Week 12 M 11/8 - Micronesia
Monday 11/7 1:30pm Zoom Class Discussion - Resilience practices and final projects
Wednesday 11/9 1:30pm Zoom Class Discussion - "Militarism & Micronesian Women's Activism"
Reading: excerpt from Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Undrowned
Reading: Teresia Teaiwa: "Microwomen: US Colonialism and Micronesian Women Activists"
Reading: Anne Perez Hattori "“Feminine Hygiene: The US Navy, Chamorro Maternity, and Gender Relations in Colonial Guam” in Colonial Dis-Ease (ch. 4, pp. 91-123)
Reading: Christine Taitano DeLisle: "Tumuge' Påpa' (Writing It Down): Chamorro Midwives and the Delivery of Native History"
Optional Viewing: 4.1 Project trailer
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No Laulima Forum this week.
Extra Credit: WGSS Colloquium with Dr. Monisha Das Gupta on Friday 11/12 at 12 noon
Monday 11/7 1:30pm Zoom Class Discussion - Resilience practices and final projects
Wednesday 11/9 1:30pm Zoom Class Discussion - "Militarism & Micronesian Women's Activism"
Reading: excerpt from Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Undrowned
Reading: Teresia Teaiwa: "Microwomen: US Colonialism and Micronesian Women Activists"
Reading: Anne Perez Hattori "“Feminine Hygiene: The US Navy, Chamorro Maternity, and Gender Relations in Colonial Guam” in Colonial Dis-Ease (ch. 4, pp. 91-123)
Reading: Christine Taitano DeLisle: "Tumuge' Påpa' (Writing It Down): Chamorro Midwives and the Delivery of Native History"
Optional Viewing: 4.1 Project trailer
********************************************************** Quiz RESCHEDULED *************************************************
No Laulima Forum this week.
Extra Credit: WGSS Colloquium with Dr. Monisha Das Gupta on Friday 11/12 at 12 noon
Final Project overview
Embodiment, Resilience Practices,
and More-than-human relations
Reading for Monday - Resilience and Beyond
We will read this following excerpt out loud in class as a prompt. To understand the emergence theory at play, read entire chapter 4 pp. 35-40
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Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
What are the intergenerational practices that generated dorsal fins in some dolphins and whales? What experience-based wisdom resulted in the ever-expanding spines and blubber of bowhead whales or the adaptation of sideways swimming river dolphins? What do the blue whales know that lets them fast all day and sing across the planet?
I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives. I am committed to the development of backbone and core muscle in the crooked life of at least one person with scoliosis (me). We can cultivate practices for finding each other in a shifting world. We can each create an intentional approach to what we take in and put out. What are intergenerational and evolutionary ways that we become what we practice? How can we navigate oppressive environments with core practices that build community, resistance, and more loving ways of living?
Yes. I do have dorsal-fin envy. On the coast of North Carolina you can sometimes see the fins of Lagenorhynchus actus (actus means sharp) cutting through the water with clarity and grace. Who wouldn’t want that?
The function of dorsal fins for aquatic animals is stability. In water that is always moving, having a dorsal fin provides balance, autonomoy, and support for the swift turns you might have to make in the oceanic life.
How did dolphins get dorsal fins anyway? Unlike fish, they don’t have bones that support a dorsal fin. The mammals they evolved through and from before returning to the ocean didn’t have dorsal fins. They aren’t a vestige of lims like tail flukes and side fins may be. The prevailing explanation is that dolphins evolved the dense tissue that became dorsal fins because they needed to in order to live in the wild movement of the ocean. In other words, dolphins evolved dorsal fins from practice across generations. By accepting that the ocean would always move, and becoming accordingly. An embodied emphasis towards balance. That’s what I’m talking about.
In a context that swells and tosses me around, where I might have to pivot without much warning, what are the evolutionary practices that stabilize me and allow me to cut a path through? (Gumbs 35-36)
(button pdf below)
Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
What are the intergenerational practices that generated dorsal fins in some dolphins and whales? What experience-based wisdom resulted in the ever-expanding spines and blubber of bowhead whales or the adaptation of sideways swimming river dolphins? What do the blue whales know that lets them fast all day and sing across the planet?
I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives. I am committed to the development of backbone and core muscle in the crooked life of at least one person with scoliosis (me). We can cultivate practices for finding each other in a shifting world. We can each create an intentional approach to what we take in and put out. What are intergenerational and evolutionary ways that we become what we practice? How can we navigate oppressive environments with core practices that build community, resistance, and more loving ways of living?
Yes. I do have dorsal-fin envy. On the coast of North Carolina you can sometimes see the fins of Lagenorhynchus actus (actus means sharp) cutting through the water with clarity and grace. Who wouldn’t want that?
The function of dorsal fins for aquatic animals is stability. In water that is always moving, having a dorsal fin provides balance, autonomoy, and support for the swift turns you might have to make in the oceanic life.
How did dolphins get dorsal fins anyway? Unlike fish, they don’t have bones that support a dorsal fin. The mammals they evolved through and from before returning to the ocean didn’t have dorsal fins. They aren’t a vestige of lims like tail flukes and side fins may be. The prevailing explanation is that dolphins evolved the dense tissue that became dorsal fins because they needed to in order to live in the wild movement of the ocean. In other words, dolphins evolved dorsal fins from practice across generations. By accepting that the ocean would always move, and becoming accordingly. An embodied emphasis towards balance. That’s what I’m talking about.
In a context that swells and tosses me around, where I might have to pivot without much warning, what are the evolutionary practices that stabilize me and allow me to cut a path through? (Gumbs 35-36)
Readings:
Anne Perez Hattori "“Feminine Hygiene: The US Navy, Chamorro Maternity, and Gender Relations in Colonial Guam” in Colonial Dis-Ease (ch. 4, pp. 91-123)
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Christine Taitano DeLisle: "Tumuge' Påpa' (Writing It Down): Chamorro Midwives and the Delivery of Native History"
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Teresia Teaiwa: "Microwomen: US Colonialism and Micronesian Women Activists"
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Zoom Class Discussion - Wednesday 11/10
Militarism & Micronesian Women's Activism
Power Point slides are for class review only. Please do not copy or share.
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