Thank you for these thoughts! Your point about the inclusiveness of the course for all women (and other minoritized genders) is exactly what I was going for. And although you don’t really toot your own […]

Thanks for such a thoughtful reflection. I love your second two sentences of your first grad so much. The way you talk about unraveling yourself from cultural expectations is so poetic and also a […]

What a thoughtful and heartfelt reflection; truly a pleasure to read. I’m so tickled that in your first sentence, as I read it, you credit everyone in the class with exceeding your expectations. That we […]

I so deeply appreciate your thoughtful and deep candor here. You really took this reflection seriously, which doesn’t surprise me at all, but I want to name it because that’s hard to do at this time in […]

What an insightful and thoughtful set of observations you’ve shared here. I really appreciate how you describe your added exposure to the literature of gender as well as the way that your beliefs have […]

I’m so glad that the course was able to add to your insight in the queer topic-based ways that you list out. I’m particularly glad that the Davis book was useful to you. It’s such a wonderful text and it […]

Your comments on my teaching and what it meant to you made me cry. I appreciate them so much. I’m so glad that you felt like you were in an in-person class, partly because as a huge fan of in-person […]

Your first paragraph is such honest and important context (although based on the insight and register of your discussions and writing about gender, I am really surprised to learn that you hadn’t been […]

I really appreciate your thoughts here — listening can be hard (especially on zoom and for three hours at a time!), and I’m so glad you got so much out of other people’s comments in our discussions. […]

Wow! What a tremendously thoughtful and thorough reflection! I think your question “What about gender would I learn that I don’t already know” Is a really important one, and I’m glad that you shared it […]

I love that gender myths and gender performance are two of the ideas you start with! And I love that you connected Marsha P. Johnson’s childhood experiences with children knowing who they are — I think […]

Wow! What a tremendously thorough and thoughtful reflection! I love learning about why you signed up for the course, and while I think you started out knowing more about gender than you give […]

Thank you for this thoughtful reflection! I appreciate how thoroughly you lay out what you learned and also what was hard (writing is not easy, nor is it fun for everyone — especially in public!). […]

Thanks for this thoughtful look into your experience. I’m glad you liked the Davis and Stryker readings, and I especially appreciate that you lay out what you learned from them — and those things turn […]

Thanks for your thoughts here. I’m glad you got to have your first experience in a gender studies class in this community. I appreciate (and agree with!) your observation that “we were all able to feel […]

What a stellar analysis. You take an important topic and approach it lyrically and with close attention and thoroughness.

I tend to quote students’ sentences back to them in these comments, and you […]

What a beautiful and introspective piece. I got a little teary in the parts that had more to do with your life. Thank you for that openness! It’s not easy to do in writing. The Davis piece is a nice […]

What a stellar analysis. I know you had this ready well before it’s due, and what I read was solid then, but you’ve gone and made it even better. What a pleasure to read, truly.

You have lots of […]

What a thoughtful and thorough piece! I really appreciate the care you took with the topic, and I came away knowing more than I started with. Your title is also really stellar and draws the reader in!

I […]

You have some wonderful ideas here that you express so thoughtfully and with good evidence. Your first paragraph sets things up really comprehensively (I especially appreciate the distinction you make […]

What a wonderful piece. Your ideas are sharply articulated and your prose is lyrical and clear. Content-wise, you do a great job of using both Friedan and Davis to talk about gendered housework […]

You have some wonderful ideas in your piece that you express really evocatively and powerfully. In particular, the way you talk about your own experience majoring in computer science after laying out […]

What a smart and lyrical piece of writing — truly a pleasure to read. You set out your argument so thoughtfully, particularly in your second graf, where you balance the different ways queer […]

What a thoughtful and sharp essay. I know how hard you thought about the non-traditional aspects of your structure, and they work really well, especially the little one line interjections — it’s […]

You do a great job taking on the question of housework with a conversational tone. Like we talked about in class though, your second paragraph is a little too long and unfocused for an Internet reader. […]

You have a lot of great ideas here — in some ways, too many. Remember what we talked about in class — internet readers tend to have a shorter attention span, and it’s hard to read a paragraph with a […]

You have some great ideas here! They’re a bit hard to read because of your structure. You have enough separate themes and supporting material to break this into at least three paragraphs. This helps the […]

Your first graf is really engaging and draws the reader immediately in — you dismantle a commonly held assumption about what normalcy is and you use it to introduce your topic really elegantly. In […]

What a great topic to choose — and you bring such careful, lyrical attention to it! It would help to frame your piece a little more specifically, though — “some of the struggles that are experienced […]

You have some great ideas here! Your point about mental health is really important.

There are some places where you are presenting a fact that isn’t just common knowledge and in such a way that the […]

You have some impeccable sentences in this piece, like “No matter what a woman’s choice, inclination, ability, education, employment, or financial or social status, tending to the home and family a […]

You have some great ideas here! But you didn’t do what the assignment asks, which is to use the outside texts. Simply listing them in your sources isn’t enough — you were asked to make an argument about […]

You have some fantastic ideas in this piece, and your writerly voice is wonderful! Each paragraph was a pleasure to read, and your title is, frankly, stellar. You draw the reader in and keep their […]

What a snappy title! It pulls the reader in immediately, and it is such a great response to Davis, too. I also think the way you talk about women’s titles in your first graf is really compelling — you […]

You have so many good ideas in here and you communicate so many important truths! Your topic is a big and important one, and the directness and comprehensiveness of the way you take it on is really […]

This is a wonderful post. I am so impressed with this sentence right up top: “We, as a more progressive era of humans, have already started to blur the lines that separate humans into specific […]

You have some really nice work here! You’ve brought up some smart points and used Plank well (though not quite enough) to back them up.

Be careful of generalizations — your third graf makes some […]

You make some great points here, but you don’t sufficiently use support from the text you chose. Remember that the assignment is supposed to make a claim that you back up with using one of our course […]

You have so many sharp observations in this essay, and you do a good job of making points and using the Davis to support them, but there are a couple of historical inaccuracies, and your structure is […]

As Hilarie Ashton said, “Judith Butler is a transformative theorist whose writing is sometimes hard to understand”:

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