Most recent public comments by Supreme Leader Carter Orlando https://nowcomment.com/users/130460 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964617 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964617 When critiquing masculinitst bias, it is interesting to think of any of her own personal biases that she may have when writing the piece. Everyone has biases and it is interesting to see how they effect the work of the piece. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:22:28 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964611 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964611 It is interesting in how Butler self-describes the piece with “grim fantasy.” In using such language she acknowledges the harsh, gritty tone of the piece, yet with fantasy tells how it is a story. It is not to a tee in its reality but serves more to describe a message rather than the pure actions of the story. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:19:10 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964598 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964598 I feel that it is so important when reading books like Kindred to look at authors like Butler’s exigence behind the piece. The fact that black women’s representation was so lacking probably fueled much of her steam behind the piece. Looking at that it is interesting to think what was her goal in representing. What did she want Dana and her story to represent in the female African American and their history. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:15:32 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964589 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964589 With every movement it feels like someone is left out. With the ERA, members of the LGBTQ+ community who fought hard for the amendment, where ultimately disappointed by the fact that they took a less strong stance for their rights fearing that it would harm the possibility of others recognition. Every movement tries its best to represent and do its best, but their is always a group that is one step beneath that is forgotten in the fight for representation. This is then interesting to look into Kindred and see if there is anything flawed in representation. If taking a less strict historical fiction approach to the story, that Butler could have left some stories out of her own. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:12:05 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964569 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964569 It seems very 21st century to think of advertisements by companies taking string social issues, the Pepsi ending racism and Gillette toxic masculinity coming to mind. However, even at the turn of the century companies were making ads to target growing demographics and acknowledge other groups. It is interesting though to visualize this change in advertising where it started from growing demographic representation by showing more diversity in ads to taking full strong stances on prevalent issues to try to enlarge profits. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:02:56 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964557 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964557 It is interesting how in this era we saw a change to more perspectives and experiences. Rather than having solely the imperialist narrative and that of the white man, more and more information was being geared to the less seen perspectives and complex histories such as the Native Americans who lived in America before colonization. It is interesting to then see this reemergence of this concept in the modern day as we try to look through history through more lens than we did before. With Columbus now becoming a hated figure and historians trying to change the narrative that Africa, Asia, and the Americas lacked complex societies before European history encountered them is very interesting to see in this greater context. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:59:09 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964535 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964535 The concept brought up of how the use of science fiction could impact the historical fiction is not something I ever thought of. Due to the narrative trying to be conveyed could it be that Butler focuses on trying to convey the message of the piece to the reader over the historical accuracy. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964526 https://nowcomment.com/documents/335213?scroll_to=2964526 It is very interesting to analyze the role that science fiction fills in the entirety of the piece. Science fiction became popularized starting out of the 1950’s, with this book being written not long afterwards, it is interesting to look at the piece’s overall place that it also fills in the science fiction movement as well. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956734 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956734 I can totally see that! Churches are a staple with the black community and with what I believe this poem describing that of black communities, like that of New Orleans, their welcoming aspects can be pulled through both poems. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956694 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956694 In reading the poem, one can draw the conclusion that the lake could stand in for the African American communities built. Presented as a community with “outstretched arms” and must always respond against the assumptions and negativity that surrounds them. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956682 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956682 Already knowing the lake stands for more, one of the first assumptions made are that the lake is a place of death, harm, and nothing but negativity. This allows you to start to piece together who the person Smith writes this poem in response to. You can see their outlook of negativity and lacking the ability to see the good, choosing negativity. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956659 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956659 I find it an interesting choice to rather than to say directly what the lake is, Clint Smith first introduces the lake by what it isn’t. As well, with the phrasing “and no,” it seems that these are in response to frequently made questions or assumptions. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956641 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956641 A tessellation is another for tiling/mosaic. So in using the word Smith is referring to the lake which devastates the city to the point of it being filled with so much shattered glass and colorful spray paint, it is like a tile art/mosaic. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956593 https://nowcomment.com/documents/334246?scroll_to=2956593 New Orleans is a city with a long and large black history and continues to be a majority African American city. New Orleans sits on the brackish Lake Pontchartrain, bounding the city’s northern limits. The city has a long history with the lake, with also some of its most important outside connections traveling across it. During Hurricane Katrina is was the surge from the lake that further bashed the city while it was already struggling from the broken levies. Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:51:24 -0500