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Raina Salvatore edited the blog post This Is Why We CAN Have Nice Things in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
We all do things we don’t like. It’s a fact of life at this point. Consent under duress, if you will. But it’s also something that has cropped up during this community effort to create a cohesive document. It is clear, at times, that there is discontent. It would be naïve to think that there wouldn’t be discontent. But simply because we are brou…[Read more]
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Raina Salvatore wrote a new blog post What Is Necessary vs. What is Right in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
I think that in doing this project as a group, we are illustrating one of the issues that we came across in our readings with Octavia Butler: even though we try to be as inclusive as a democracy as possible, we […]
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Raina Salvatore edited the blog post Need vs. Morals: Where’s the line in symbiotic relationships? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
In response to today’s class, there are a few points I would like to make.
I had stated in class that we, as readers, tend to focus more on the humans. Yes, we are human, and yes, we will read things with a human perspective (obviously). However, that doesn’t mean that we cannot try to grasp or understand a different culture or society, wh…[Read more]
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Raina Salvatore edited the blog post An Ethical Relationship in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
Octavia Butler’s continual theme of challenged consent seems to run through more than just one of her novels. Readers see it again in Fledgling. However, Butler puts a spin on this one – her characters acknowledge the power and influence that have marred the 21st century understanding of consent.
No mistake, consent is challenged here. We see…[Read more]
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Raina Salvatore edited the blog post The Power of Consent TO Consent in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
The 21st century take on consent is that it exists in a vacuum – anyone making a decision, regardless of the circumstances (sexual or no), is free of pressure of any kind. So that would make rape not about sex, but rather about taking the choice to choose away from someone, or disregarding the answer they gave even if you posed the question. R…[Read more]
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Raina Salvatore wrote a new blog post The Infection of a State of War in the group American Studies: 6 years, 7 months ago
Eli and Ingraham’s choices to engage in Locke’s society of autonomy and capitalism in relation to the rule of law forces them to enter into a state of nature. Both Eli and Ingraham took more than they needed the […]
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Raina Salvatore edited the blog post Your Language Creates Distance in the group American Studies: 6 years, 7 months ago
We talk about a distance that vision creates, but that distance derives from the language we see in Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. Distance in vision stems from not being able to recognize similarities between a person and what they are seeing. However, it is language that further drives distance, specifically in the way that we perceive and d…[Read more]
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Raina Salvatore joined the group American Studies 6 years, 7 months ago
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Raina Salvatore became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago