Congratulations! You have made it to fifth week! Time to start thinking in a more complex way about how our experiences are shaped. Each of us is impacted differently based on a whole array of factors. These factors include but are not limited to our:
- Intersectional identities (age, race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, etc.)
- Personalities, preferences, and idiosyncrasies
- Habits and rituals
- Personal, family, and social structures, experiences, and histories
- Demographic makeup/descriptors
- Geographical, regional, national, affiliations and experiences
These listed here and many more factors make us who we are and enable us to understand our every changing individual and cultural worlds. Of course, an individual does not exist separate from their environment. Understanding and analyzing the self (often referred to as autoethnography) means thinking critically about the role of the self in larger cultural structures.
This EA is designed to help you think through intersectionality and intersectional and metaphorical analysis in preparation for your final essay. Hopefully this type of analysis will additionally serve you well in life and in your college career as you move through more COMS and humanities courses.
Consider the following course materials as you do the activity and as you compose your EA Report, which is worth 50pts per essay:
Course Materials:
- All readings available in the module for the week!
- All videos available in the module for the week!
- Short video describing metaphors and metaphorical thinking/analysis
Engagement Activity:
Intersectional Metaphor: Taking inspiration from the course materials for the week, you will explore an original metaphor that explains your own intersectional identity and experience. What metaphor poetically, creatively, or critically explores your own particular mesh of identities? What will help you and others to understand your individual makeup and experience? Once you have come up with an appropriate metaphor, you will explore that metaphor to unearth ideas around the bullet points in the first section of this assignment. You will write your EA Report based on the activity.
Follow these steps:
- After doing all of the assigned reading, think of a metaphor that aptly explains intersectionality as you view it operating in your own life. Come up with an original metaphor. For example, Kimberle Crenshaw uses a street intersection as a metaphor in her discussion in the video you watched to describe Black Women’s experiences. As another example, I once had a student explain his mixed-race experience is a class performance using a hyphen (-) as a metaphor).
- By hand, write down or draw your metaphor in the center of a piece of paper.
- As a brainstorming session, word associate, draw, write, freewrite, highlight, outline etc. what comes to mind that helps you understand your own intersectional experience through this metaphor. If you have never completed a brainstorming exercise before, it looks kind of like this:
- Present your brainstorming sheet to someone. If you live alone, zoom or facetime someone. Explain your metaphor and show your brainstorming sheet to whoever you speak with. Write down any feedback they give you.
- In your EA Report, following the DIET formula, include your experience of 1-4 above and include an embedded photograph of your brainstorming sheet. Paste the image/photo into the word file before uploading it to the appropriate EA 5 Report assignment tab on canvas.
What do I do when I complete the creative portion of my EA assignment?
- Take a picture of your brainstorming sheet
- Embed the picture into your EA Report at the end of your report. Do not forget your works cited page should still come after this image.
- For your written report this time around, please make the connections to the readings and videos very clear. Continue using the DIET formula to guide your essay, but also include the metaphorical analysis of your own experience (steps 1-4 above). You can do this wherever you feel appropriate in your essay, and do not forget to include what message you are attempting to convey through your usage of the metaphor you have selected.
Remember, EA reports should be the result of concentrated application of course materials to a specific activity. The report simply illustrates that you understand how and why this activity is important to your growing knowledge of Performance, Language and Cultural Studies.
*I will be deducting 5pts from essays with no correctly formatted MLA Works Cited page. You DO NOT have to complete a video on VT for your EA this week.
Below is all the webiste/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJ4Dbdm1ks&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o&feature=youtu.be
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