https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/kimeswalk/activity/ Activity feed for Nicole. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 37559a4f731b91512297a2375cafcdf6 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/978090/ Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:52:25 -0500 c5c6834bd5bd6591b199fc0ec395f6bf https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/976819/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:11:37 -0500 5a384228eaefa71b508475fbd40209f2 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=227 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 22:20:05 -0400 I was very conscious of the premium importance these three different pieces placed on narrative. In the Kynard, Flossie creates her own agency by spinning her own narrative for the Fox. In PAX, where the […]

]]> 0613c46aae61f21e5bd5a9ee44d62e6e https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=194 Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:17:40 -0400 The story from the Trickster anthology that stuck with me the most was the one of the deadly beaver, which essentially baits the men by offering them a piece of its own flesh. Because the beaver is offering the […]

]]> 86e3136e23cfa9c2856bad5f4744c920 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=181 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:17:30 -0400 Questions: Why did White have a literate spider save Wilbur rather than allowing Wilbur to be literate, the better to save himself? It ensures that what wins Wilbur his freedom is a lie (there’s nothing special a […]

]]> e296f6c979d1baee185955fc51d364a6 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=156 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:20:21 -0400 I’d never read Dolittle before, and I have to say I was utterly shocked, first by the level of racism and secondly by how just “not good” it was. It was only upon reflection that I realized the extent to which […]

]]> be3c885a0394313a2c707e34860ce165 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=141 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:35:35 -0500 The “Fantastic futures” and “flying Africans” Fielder describes remind me of Christina Sharpe’s “wake work” and, with the reference to wings suddenly appearing, they remind me of Bruno Bettelheim’s […]

]]> 9df93952750893fe7bb81c9bd5dd3250 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=127 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:00:15 -0500 I’m interested in this historic belief that empathy towards animals translates into empathy towards humans. It’s easy to see this isn’t true—however, patriarchal “power of care” does seems to translate. […]

]]> deaa4b8fcd85687ff481f1215481a1e8 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=99 Wed, 23 Feb 2022 03:42:46 -0500 My question: To what extent does animals’ speechlessness contribute to their status as our “elders?” I appreciate LeGuin’s point that animals do communicate, and yet I believe that it is humans’ words, in p […]

]]> 66c4ffff39bd4e23c843795d6fbdd886 https://animalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=86 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:15:09 -0500 I chose the chapter on “difference” with the hope that it would touch on semiotics and the definition of the human. I was not disappointed. The first half of the chapter was deceptively simple, parsing eth […]

]]> d1e2f3d91ed5d8818e9cd2707e6d5bdd https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/765675/ Mon, 17 May 2021 18:39:31 -0400