Discussion for Wednesday

     I was not going to be here for my discussion leading day because of a funeral but because Professor McGee cancelled class I shall post my questions for the essay and the poem.

 

Here is another picture of Gloria Anzaldua, Jackie also posted a picture.  

1. On page 317, Gloria says "...that schools brainwashed into my writing... How to approximate the intimacy and immediacy I want."  

This made me think about the structure that us as students have been forced to follow for almost all our academic lives.  How do you think women, or anyone, get around that zombie like form of writing that we all have to do in order to get a good grade? If writing is something that is supposed to be free, how do we get to that stage of freedom and away from the regular lines that we must write at school?  Writing in the real world doesn't really have a rubric.

Audre Lorde 

2. Cancer is such a huge thing in our world today. Cancer is obviously a killer of the people we love and a threat to everyone else every day for us.  When it comes to support groups and walks and charities and such, how does uniting help this cause? What makes women joining together such a strong way to fight something that bring us down?