Elyse Thompson

"A manifesto not only causes a disturbance, it aims to cause this disturbance. To make something manifest can be enough to cause a disturbance. This intimacy between manifestation and disturbance has implications for how we write a killjoy manifesto." #BSUENG490

"One evening, face bathed in tears, Silky decided to give her body to the water. She let herself sink completely under the surface of the bath. She held her breath for a long time, feeling at peace, listening to the whispering of the water. " #BSUENG490

"Death. when i left my home, I died."

DANIEL MY GOD #BSUENG490

okay Cassie #BSUENG490

All right me too Casssie... #BSUENG490

"So sleep on your back. Your door doesn't lock"
"I put a chair in front of it"
"Oh Well, then that's all the backup you need.Jesus, Cassie" #BSUENG490

“Women's power to contest the terms of political power is substantial and for this reason it is constantly, though often in a behind-the-scenes way, subjected to interventions designed to limit its potential.“
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"We have a saying back home: Ịchụrụ chi ya aka mgba. One does not challenge their chi to a wrestling match. It feels as if that’s what I’ve been doing for years now, wrestling as if it could end in anything other than my loss." #BSUENG490

"The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity"
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"Allow us to interject; these births are complicated moltings, leaving skins all over the place. But remain assured, Asụghara’s presence was not our absence, never that. ..We let her mount the Ada, we let that story ride out—it has as many layers as we do"#BSUENG490

"The problem with having gods like us wake up inside of you is that our hunger rises as well and someone, you see, has to feed us" Ch4 "Freshwater" #BSUENG490

This is me trying to explain "The Wonder" to my poor roomate... #BSUENG490
I hate that man (the brother)

"I speak about a mother's thought-the intellectual capacities she develops, the judgements she makes, the metaphysical attitudes she assumes, the values she affirms. Like a scientist writing up her experiment,, ... a mother caring for children engages in discipline." #BSUENG490

"The reason Anna doesn't eat is that she's some kind of monstrous changeling disguised as a girl" pg 132 #BSUENG490

"the rules for feminity have come to be culturally transmitted more and more through standardized and visual images."
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"Do you know why I'm here?"
"To make sure I don't eat."
Of all the skewed ways of putting it... "Not at all, Anna. My job is to fins out whether it's true you aren't eating. " #BSUENG490

“She thinks that if she covers over her ears and turns away her head
she'll be free of them
and she'll never hear again the loud neighing of the kelpie or water horse”
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"The future must no longer be determined by the past.I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them, to confer upon them an irremovability the equivalent of destiny, to confuse the the biological and cultural." #BSUENG490

"The Yellow Wallpaper" is an eye opening story of a woman who is suffering from postpartum. Seeing how her own husband was able to lock her up rather than help her get treatment really shows how women were treated, especially when it came to healthcare.#BSUENG490

Take descriptive notes over each reading done in and out of class. It will help you prepare for your exams. #BSUwlit

Seeing Rockey at his mothers grave, and noticing that the grave has all his drawings laid across the stone is so saddening. I wonder how their lives would have been if Boy and Rocky's mother had lived.#BSUwlit

The part where Boy's dad comes around and is cruel to him in front of his friends is such a turning point in the movie. It makes me wonder if he will tell his dad that he found the money. Or if he will just keep it for the family. #BSUwlit

The dad is this movie seems to be a child still himself. From the way he talks about the movie E.T or the way he climbs into his car just makes him seem like a child. I don't know if he really wants to even be a dad. He even asked boy to no longer call him dad instead he is called Shogun. #BSUwlit

Rocky in this movie is absolutely adorable. He is very different from Boy. I think his way of thinking is so unique. Especially when it comes to his "powers "that he has. Im both nervous and excited to see how he changes in the movie. #BSUwlit

I would be least likely to sell back "Convivence Store Women" I really enjoyed this book. I think it is one that is an easy read and has a really good narrative. #BSUwlit

I really love this quote and how you related it to the world. I feel like especially right now this quote is extremely important and relevant! #Bsuwlit

"What's all this about? "...
"These are the grieving mothers, ma'am. They've been gathering in the park every Friday."
(pg. 138) #BSUwlit

"The media is like the lid of a massive coffin. It conceals a child buried at the bottom of a well. It doesn't matter that he's alive, that he breathes, bleeds, and dreams of freedom."
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