In “The Uses of Anger” Audre Lorde writes “For it is not the anger of Black women which is dripping down over this globe like a diseased liquid. It is not my anger that launches rockets, spends over sixty thousand dollars a second on missiles and other agents of war and death, slaughters children in cities, stockpiles nerve gas and chemical bombs, sodomizes our daughters and our earth. It is not the anger of Black women which corrodes into blind, dehumanizing power, bent upon the annihilation of us all unless we meet it with what we have, our power to examine and to redefine the terms upon which we will live and work; our power to envision and to reconstruct, anger by painful anger, stone upon heavy stone, a future of pollinating difference and the earth to support our choices. ”
You have an option to either write 7 page paper discussing your vision of utopia or working on a creative academic project described below.
A creative academic project.
What is a creative academic project? You will mix and merge your academic skills with your imagination. How you express the imaginative part is up to you – you can create short story, music, drawing, painting, collage, video, sculpture, dance and anything else that you feel inspired to do.
Both options:
Imagine the new world Lorde suggests we create. What does this world look like? What can we do to get there? What are the alternatives? What is the world we live in now and why does it need to be envision something different? To put it differently you are asked to describe your own utopia. You can choose to do this as a team project with someone else. If you are doing it with other people make sure to tell me – you will need to increase the number of sources, issues you address and length of the project.
What you are expectedt to submit – Bio, Explaining the issue you want addressed, Creative representation of your perfect world with the focus on the issue you selected, Reference page.
Steps to complete the final:
Brainstorming – answering questions what are some key problems society faces today. Choose three you would like to address in this project.
Creating a time line for yourself
Researching one issue and creating a reference list. You should have a minimum of 3 references.
Decide on art form(s) you plan to use
Outline your project – a draft will be due before the final so that I can give you feedback. If you submit you can earn an extra credit.
Write your own bio to go with it – the draft is due before but you can edit and submit the correct version before the final. If you submit you can earn an extra credit.
Create art work to go with the text.
Write the text (7 and 8 can be happening at the same time)
I WOULD LIKE THE TOPIC TO BE WOMAN IN THE WORKPLACE
