2. AGENDA
O Presentation: Terms
O In-class writing:
O Global Revision Writing Workshop:
Essay #2
O You must have three copies of your essay to remain in
class today.
O Author Lecture: Leslie Feinberg
3. Terms
O Social Identity: Social groups
that people belong to regarding
race, gender, sex, class, age,
sexual orientation, religion,
ability, and national origin.
O Voyeurism: when those with
privilege find elements of
entertainment in the lives of
people that are different or less
privileged than their own; the
act of being an onlooker to
another’s life that is less
powerful without relating to it
O Climax: the moment in a play,
novel, short story, or narrative
poem at which the crisis comes
to its point of greatest intensity
and is resolved. It is also the
peak of emotional response
from a reader or spectator, and
it usually represents the turning
point in the action.
O Essay: a short literary
composition on a particular
theme or topic, usually in prose
and generally thoughtful and
interpretative. This type of
writing is devoted to the
presentation of the writer’s own
ideas and generally addresses
a particular aspect of the
subject.
4. Peer Review – ARGUMENTATIVE
ESSAY: Passing
You will respond to each essay on
another sheet of paper or on the back of
the essay you are reviewing. Make sure
to put your name down as the reviewer.
5. Instructions: Read all three papers aloud BEFORE
WRITING (this is too ensure that everyone has time to
respond to each paper). As you are reading along, quickly
mark any obvious errors or typos in the text. Do not offer
advice about how to fix the issues; just identify them for
now. After you have read all three, read silently, looking for
the parts of the essay we discussed in class. Make
questions or comments on the writing in the margins. Then,
please answer the following questions as completely as
possible (on the back of the essay or on another sheet of
paper). Do not just give the paper and writer the stamp of
approval, or a “yes” or “no” answer—you will be doing your
partners a disservice. When you are done, return the essay
and your comments to the writer.
6. Get into Groups of Three
O Remember, read all three essays
aloud first!
O Answer all questions thoughtfully.
O Do not edit the papers you are reading (no
grammar or punctuation).
O We will work about an hour and a half, so
plan your time accordingly.
7. Leslie Feinberg
O Leslie Feinberg came of age
as a young butch lesbian in
the factories and gay bars of
Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1960s.
Since that time, Feinberg has
been a grass roots activist and
a journalist. Ze is known in the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender movements in the
U.S. and countries around the
world. The lesbian magazine
Curve named Feinberg one of
the “15 Most Influential” in the
battle for gay and lesbian
rights.
8. Feinberg is an outspoken opponent of traditional Western
concepts about how a “real man” or “real woman” should look
and act. Feinberg supports the use of gender-neutral
pronouns such as “ze” instead of he or she, and “hir” instead
of him or her.
Feinberg is well-known for forging a strong bond between the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and
other oppressed minorities. “Everyone who is under the gun
of reaction and economic violence is a potential ally,”
Feinberg says.
Stone Butch Blues (1993), Feinberg’s widely acclaimed first
book, is a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian
questioning her gender identity. It received an American
Literary Association Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature
and the Lambda Small Press Literary Award.
9. HOMEWORK
O Reading: Stone Butch Blues (131-195)
O Post #14: Revise and post essay #2
O Post #15: Choose a few lines from Stone
Butch Blues and explain how and why they
stood out to you. Be sure to post your
quotation above your response
O Bring: One clean, revised copy of your draft
O Studying: Terms (Exam Class 13)
