Twinsters Film Notes
- wholeness: two halves coming together
- also still individuals – diff. experiences with adoption
- varying definitions of home
- intimacy
- family beyond blood relations
- forgiveness of birth mother
- reconnection with birth home – ability to reconcile and have multiple homes
Tues. Notes
- George Lipsitz: need to illuminate “dark corridors” of history
- intersection of race and sexuality
- humor in diff. cultures
- humor doesn’t translate well
- example of white people laughing at black humor only after black people “approve” of it by laughing first
- awareness on what you are laughing at
- humor as a weapon vs. tool to survive
- who decides what is “obscene”
- Glenda Carpio: relief theory, superiority theory, incongruity theory
- Werner Sollors: destroy with humor, then build it back up
- Margaret Cho:
- All American Girl
- caters to white audience/not
- issue of “being the first” – when you’re so hungry to see yourself reflected, when only one story is being portrayed
- double edged sword of representation and stereotypes
- personal identity vs. commercialized identity
- I’m the One that I Want
- use of comedy to interweave story
- facial expressions and body language in comedy
- self deprecating humor
- Fresh Off the Boat
Writing Workshop: Drafting, A Guided Meditation
- Shitty first drafts
- Anne Lamott:
- first draft as if child is writing it
- get it all down, no one’s going to see it
- doesn’t have to be linear/perfect
- make time for it
- low stakes writing
Friday Notes
- “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” – Mark Twain
- “Tell the truth but tell it slant” – Emily Dickinson
- don’t be boring (lol)