Take care of yourself—some of the topics are hard, worth it, but hard. You can manage it and take care of yourself, just ensure you prioritize it. #bsueng490

"It was the suspicion that my violence had been entirely human." Ouch. That's a tough one. #BSUENG490

so was the baby also part machine? was Alexia not fully human? #bsueng490

“where are you from for real?” I fear that man may be in some serio trouble… #bsueng490

the light seems to be warmer when surrounding this man but not when foccusing on Alexia. Warmer but still scary. #bsueng490

putting the chopstick/hair pin back in her hair was crazy... #bsueng490

I gotta say, good for Verna. Good for her… (Not so good for Bob, but it seems he deserved it) #bsueng490

I loved the tie back to all of the women that have come before her. "Whatever it is, it has already happened. If not to her than to someone." #BSUENG490

Precious reminded me of Anne Sexton's Transformations that I read in another class. I loved the revenge in the end, her ability to talk again without producing the jewelry made me happy too. #BSUENG490

To suggest that the feminist killjoy is a manifesto is not to say that we have an obligation to speak out. We are not all in the same posi-tion;we cannot all afford to speak out.Killing joy thus requires a communication system:we have to find other ways for the violence to become manifest #bsueng490

"That seems like a tough book for a lady of such tender years." Shut up. Right now. #Bsueng490

I would like to spend more time on the fact that the ships are actually living creatures. That is so freaking cool (and probably environmentally friendly). I would really like to have a better visual of these ships and to know what else is made of living beings--but also is this ethical? #bsueng490

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.” #bsueng490

Maybe I just missed it, but are the Khoush human too? Because she talks of them like they're another species but also like they're human? Like are they just another "tribe" or race or are they completely different? #bsueng490

“My nine sibling, all older than me except for my younger sister and brother” (Okorafor 9) *me reading, with nine siblings, all older than me except for my younger sister and brother* so odd—if her younger sister is actually her (slightly younger) twin then i think this might be about me #bsueng490

”I'll never be free of her. I wear her face; as I get older it'll stay her changing mirror, the one glimpse of all the ages she never had. I lived her life, for a few strange bright weeks; her blood went into making me what I am, the same way it went to make the bluebells…” #bsueng490

I really love this comparison that all masculinities are not equal, but yet we still come back to this idea of performing gender--and the idea that you can and will be punished form performing your gender wrong. #BSUENG490

Cassie is getting way too lost in this... how will she end up? #bsueng490

Everything within this "friend" group seems so problematic--no pasts? The way they react to each other? The sneaking around? If no pasts then how do you really know the people you're living with? And Cassie's quick and easy involvement with them? This is not good... #BSUENG490

I honestly can't wait to see how this all plays out. I also was really struck by Cassie describing Whitethorn as home but for no particular reason. #BSUENG490

THISSSSS!!! #BSUENG490

"You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes" (French 8). #BSUENG490

I was surprised by the ending of the book. We got the "we" perspective again, but this time it was whole and coherent. I thought the ending would be awful, or brutal, but instead it was peaceful and beautiful. #BSUENG490

It's so interesting that Asughara cannot bring herself to make Ada do *it* while she is already struggling with the loss of Ewan or with the other pains she has--she cannot make it worse. #BSUENG490

"The Cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labor, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity" #BSUENG490

Again, Asughara claims to be protecting Ada but still causes her more harm than good. She encourages inappropriate relationships, initiates them, and destroys them, but here is where we finally see 1) Asughara's regret and 2) Asughara's own pain. Is Asughara protecting Ada or herself? #BSUENG490

Asughara claims she's protecting Ada, but she also is willing to ruin her relationships. She then has Ada do things that she knows would cause Ada inner turmoil, and fails to protect her from the overwhelming shame and feelings of dirtiness. She is hurting Ada more than protecting her. #BSUENG490

"One is not simply a body, but in some very key sense, one does one's body, and indeed, one does one's body differently than one's contemporaries and from one's embodied predecessors and successors as well" (Buttler 483). #BSUENG490

"We think about this because there has to be a point, a purpose to this, a reason for why we were thrust across the river screeching and fighting" (Emezi 35). Mustn't we all believe in this? That there HAS to be a reason? #BSUENG490

"If you won't eat, child, you'll die." Anna looked right at her, nodded, and smiled. -- pg 222 All of the tragedies this poor girl has been through.

Maternal Thinking made me think of Mrs. O'Donnel. She of course has to think about the care of Anna, and as is pointed out in the last section of reading, she must feel she is failing, watching Anna waste away and refuse a basic need such as food. #BSUENG490

"How to quantify the quality of being alive?" (Donoguhe 107) #BSUENG490

"I view our bodies as a site of struggle, where we must *work* to keep our daily practices in the service of resistance to gender domination, not in the service of docility and gender normalization" (Bordo 466). #BSUENG490

I wonder what is really wrong with Anna. Her legs sound quite swollen and uncomfortable, her hair is falling out, and her hands are swollen too, yet she does a lot of sewing. Why doesn't Anna seem concerned with her body at all? #BSUENG490

"In other words, even if she does not experience her womb as a kind of tomb or perceive her child's occupation of her house/body as depersonalizing, she may recognize that in an essential way she has been defined simply by purely her biological usefulness to her species" #BSUENG490

At what point does Beauty get to control her own fate? Choosing to be with the Beast so he doesn't die is not really a free-will choice. #BSUENG490

In the Lean Back podcast episode, they bring up that one widespread form of gaslighting is blaming the victim for their situation and then failing to give them the necessary tools to improve their lives. John does this to the narrator in TYW by locking her in a room and denying her needs. #BSUENG490

How long has the author been experiencing this psychotic break? Was there any wallpaper actually missing from the wall when they moved into the nursery? (I think not, I think it's our unreliable narrator coming through.) Why is John so insistent upon infantilizing the narrator? #BSUENG490