cannot
cannot or are not socially conditioned / allowed to?
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- Jan 2026
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Houwe adults loved Columbine! Never mind that schools are safer than ever. thatkids get killed at home not school. that the need for up-to-date textbooks mightoutweigh the need for metal detectors: we have to have adolescents play certainroles. whether they are playing them or not
this section has not aged well
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Just as we are anxious to protect kids b\. making them powerless until they areabout 14. so at the other end we move to try them as adults and execute them atyounger and younger ages
contemporary childhood is a paradox
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declines into adulthood
peak romanticism
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- Sep 2024
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crazy
calls this word into deep questioning
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but I’m a risk or somethinga liability?
a woman is a liability...is this true in our world?
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BETH
doubt
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his fiction is more important than her fact?
great quote
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Abigail was a human being
yes, but in this case she is a character and they have a function, so analyze and pick apart that function.
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like that’s what names
great quote
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thank god for Lizzo
the irony
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powerit seems to me like these girls wanted to get some at any cost
power is too broad...what specifically?
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self-preservation
examine this concept in Crucible and this play and as it relates to courage, heroism, truth, etc
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NELL
How does this land with us? Too muchness and it's association with the "feminine?"
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you don’t have to think about every single thingyou know?sometimes things can just be whatever they are
how do we feel about this?
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but that’s what literature is forthat’s what art is forto make sense of moments in time like this one
Is this true? What is the power of the written word?
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- Sep 2023
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we relentlessly idealizechildhood. appropriate it for our own longings
constantly ask the question...who am i writing this for? the adults or the kids? am i policing myself because this is TYA?
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Peter Pan
How is Peter Pan more for adults than kids?
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exists onlyas a pedagogical tool or as a repository for adult needs. We can write plays andgather children into an auditorium-I mean, what choice do they have?-and runit at them. But what is happening? Can we say that all children's theater is heavypropaganda, training lessons in what it means to be a child, that is, what adultswant and need children to be
so then, how do we avoid writing material that caters to this?
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They have no eyes, noagency. They cannot desire but can only be objects of desire
and so we write to change that
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The voyeur's dream is to turn the world into an ob-ject that never threatens but always invites.
how do we get away from this in theatre?
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a bundle of incapacities
how does this impact the way we portray them?
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The child is always a spectacle,
The author makes this assertion, but so what? What is implicit in this assertion?
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As soon as imperialismbegan its work. the adolescent became inevitable.
Are we still in synch with this idea of adolescence?
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All of these-like children's theatre-position kids as objects to be \.ien.ed.their true erotic function in our culture
how do you center the child without making the child an object to be viewed? point of view...agency
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a kind of ecology of protection
what is lost in an ecology of protection? especially when the arts are concerned?
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We maintain a standardfor sexual allure that we also declare to be unthinkable, criminal.
paradoxical
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innocenceand purity, were also defined in the 19th century as erotic qualities-the qualitiesa male was to look for in a female.
this framing is surprising and illuminating
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This Romantic child's
how far have actually gotten away from this notion of a child/childhood?
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massive social and economic reorga-nizations that made the child necessary by making the family seem necessary
is the child at the center of our contemporary heteronormative western culture? or is it idolized to be at the center?
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he child" is a construction whose only function is to serve "theadult" category
This being true, then the question it begs is how do we define what a child is independently?
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