Experience Set 3 AT A GLANCE
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BOUNDARY OBJECTS THAT MATTER:
Collins, p. 204: "The central challenge of intersectionality is to move into the politics of the not-yet. Thus far, intersectionality has managed to sustain intellectual and political dynamism that grows from its heterogeneity. This is immensely difficult to achieve when faced with the kinds of intellectual and political challenges we have explored in this book. But just because something is difficult does not mean that it's not worth doing."
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Collins, p. 193: "Throughout the book, we have aimed to deepen this working definition of intersectionality in ways that encompass its heterogeneity and dynamism yet clarity its core principles. We settled on this definition because it is BROAD AND ELASTIC ENOUGH to encompass the diversity within intersectionality
yet provides some guidance on some important BOUNDARIES around intersectionality."
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From Haraway & Wolfe interview, p. 206: "CW: 'One of the fascinating things to me about the "Manifesto" -- and I am not exaggerating when I say this -- is that I'm not sure I can think of any single document in my academic life that has been taken up more variously, let's just say (laughs), by MORE DIFFERENT AUDIENCES (just staying within academia), for more different purposes, than the "Cyborg Manifesto." And in that way, it's a document with a different kind of life in many ways from the "Companion Species Manifesto." And that's also a product of when the piece was published and famously tracing -- you're right, at that moment -- those BOUNDARY BREAKDOWNS that you identified."
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FREEWRITES
1) What did you learn from other people's work you interacted with in Workshop 1 that you have not yet had a chance to acknowledge?
2) If your best friend had been/was there to see YOUR work, what would they have learned from it that you are proud to have shared?
3) What advice would that best friend give you NOW that will make your work for Workshop 2 better in ways that YOU value?
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Experience Set Three culminates in Workshop 2: everything we do until then is to create our projects for this second Workshop. Start now:
• Worlding: keeping our planet going, caring for flourishing and justice
Tuesday 15 November:
For Worlding you will create either a paper (with enough handouts for each member of the class) or a poster, and document it with digital pics (which determined by lot earlier, whichever one you did not do for Change is Happening). You may work on these individually or with a partner.
With the help of Haraway & Collins (you must show how you worked with these texts), and referring to Gibson-Graham & Keating, and also to two of the recommended texts, you will analyze feminist processes of worlding as activist actions. You will either begin from • 1) the most urgent feminist issue you care about, exploring activist practices that might speak to it; or you will begin from • 2) your own most valued activist actions, and analyze their possibilities for the feminist values you most care to embody. ALWAYS make a point of connecting projects to class readings, activities, and discussions. ALWAYS use a standard model for citation and bibliography, even on posters. You may also want to use the web to follow-up or look in greater detail at the kinds of worldings feminisms explore today and ways all of these are promoted in popular and scholarly media.
During the first part of class on workshop day, we will meet during class time to share our projects, displaying posters and handouts on the walls of our room, walk and talk one-on-one with each other, share questions, observations, excitements! In the second part of class time we will continue to work with the energy generated by our interactions, collectively coming up with reflective analysis and more ideas for what comes next!
Full credit for this assignment requires: • having begun work several weeks ahead of time, • writing and postering in several drafts, • displaying paper & handout or poster during worshop and • actively participating in interactions and reflections, • turning in electronic copies of poster pics or paper and handout to Katie’s gmail account, • and documenting each piece of the assignment as completed in your logbook, which must be turned in electronically with everything else by the evening after the workshop for credit. If for any reason whatsoever you miss any piece of this, you will need to document that in your logbook, with explanations, and perhaps notes of any discussions you have with Katie about it all. If you miss any workshop, you will need to arrange with three fellow students your own little mini-workshop, where you all meet together outside class to share your work and discuss it, and you write a two-page report on your meeting and discussion.
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