To start, please select a “project” where you hope to apply our course themes, frameworks, or approaches. *Will give my Canvas access below to find what themes were explored in this class*
Our use of “project” within this course is expansive, and your project may be professional, scholarly, or more personal. For example, the projects that I am currently nourishing include my dissertation, a professional shift into healing work, and mothering whole people in ways that do not affirm systems of oppression as I heal from and disrupt intergenerational trauma.
** I would recomend being a parent being the project**
Next, select a solo activity from Chapter 20 from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (linked in files) that will support your feminist project.
For example, Gumbs offers the following “refuse” activity: “Inspired by one of the marine mammals featured in the “Refuse” section of this book or the entire book, choose an area in your life in which to say “no” this week.” I might engage this practice by saying “no” to requests that distract from or impede my feminist mothering project. I might pull from the wisdom of the Balaenoptera acutorostrata as I reflect on the meanings and possibilities that emerge when I prioritize a feminist project that may not be visible or legible to those beyond my home (Gumbs 53).
To close, you will reflect on how this practice and approach deepen, shift, expand, or otherwise inform your understanding of feminist theories and their work in the world. Your reflection should minimally include or attend to the following (250-500 words)
Any context that your audience may need to understand your specific project and its relationship to Black feminisms or other themes, frameworks, and approaches from our course.
Illuminate connections to our course themes and frameworks by incorporating at least two theoretical supports from our course learning materials or your research.
A personal reflection that attends to your selected activity, how it nourishes or furthers your specific feminist project, and how engaging it shapes your understanding of feminism and its work in the world.
