple fact. Form coalitions and fight against the intolerance towards them together. More positive representation of the queer community. Usually show tragic stories: black lives/black culture. We live in a time of intense conversation and activism about anti-black racism and the impact both of culture made by black people, and the impact of popular culture on race and racism.