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  1. Nov 2017
    1. they need to contain a charge

      The hook needs to be SHARP!

    2. only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil

      These are the sentences that the read takes away from the text. I like how the author here practices what he preaches, but crafting masterful, stimulating sentences pleasing to the eye.

    3. For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time

      I do this too - except I write down the quote in the notes in my phone. I've oft cited such quotes stored on my phone in conversation with friends and family. It's a great way to keep the writing and the writer's impact alive and to still feel the effects of a powerful piece of writing long after you've finished reading it.

    1. hey may feel guilty for lying or dissembling.

      there is emotional labor that queer individuals are forced to undergo that those in closest proximity to social norms must not experience

    2. ecause gender is acategory that is fundamental to people's beliefs about the world, anyone who ques-tions the foundation of those beliefs is, in some sense, questioning her personal exis-tence

      when we are confronted with people who exist outside the norms, it feels as if our own existences are challenged

  2. Oct 2017
    1. You must separate your own interpretations of schol-ars’ claims, the claims themselves, and your argument so as not to misrepresent any of them

      Use voice markers, as Graff and Birkenstein would say.

    2. It’s more truthful, complete, and objective, then, to put the researchers in the picture

      Even in science where they gather quantitative data, researchers conduct research and writer analyses with constraints and limitations.

    1. BCrs - former slaves living in rural areas, for the most part - were extremely poor, and they viewed the New Orleans CCrs with suspicion

      tension within nonwhite groups

    2. anglo- phones began to insinuat

      anglos trying to start shit

    1. ocialmovements around gender and sexuality (including their actions, discourses, and culturalimaginaries) do not unfold independently from economic processes, market forces, state orclass politics

      author pushes the idea that social movements, including polyamory, cannot be separated from economic and class-based structures

    2. The BBC News (Derby) ran a feature entitled“Philpott fire deaths trials shines lighton polyamory”

      polyamory has not yet achieved critical mass

    3. housing turns into a significant factor regulating resource distribution

      Access to housing (which provides gateway access to higher standards of life) is evidence of how poly people can still (and do) lead privileged, especially if they are financially secure.

    4. It further renders it impossible to recognise the role of friends ornonbiological kin in the production of care work and reproductive labour

      Current governmental policies do not reflect the diversity of families and relationship that involve intimate yet not necessarily sexual care

    5. The fusion of the householdwith heterosexuality results in the exclusion of transgender intimacies, same-sex desire andhomosocial bond

      as seen rampant in public policy

    6. social divisions shape polyamorous people’s lives

      Author examines how the poly community, while still combating hetero-normative monogamous standards, is also wrought with power structures.

    7. Black people (andother racialised groups) and working class people are likely to be exposed to gravestigmatisation if they publicly assume nonmonogamous identities

      Polyamory is for the (white) privileged; people who have the freedom and flexibility to explore fringe identities with too negative of repercussions, or risk representing their entire demographic.

    8. resent research samples composed of predominantly whitesubjects holding above-average educational qualifications and occupying advanced socio-economic positions

      Most of the polyamorous individuals studied are white upper-middle class.

    9. future polyamory research from class and politicaleconomy perspectives

      Polyamory needs to be understand from a class perspective

    1. this research sheds much-needed light on the complex relation-ship between sexual identity and sexual behavior

      author also discusses the difference between sexual identity and sexual behavior

    2. Members did not initially join the community to practice polyamor

      author investigates how new community members of the egalitarian intentional community came to terms with the possibility of consensual nonmonogamy. author examines the process of new community members identifying and understanding hegemonic ideologies and western socializations that intentional communities combat

    3. People who move to an intentional community go through a period of major cognitive and emotional readjustment as they question formerly held beliefs and forge new social understandings

      the same can be said about people exploring their untapped sexuality

    4. ome community members used the label of polyamory as a cover for casual sex

      contrary to popular belief, polyamory is not about sex

    5. overcome their jealous feelings

      overcoming jealously leads to self-liberation and enhanced emotional health and stronger relationships

    6. socially constructe

      jealousy as a social construct

    7. community members to challenge their dominant cultural socialization and resolve jealous feeling

      intentional communities challenge how we are socialized to think about traditional relationships

    8. Members mainly identified as white and middle-class, as in past research in similar communities

      egalitarian intentional communities are white spaces

    9. I used participant observation, content analysis, and in-depth interviews to investigate two egalitarian intentional communities from 2006 to 2007

      author conducted a two-year study of an intentional community that practiced polyamory, using participant observation and comprehensive interviews as their preferred methods of research.

    10. Feminism and the tenets of polyamory overlap significantly in that both connect monogamy and patriarchal ownership of women, and both empha-size women’s sexual agency and liberation

      feminism and polyamory both challenge the patriarchy and emphasize the woman's free sexual movement

    11. Discourse on polyamory in the 1990s emerged at the intersection of several progressive social movements, including several “waves” of feminism chal-lenging institutionalized heterosexual monogamy as the dominant relation-ship mode

      A discussion of polyamory requires a discussion of feminism.

    12. These social constructs of gender affect the differences in value men and women place on monogamy

      author points out how social constructs create different experiences of monogamy for men and women

    13. Dominant cultural scripts suggest that weddings, a celebration of lifelong monogamy, should be the “happiest day” of people’s lives

      no pressure... and is it really the happiest day of most of our lives? As a highly individualistic species, why is there are pressure to have the same hallmark experiences?

    14. beliefs that marriage represents a normal part of the life course and that people are naturally monogamous serve to reproduce monogamy as a hegemonic discourse and practice

      marriage is billed as a requirement in western society

    15. establish polyamory as a feminist discourse

      author argues polyamory's inextricable link to feminism

    16. how monog-amy maintains its position as a dominant ideology

      author investigates how monogamy upholds its status within the dominant discourse

    1. hese writers limit polyamory’s revol-utionary potential by primarily addressing the concerns of white,middle-class, college-educated individuals and fail to meaningfully collab-orate with others around common goals

      author critical of writers of polyamory texts in that they mainly cater to a white audience

    2. insights into relationships are general and universal in nature and canhelp you interact more effectively with all people in your life

      similar to Sheff's argument that serial monogamists can also take a page out of a polyamorist's book

    3. impacts on their legal, economic, health and parental rights

      In america, family structure determines access to legal rights

    4. Using these frameworks to explore the language and stories shared bythe authors of the 12 texts published about polyamory between 1992 and2004, I will further explore the limitations of the texts as well as theirimplications

      part of author's purpose

    5. olyamorists also offer a short-sighted, isolationist alternative thatserves to further solidify privileges for a few rather than realize animproved reality for many

      doubtful of polyamory's liberation bandwidth

    6. why one partnership should be inexplicably linked to so manylegal and social benefits and restrictions

      heterosexual monogamy is the only union with unlimited acknowledgement and access to state benefits

    1. We all know that it is important to warm up before you exercise

      Solid opener.

    2. Articulating a problem and its details

      It is important to clearly identify the problem near the beginning of a paper (basically ASAP) so that the purpose of your paper and your theses remain clear throughout the paper.

    3. the ability to wrestle with problems is what makes a successful leader

      Are strength is tested not in times of peace or ease, but tried in harm times. We build strength and resilience from the problems we face and experiences we acquire with dealing with issues.

    1. race . . . [is] a worldview, . . . a cosmological ordering system structured out of the political, economic, and social realities of peoples who had emerged as expan- sionist, conquering, dominating nations on a worldwide quest for wealth and power

      As Dr. Kendi explained during a Social Impact talk, racism is a power structure that acts socially.

    1. their focus on ethical, responsible, and fideled polyamory was from the liberal settler colonial perspective

      Essentially, The Ethical Slut was written for an audience of white women. Polyamory for white women.

  3. Sep 2017
    1. made literacy in Quốcngữitsfirst war campaignagainst the French, and the very foundation of national citizenship and sovereignty

      Use of Vietnamese indexed social revolution and reaction against French colonialism.

    2. the social and political cir-cumstances of those who speak a particular language will have a significant impact on the subsequentsymbolic and communicative status attached to that language

      If Deaf people have a degraded status in society, their language will be seen as inadequate as well.

    3. lack of extended ethnographic accounts ofDeaf groups

      There is not enough research on the Deaf community! Author hopes to minimize this gap.

    4. cultural group

      Interesting how the deaf community transformed a "disability" into a cultural group.

    1. ueer activists such as Peter Tatchell have ensuredthat ‘gay rights’ are joining ‘women’s rights’ in providing the moral gunfodder for the attack on Black and migrant citizenship rights and increas-ingly aggressive methods to exclude those racialized as Muslim

      This is where we see the relevance of intersectionality.

    2. niversal model of polyamorous

      Authors ruminate whether a universal model of polyamorous is complicit in oppressive social structures. Naturally, it is the white person who define the laws in the polyamory rulebook. Simply put, how does polyamory, the supposed emblem of sexual liberation, partake in the subjugation of a broad spectrum of individuals who engage in polyamory?

    3. How do we reclaim desireand forge viable identities out of the ashes of multiple systems of pathol-ogization

      Authors of this paper argue the difficulty of understanding one's identity. Self-help books cannot even begin to encapsulate the intersectionality of its readers, and they fail to acknowledge modern power structures and normative social values that degrade the queer individual's ability to come into their own identity.

    4. elf-knowledge isdescribed as the sine qua non of a successful polyamorous relationship life,as much as honesty, disclosure, partner-focused techniques of communi-cation, and the readiness for permanent negotiation

      Knowing yourself as an individual is a key tenant in successful and healthy polyamorous relationships.

    5. imperialist narrative of the West as sexually and emotionally advancedand superior

      Self-help books themselves are a very Western phenomenon.

    6. capacity for setting up their own regimes of normativity

      Self-help books create guidelines and can be read as a rulebook for how to go about polyamory. Something that should be liberating is thus constricted and bound by the pages of a self-help book that decree how to live polyamorously.

    7. who has so far gotten to define polyamory

      In understanding polyamory, it is important to understand the author(s) of the definition and their inherent biases.

    8. widercontexts of sex negativity which demonize all but a few practices anddesires involving a small range of gendered bodies

      Alludes to wider issue of mainstream control over what ideal sexual relationships and partners should look like.

    9. pathologize them as untrustworthypartners and dysfunctional parents

      public opinion

    10. Polyamory has thus arisen from the confluence of a number of sexuallyemancipatory discourses

      The concept of polyamory is often connected with the movement for sexual liberation.

    11. any bisexuals have experi-mented with various forms of intimate relationships with people ofdifferent gender and sexual identities

      This doesn't make bisexuality polyamorous. Bisexual individuals can engage in monogamous relationships.

    1. it’ll likely be the beginning of a journey of knowl-edge creation for you, too

      As Professor Choutka urged in class, we must research a topic that generally interests us. That way, we never cease to seek out new information and find inspiration to create our own to add to the pool of knowledge in that particular field.

    2. she thinks the NEA report provides misleading results because it ignores certain types of reading material, which, for her, can have some troubling consequences

      Goes to show that even objective researchers carry intrinsic biases when they are conducting studies. This highlights the importance of creating an annotated bib: forces the writer to research the author of the source, their background, their past work, and what biases they could be carrying with them in their writing.

    3. You should respond to the sources you use rather than just report on or parrot them

      Takeaway: You don't have to feel the same about every source you use. You don't have to love every source you use and you don't have to agree with the insights each source is offering.

    4. Review what other contributors have already published about your topic so you avoid writing something that is inappropriate, off topic, or repetitive

      New goal that is different from high school: contribute new knowledge, don't just learn "about" and "analyze."

    5. Wikipedia gave me a rough sketch of the general background

      This is exactly how I've always seen Wikipedia: as a page to skim over, a rough sketch of a topic that can point my research in the right direction as to where it can go next.

  4. Aug 2017
    1. Pathetic appeals (as rhetoric that draws on pathos is called) used alone without logos and ethos can come across as emo-tionally manipulative or overly sentimental, but are very powerful when used in conjunction with the other two appeals

      Hillary Clinton's campaign advertisement of a young women looking in mirrors presumably "hearing" Trump's harsh words against women effectively channeled allow three artistic appeals. The advertisement utilized pathos as it tore at our heartstrings and made us angry as we watched how hypothetical young women grew up presumably learning self-hate because of the President's misogynistic words. Hillary uses her credibility as a woman and presidential candidate to approve the message, an attempt at ethos that shows that the message carries weight because it is approved by an influential woman who understands the struggle of women across America. Finally, stark logos is employed at the end of the advertisement as the audience is prompted to think, after seeing all that Trump has said, if electing him as president would truly be the smart choice "for our daughters"?

      https://hinterlandgazette.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-releases-new-ad-mirrors-hitting-trump-vile-rhetoric-women.html

    2. can work to persuade others

      This goes off the idea that every action is a decision made; a politically driven choice.

    3. When you post to your blog or tweet you are using rhetoric

      Every Facebook post carries a subliminal plea that the poster is someone viewers want to be friends with, whether they share politically-charged articles to show they care about a certain issue or post photos of themselves having a good time with an intriguing caption. The "likes" each post receives validates the posters rhetoric and is even essential in successful rhetoric on social media platforms.

    4. fashion industry defines beauty

      An exclusive industry that only a select "special" few are granted access. The industry, through lustrous print ads and commercials, brags of a lifestyle hard to resist: adventurous, glamorous, and validating. Perhaps few consumers believe they deserve or adhere to this lifestyle, and in their hopes of giving off the appearance of having a place in the in-crowd they devour the eye-candy advertisements and seek out products and commodities they believe to be used by the elite. Effective companies sell a lifestyle that sets trends, not a product that follows.

    5. how they affect society

      We can understand a company's values from their rhetoric, and whether or not they choose to overtly push a certain political agenda through their advertising. Pepsi, through a controversial ad starring Kendall Jenner, tried to communicate that they were aware of the protests that were shaking the country and they not-so-coyly inserted Pepsi as a prop for peace. From this advert, Pepsi may or may not have succeeded in winning over customers through publishing an ad that openly addressed current political tensions and trying to prove that they were in the know and aware that the protests were of great significance to their broad consumer base.

    1. fundamental responsibility

      City of HP holds itself accountable for providing citizens with safe drinking water, which is not necessarily a given.

    2. exceeds

      Highland Park, IL is a wealthy northern suburb of Chicago, which means that resident amenities go above and beyond national and state averages.