ART 80F Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Audre Lorde, Lorde, Ageism
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Doing things a little different, no roll-call, going over the syllabus, no meta-lecture," just jumping straight into discussion. Audre lorde quotes and discussion (paraphrased) i am a black lesbion woman expected to present one aspect and make that encompass the whole. Explanation: society tends to try to compress people into a single label, but this sort of thinking is self-destructive and dehumanizing. Yet even the form our creativity takes is often a class issue. Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. Explanation: different people have access to different forms of media to express themselves. In america, this norm is usualy defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, It is with this mythical norm that the trappings of power reside within this society. Explanation: even color-blindness often assumes that some norm exists, and often, it is this norm.
