While reading bell hooks’ article about love ethic, I found myself highlighting a lot of excerpts: “awakening to love can happen only as we let go of our obsession with power and domination”; “living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty and a commitment to sustained bonds over material advancement”; “many prophets of […]
http://www.today.com/parents/boy-wants-haircut-look-his-friend-trick-teacher-t108795 The article posted above is a viral story that I saw frequently across my Facebook feed all of last week. It is about a young boy who asked his parent if he could get the same haircut as his best friend so that his teacher could not tell them a part. The “giant” twist […]
Yogurt commercials have a reputation of marketing their product to women for weight-loss and probiotic control, so seeing a Dannon Oikos yogurt commercial marketed toward men is a new change, although the commercial relies heavily on semiotics that make the yogurt seem more “masculine.” By using a football player as the spokesperson, instead of the […]
I found bell hooks’ “Value: Living by a Love Ethic” to be incredibly relevant to our current political context. In this piece, hooks claims that “Awakening to love can happen only as we let go of our obsession with power and domination.” Thus, by this statement, hooks sets up a dichotomy in which power is a […]
After watching (A)sexual and Married to the Eiffel Tower, I found myself questioning what it meant to be a member of the queer community. Because I was already aware of the struggles and erasure the asexual community experiences within the queer community, the ideas in (A)sexuality seemed to be easier for me to grasp compared […]
“Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection (“I love my mother”) to pleasure (“I loved that meal”). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment. Love can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—”the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another”. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards […]
Both of the films (A)Sexual and Married to the Eiffel tower aim to bring to light two non-traditional (those people are less likely to have heard of) queer identities. Asexuality has become more accepted over time but the documentary itself seemed to focus on the roots of the community forming. Seeing how essentially one man […]
In our discussion this past week about love and theories about love, I was immediately reminded of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony acceptance speech from last year- “Love is love is love is love…”. The speech was very clearly politicized, as the Tony’s were right after the tragic events in Orlando. “Love is love” seemed to reflect specifically what […]
Alexis’ Lothian talk on “Queer Geek methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities” was incredibly interesting and applicable to the discussions that we have been having in class. I thought that Lothian did a great job of showing how queer theory is applicable to life, through the medium of digital platforms. Individuals also […]
In her writing on what she describes as a “love ethic,” bell hooks argues that if society adopted love as its base setting, if each individual understood her role within the larger collective conscience and responded to it by treating all people, both domestically and globally, with love, then a radical transformation would occur. hooks […]
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