Your Everyday Violence and Gender Syllabus
The goal of this course is for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of gendered violence.
Assignments/Grading
20% Attendance
30% Midterm (3 Medium articles, 400–600 words each)
15% Instagram Project
35% Final (2 Medium articles, 600–800 words each)
July 26, 2016: Shining Like Lighthouses
One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting…www.buzzfeed.com
We will begin creating the Instagram account — Shining Like Lighthouses — in honor of the brave woman that wrote and shared this letter after being raped by a student at Stanford University.
Create: clips for Instagram
Watch: Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s The Hunting Ground (2015)
July 28, 2016: What is violence?
Write: define rape culture; Create three questions for Amy Ziering if you were to interview her after watching this film.
Set up Medium.com accounts!
Read: In class close reading practice: Angela Y. Davis’ “Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women” from Frontline Feminisms (Waller and Rycenga)
August 2, 2016: Is Violence Gendered?
Mass male violence is everywhere right now. First it was Orlando. Then Nice. And Bavaria. Munich. Kabul. Fort Myers…www.independent.co.uk
A common demand made of socially marginalized groups is that they take responsibility for the bad acts of their members…www.salon.com
Watch: Sai Kabir’s Revolver Rani (2014)
August 4, 2016: ‘de faire le mal pour le plaisir de le faire’
‘To do evil for the pleasure of doing it’ …and understanding the desire to cause suffering.
Read: Selections from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality, “Second Treatise: ‘Guilt,’ ‘Bad Conscience,’ and Related Matters” (parts 1–8, pgs 35–46)
August 9, 2016: Nietzsche says ‘Forget’ and Feminists say ‘Speak Up!’
Read: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
"Pakistan's Kim Kardashian Murdered by Brother," screamed headlines a few short hours after news broke that Pakistani…www.vogue.com
Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered last week by her brother, was Pakistan's first genuine social media star. Despite her…www.theguardian.com
Last August, a twenty-two-second video posted on Facebook went viral in Pakistan. A young woman, her face obscured by…www.newyorker.com
August 11, 2016: Midterm + Instagram Project
Post articles by midnight!
August 16, 2016: Speak Up and #SAYHERNAME
Read: bell hooks’ Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (pgs 1–86)
A Vision For Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, & Justicepolicy.m4bl.org
In the middle of a five-hour standoff that ended in the death of 23-year-old Korryn Gaines, Facebook granted an…www.theguardian.com
Three officers with the Baltimore County police arrived at Korryn Gaines's apartment around 9:20 a.m. on Monday to…www.washingtonpost.com
Korryn Gaines, 23, was fatally shot by Baltimore County, Maryland, police during a standoff in Randallstown. Her 5-year…heavy.comm
August 18, 2016: Intersections of Violence
In the United States, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a specific set of politics among the left reigns…libcom.org
The House stood and applauded the shooting death of Miriam Carey, further perpetuating the idea that black women’s…www.thenation.com
Brenda Hardaway was five months pregnant when police were called to her home in Rochester, New York, because of a…www.truth-out.org
August 23, 2016: Mother Earth, Pillaging, etc.
Read: Rob Nixon’s “Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor” (Introduction)
August 25, 2016: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Violence
“…capitalism itself was created by state violence and the destruction of traditional ways of life and social interaction was part of that task. From the start, bosses spent considerable time and energy combating attempts of working people to join together to resist the hierarchy they were subjected to and reassert human values. Such forms of free association between equals (such as trade unions) were combated, just as attempts to regulate the worse excesses of the system by democratic governments. Indeed, capitalists prefer centralized, elitist and/or authoritarian regimes precisely because they are sure to be outside of popular control.” — from An Anarchist FAQ
