Speeches

I had expected the papers that people were writing to be pretty spread out between all of the intersections that could be created between the many groups we had to choose from.  I was suprised how many people did the intersection of gender and violence. I think literally all of the people on this first day with the exception of me were either doing gender and violence or race and class.  I guess these two are kind of the more obvious options looking back at it. These two topics are also not very controversial. It also makes sense that a lot of people chose gender and violence because a lot of the readings that we've done throughout this semester have been about the subject. I liked Marissa's presentation. I thought it took a lot of courage to critisize "christian values, especially in a presentation to a class in Texas and also becuase a few people in this class have talked about their religious beliefs. I think the presentations in general would have been more interesting if there was more diversity in the topics. Maybe it would be a good idea in the future to have students sign up for topics and limit the amount of people that can discuss the same topic.