Revised Syllabus

REVISED SYLLABUS

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Reminder: I have set the Hawksite so that only registered users of the site can view it. You must be added as “users” and login to see the blog and post to the blog.

Office Hours: Students, who already have a Gmail account (aka their Hawkmail), can visit me in office hours via Google Hangouts. I’ve set up a Gmail account specifically for this purpose: ProfPabon@gmail.com. Students should add me to their contacts by going to hangouts.google.com and at the top, click New conversation. Then type my email address to send an invite/start a conversation. To accommodate as many students as possible, office hour chats are by appointment (between the hours of 8AM and 5PM).

Email: As before, I will check email every weekday. Students can expect a 24-hr turnaround (at the most) on their emails for the remainder of the semester.

Hawksites: We will continue to use Hawksites, not Blackboard.

Revised Structure

  • Lecture: Narrated PowerPoints, Films, and Online “Guest Lectures”
  • Section Meetings:
    • Optional Synchronous Twitter Chat during regular section times (T/F 12:30-1:20PM). Students may also visit the course hashtag on Twitter and participate outside of that time frame.
  • Assignments and Assessment:
    • New: Asynchronous Discussion Posts (5 pts. each)
      • Required Asynchronous Blog Discussion Posts on a Weekly Prompt. A “Teaching the Pandemic” prompt will be posted each Monday (beginning on 4/6 and ending on 4/27) along with a link to the source of the prompt (article, news item, video, etc.). Students must respond to the prompt in the comment thread by 11:59PM the following Sunday).
    • Changed:
    • Same: Participation grade earned for midterm grade will stand in most cases. Photo Essay and Who Am I? already completed and graded.
    • Cancelled: Citations Assignment and Liberating Action Project

Revised Schedule

Watch this video! Advice for Taking an Online Class by WGSS Affiliate Dr. Longtin 

Many college students are finding themselves in online classes for the first time due to COVID-19. This video covers 5 tools for doing well in an online class:

  1. Organization
  2. Time Management / Study Habits
  3. Independent Learning
  4. Taking care of yourself
  5. Asking for help

Tuesday, March 31, 2020      Feminist Platforms: Medicine    

Friday, April 3, 2020              Feminist Platforms: Reproductive Justice      
Content Warning

  • Read: 
    • PDF: Roberts, Dorothy. 2017. “Introduction.” In Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique, edited by Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater Toure, 11–31. New York City: The Feminist Press at CUNY.
  • Watch (in lieu of a powerpoint lecture): Maternity Deserts
  • Listen: Why Are Black Women Disproportionately Dying during Childbirth

April 6: Dr P will post the “Teaching the Pandemic” prompt #1 on “The COVID-19 Outbreak: Potential Fallout for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights” and “Where Can Domestic Violence Victims Turn During Covid-19?.”

Tuesday, April 7, 2020       Feminist Platforms: Gendered Violence
Content Warning

  • Read: 
      • Open Source Textbook: Ch. 20 (77-79)
      • PDF: brown, adrienne maree. 2017. “Resilience: How We Recover and Transform.” In Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Reprint edition, 123–50. Chico, CA: AK Press.
      • Online: Familiarize yourself with the a local case (Nikki Addimando) Nikki’s Story and the DVSJA
  • Watch (in lieu of a powerpoint lecture):
    • Valerie Seeley Interviewed by Victoria Law. Valerie Seeley Interviewed by Victoria Law. n.d. Accessed March 27, 2020. In this interview by Victoria Law, Seeley discusses being criminalized for self defense, serving 17 years in prison, being granted clemency after her second application, and why she’s fighting for the freedom and improved conditions of women and girls still inside. This interview was the keynote event at Free Them All: A Mass Commutations event organized by Survived and Punished NYC on April 14, 2018, co-hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women. For more information, visit Survived + Punished | #FreeThemAll and #FreeThemNY | Home.
    • Related Resource (not required reading, but if you are interested): #SurvivedandPunished Toolkit for Organizers: Survived and Punished – Toolkit – Page 1 – Created with Publitas.com

Friday, April 10, 2020            Passover/Good Friday – No Classes 

April 13: Dr P will post the “Teaching the Pandemic” prompt #2 on “What does feminist leadership look like in a pandemic?” and “Coronavirus is a Disaster for Feminism“.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020    Feminist Platforms: Sexual Assault
Content Warning

  • OPTIONAL GOOGLE HANGOUT: Instead of Twitter. Please check your emails for the Hangout invite!
  • Read:
    • Title IX with Emma Morcone, Title IX Coordinator at SUNY New Paltz 
    • COVID-19 Crisis Information: Students, faculty, and staff can report Title IX incidents electronically by emailing Title IX Coordinator, Emma Morcone, at morconee@newpaltz.edu.  Our office can still provide support services, reporting options, and resources virtually via e-mail, phone call, or video conference.  In the event of an emergency, please call 911 or University Police immediately at 845-257-2222.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020  Feminist Platforms: War
Content Warning

  • Read: 

Feminist Actions: In this section of the course, we examine a number of specific sites and movements where feminists have worked to create individual and collective change.

Friday, April 17, 2020        Feminist Actions: Feminist Movements

April 20: Dr P will post the “Teaching the Pandemic” prompt #3 on “Social Movements in Times of Pandemic.” “Disabled People React to Coronavirus Work From Home Accommodations”

Tuesday, April 21, 2020        Feminist Actions: Immigration
Content Warning  

  • Read:

 

Friday, April 24, 2020           Feminist Actions: The Movement for Black Lives
Content Warning

  • Read:

 

April 27: Dr P will post the “Teaching the Pandemic” prompt #4 on “Deviant Care for Deviant Futures QTBIPoC Radical Relationalism as Mutual Aid against Carceral Care REN-YO HWANG” and “Radical Care: Survival Strategies for Uncertain Times“]

Tuesday, April 28, 2020       Feminist Actions: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
Content Warning

  • Read:
      • Open Source Textbook: Ch. 19 (74-76)
      • PDF: Kushner, Rachel. 2019. “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind.” The New York Times, April 17, 2019, sec. Magazine.
  • Watch: Video Series I Use My Love to Guide Me

 

Friday, May 1, 2020                Feminist Actions: Radical Love and Addressing Harm
Content Warning

  • Read:
      • PDF: Lorde, Audre. 2007. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Reprint, 110–14. The Crossing Press Feminist Series. Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press.
  • Watch:
    • Addressing Harm Panel discussion featuring adrienne maree brown, Shira Hassan, Mimi Kim, Priya Rai, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, and Amita Swadhin. Moderated by Ejeris Dixon. Recorded at Building Accountable Communities: A National Gathering on Transforming Harm on April 27, 2019 at Barnard College, NYC. 

Tuesday, May 5, 2020        Feminist Actions: ACT UP, Solidarity not Charity
Content Warning

  • Read:

Friday, May 15, 2020

Final Project Due

Let’s Google Hang to say “see you later!” 12:30PM-2:30 PM 

Invite sent via school email!

 

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