https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc Discussion Board en-us 2021-02-24 19:46:42 UTC 2023-05-05 15:17:06 UTC hello@padlet.com cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238272007 How does the idea of memory differ in Vuong's story than in Chris' arguments? How are they similar? ]]> 2021-02-24 19:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238272007 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238283427 2021-02-24 20:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238283427 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238291463 What do you make of Trevor's internalized homophobia?]]> 2021-02-24 20:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238291463 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238298544 pg. 75-78
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]]> 2021-02-24 20:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238298544 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238310618 "You have to be a real boy and strong" -pg. 26
"I gave birth to a healthy, normal boy" -pg. 131

]]> 2021-02-24 20:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238310618 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238332303 "A comma superimposed by a period the mouth so naturally makes. Isn't that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?"]]> 2021-02-24 20:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238332303 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238345381 "I had tainted him with my faggotry, the filthiness of our act exposed by my body's failure to contain itself" -pg. 203]]> 2021-02-24 20:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238345381 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238354732 What are the similarities?
*Hint: Think about Somerville's article over queer's definition*

"Because grief, at its worst, is unreal. And it calls for a surreal 
response" -pg. 226]]> 2021-02-24 20:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238354732 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238366977 2021-02-24 20:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238366977 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238386410 What does this passage say about American "queerness" compared to other cultures? ]]> 2021-02-24 20:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238386410 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238504203 Pgs. 24-25

How does America's toxic hypermasculinity define queerness?]]> 2021-02-24 21:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238504203 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238521039 is some space for you to add anything you find important that doesn't directly relate to your topic]]> 2021-02-24 21:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238521039 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238525171 "The heifer, the farm, the boy, the wreck, the war--had I made it all up, in a dream, only to wake up with it fused to my skin?"]]> 2021-02-24 21:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238525171 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238531522 don't draw attention to yourself. You're already Vietnamese.]]> 2021-02-24 21:09:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238531522 cforbing https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238550239 The trope of commas reminded me of the significance of the semicolon project, where people would get semicolons tattooed as an anti-suicide notion.]]> 2021-02-24 21:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1238550239 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243671087

]]> 2021-02-25 23:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243671087 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243674450 2021-02-25 23:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243674450 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243677872 2021-02-25 23:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243677872 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243683137 2021-02-25 23:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243683137 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243686707 Metaphor about addiction. Brought up right when the narrator discusses the neighborhood wanting stop signs, though the woman who gets the stop signs installed has sons who die of heroin overdoses.


The Buffalo, according to Jacob, is significant within Vietnamese culture

]]> 2021-02-26 00:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243686707 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243687984 p226: "It's through the drag performers' explosive outfits and gestures...that this relief...through extravagant spectacle, is manifest. As much as they are useful, paid, and empowered as a vital service in a society where to be queer is still a sin, the drag queens are, for as long as the dead lie in the open, an othered performance. Their presumed, reliable fraudulence is what makes their presence, to the mourners, necessary."]]> 2021-02-26 00:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243687984 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243694965 Rose is such a complicated character. She does so much good for Little Dog but then also hurts him (the basement scene). How do we understand and think about the way PTSD informs their relationship?

One of the amazing things of this novel is how it seeks to produce understanding after so many traumatic events. ]]> 2021-02-26 00:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243694965 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243705662 In The Color Purple and in On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, both protagonists are abused. This abuse is both physical, mental, and emotional. Is there a connection between these texts, and the way that their "otherness"  impacted their lives and perhaps played into their abuse? 

How does this also tie into the heteronormative trope that queer folks are queer because of their abuse?]]> 2021-02-26 00:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243705662 https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243712878 Both discuss touch - I cannot find the exact passages but in memory: touching is an act that can dissolve the boundaries between bodies? what does touch do?]]> 2021-02-26 00:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cforbing/gdgqzsz91ra3yuwc/wish/1243712878