Meta: the course blog all in one page, plus some wrap-up

Wrap-up. An introduction. Lord Rochester. Binnie's Nevada.

Jane Austen. Audre Lorde. Mansfield and Lawrence and other modernists. More Lawrence.

Renaissance sonnets. Walt Whitman. Lorca break: Lorca's Whitman Ode in Kline's English and in Lorca's Spanish. A nonacademic host for the full text in Spanish of Poeta en Nueva York.

Recommended writers of color (also furries). Oscar Wilde. James Baldwin. More sonnets (also "Goblin Market").

Tamara Faith Berger. Live on stage. Alison Bechdel. Sedgwick and Lockwood.

Who is apparently writing? Who does she think will be reading? Is there a speaker, narrator, persona?

Fabula vs. syuzet: what happens and how it's told. The town, the map and the direction of the journey. Choices about chronology.

A medium. Another medium. Another medium.

Two genres. Another genre. How many genres?

Ask what it's not. Look for allusions. Look for recommended precedents.

Ask why a work begins where it begins, and ends where it ends.
We say we have sexualities. We have triangles. Not necessarily the only way. Older models.

Intersections and intersectionality.

Eve Sedgwick; Patricia Lockwood

An Eve Sedgwick memorial site with short recaps and discussions of essays from Tendencies. Jason Edwards follows up on "Queer and Now." Robert Mills follows up on "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay."

Another story about the APA's 1973 decision, from Alix Spiegel of This American Life.

The gender-and-desire slot machine.

Some things have changed: the out gay undersecretary of the US Air Force; gay Air Force alums. Some things haven't changed yet.

Some things have changed: gender-variant kids. Photographers love trans and gender-nonconforming kids. More gender-variant kids' camps. One of several great organizations for trans and gender-nonconforming kids.

Kids' clothes, unisex fashion, and the world expert on both. Her kids and clothes resource linked to her academic book.

I believe we mentioned GLTBTQ+ superheroes? If you read only one thing about gay superheroes… If you read two, or three, or four… If you read five… Also this title.

Patricia Lockwood: the whole poem "Rape Joke," as originally published at The Awl. More whole poems as published online: "List of Cross-Dressing Soldiers." Scroll down here for "The Feeling of Needing a Pen." From the New Yorker, "Love Poem Like We Used to Write It" (may require login). "The Hypno-Domme…"

Minoan jug dolphins are real. One portrait of Emily Dickinson. 128 portraits of Walt Whitman. Lockwood, rhetorician.

The famous/ notorious Twitter feed. A lot of actual hypnodommes on the Internet. One hypnodomme. Even more hypnodommes.

More reactions to "Rape Joke." The Times magazine profile. A Rumpus interview. The Kat Stoeffel review.

Fun Home

The main Alison Bechdel page. The Dykes to Watch Out For strip comics archive online. Bechdel's blog (more up-to-date than much of the site). Fun Home the musical (video clips). More on the musical.

Studying comics: you should probably start here.

McCloud's big triangle. A couple of faces. Another face.

Graphic novels. More graphic novels. A lot of queer comics. Our leading academic scholar of (memoir-y or non-superhero) graphic novels. Another relevant graphic novel.

The auteur's hand. Even more DTWOF.

Neo-burlesque and other live performances (with Jade Sylvan)

Cam Awkward Rich, A Prude's Manifesto.

Johnny Blazes, drag reverse striptease. If that link fails try this Johnny Blazes performance instead. Another reverse striptease from London's Wotever World venue (performer uncredited).

The Slutcracker: video promo.

The Slutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers.

Sugar Dish, The Contract.

Jade Sylvan: "You know how sometimes…" prose poem/ essay; a live reading of that poem; a few more poems; essay on the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The Spider Cult promo video. The TEN promo video. Kissing Oscar Wilde, the book trailer.

Looking ahead: the main Alison Bechdel page. The Dykes to Watch Out For strip comics archive online. Bechdel's blog (more up-to-date than much of the site). Fun Home the musical (video clips). More on the musical.

Studying comics: you should probably start here.

The performer, educator and poet Sam Sax. The poems and performances of Rachel McKibbens.

Mixed-genre queer performance in Boston: the Femme Show.

Maidenhead

Tamara Faith Berger on Twitter. In conversation with Kate Zambreno. In other books. In Vice Magazine.

A slave. More slaves. Master-slave connections.

On missing white girls. Search and rescue.

Paradigms of meaty liberation. Older similar paradigms. Symbols of liberty? The fons et origo of explicit lesbian feminist erotica. A famously articulate porn star. VICE magazine's video interview (not for showing in class) with her.

Another important topic. And another.

Writing genre: erotica. Writing literate queer Canadian erotica.

Making a case for the sexual lives of minors. OTOH, making a case against porn.

An important story. Part of a farm animal. Getting wet.

A musical instrument. Another instrument.

A pretty good feminist magazine. Not so beautiful. Are we all trapped?

More sonnets, plus "Goblin Market"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese: sonnet one ("I thought once"). Sonnet forty-three ("How do I love thee"). Much (though not all) of the rest of the sequence.

Camões, or Camoens, wrote sonnets in real Portuguese. What Theocritus sang, in Edmonds' 1912 translation (scroll down to Idyll 15, lines 104-05). "How do I love thee" in manuscript. The Phoebe Anna Traquair illuminated "Sonnets" (1892-97).

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life: sonnet thirty-six ("Not in thy body"). Pretty much all of D. G. Rossetti (both paintings and poems) online. The House of Life, in a big academic digital variorum edition.

Christina Rossetti< Monna Innominata (complete sequence).

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market. The British Library exhibit on "Goblin Market," with manuscript facsimiles and illustrations.

Exotic fruit. Less exotic fruit. Another edition with some illustrations by L. Housman and D. G. Rossetti. A sampling of mostly c20 illustrations. The first edition, with DGR illustrations (scroll down).

Many, many interpreters. Are we in in London? Perhaps here? It doesn't look evil. But neither do these. Or these.

"Tenderness," by Thomas Page McBee. "Fool," also by McBee. The main McBee site.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin, interviewed in 1984. Baldwin on NPR. His 1987 NY Times obit. Darryl Pinckney's recent tribute.

Short clips and interviews from the documentary film James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. The official site for the film.

Lee Strasberg, teaching actors, on video. Another method acting lesson.

The New York Times reviews Blues for Mr Charlie(1964).

A poster for a 1935 production of Waiting for Lefty.

"Whether I'm a man": the last scene from Kings Row.

For those who missed it from Tuesday's lecture: another proud hammer. What is the hammer?

What do actors really want?

Another good recent book about race and microaggressions. An excerpt.

Another good writer who became a man.

One artificial phallus. Another artificial phallus.

The last scene in Shakespeare's Othello. Mo Willems on a good choice.