English @ SUNY Geneseo | Erik Mebust | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/erikmebust/activity/ Activity feed for Erik Mebust. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7db32d627eacbf1f7832c43fa49f71d3 Erik Mebust wrote a new blog post Sweat Equity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8298/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 02:04:17 -0500 I’d like to draw attention to something we saw in This Old House on Friday. The show’s host used a phrase that immediately set off a ‘course themes’ alert in my brain: he told one of the participants they were […]

]]> 0 3c72e6c98a03b29ce7e38862822814be Erik Mebust wrote a new blog post Multiple Origins of Earthseed in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8293/ Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:36:42 -0500 In response to Jes’s post inquiring into the possible role of Heraclitus in the origins of Earthseed, I would like to do a hard loop back. In the Spring 2015 section of the Octavia Butler class, I wrote a […]

]]> 0 396d90d510a3188bf2c1f79223070bb8 Erik Mebust wrote a new blog post The Problem With Homeless People in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8265/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:43:39 -0500 Because I think it hits the nail on the head, I want to respond to Madison’s post on the criminalization of homeless people in Sarasota, FL. Many themes we have discussed this semester appear in her post, as well […]

]]> 0 59bdb9ad505cddbfd9e1a089f8475397 Erik Mebust edited the blog post Clean water makes houses makes safe communities in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8224/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:27:11 -0500 If I might take this opportunity to double post, I thought I should leave a citation for something I brought up in class yesterday. It was in response to Beth’s question for the day, “what is necessary for a house?” and she specifically brought up clean water and freedom from lead paint (negative freedom for you there, Jes) as…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3b378b49c3d79078e3fa8b2bb9749ad Erik Mebust edited the blog post Risky Business in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8220/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 05:26:52 -0500 I’ve been chewing on this post for some time, but it comes as an especially salient answer to Alpha’s question in class today, “what does any of this have to do with the Housing Crisis?”

I’ll begin by circling back to Lear. When we read that play, one scene that really stuck out to me was the moment it became clear that Goneril was angling to…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2244fe0c97f19fff7613a89a8578390 Erik Mebust edited the blog post Pressure to Spread in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7889/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 07:34:54 -0500 Before I dive into the meat of this blog post, I want to quickly introduce myself and offer myself as a resource to the class. Like Jenna, the material I’ve studied in my other major has provided me with a knowledge base that some of you might find useful once we delve into some of the more technical causes of the 2008 housing crisis. I’m an…[Read more]

]]> 0 48956309344807c28a09981f67fcfe0e Erik Mebust joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7815/ Sun, 29 Jan 2017 05:32:02 -0500 0 4657ac7e4cecf466082505d950af074d Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=675 Mon, 11 May 2015 06:01:22 -0500 I took this class because I wanted to expose myself to African American and feminist literature, and I thought that taking a course which focuses on science fiction, a genre which is partially responsible for my […]

]]> 110536276cc25452795f8611dbb02111 Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=648 Mon, 11 May 2015 05:55:23 -0500 I would like to take a moment to return to the Xenogenesis trilogy because I’ve come to a little more clarity about an issue that I struggled with while reading Lilith’s Brood. The question I could neither escape […]

]]> 41bbda94c6da49bd1baf3f5113d44517 Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=610 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 05:20:44 -0500 While reading Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, I could not help but note the similarities between Lauren Olamina’s ideas and those of Laotzu, the mythic author of the Daodejing (the foundational […]

]]> d15f5b6b2db57c9ac02a5c6e9c0b6afa Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=577 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:45:13 -0500 Since everyone is doubtless beginning the scramble to finish their annotated bibliographies, I thought I would take a moment to blog about Nanda’s article “Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s […]

]]> d0f332a3b9d8a40ea182482d85304608 Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=477 Mon, 06 Apr 2015 04:54:56 -0500 One encounter from Dawn that I think did not get enough attention during our discussion in class is Paul Titus’s attempted rape of Lilith. Nikanj explains that while it did not believe that Lilith would mate with […]

]]> a60c6a0223ee08a2824e6c05ced33e4b Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=406 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:56:20 -0500 While reading Govan’s article “Connections, Links, and Extended Networks: Patterns in Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction,” I was struck by the following passage:

“In each story, a physical, psychic, or […]

]]> 0d5e2ed9e18f0c434523de0549b6c276 Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=367 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 07:03:42 -0500 While reading Xhercis Méndez’s article “Confronting the Rhetoric of ‘Black on Black Crime’: A Response to Derailing Strategies,” I was struck by what she wrote about how in minority activists’ quests to draw […]

]]> 382d316512533a09d09d540c7df83235 Erik Mebust wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=113 Wed, 04 Feb 2015 03:26:47 -0500 Alarm bells have been sounding in my reading of Fledgling around the issue of implicit prejudice. As Shori (and by extension, we the readers) becomes better and better acquainted with the world of the Ina, the […]

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