Justine Jacob

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

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[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

the central theme of minoritized haunting in this course is quite literally coded into dna. ptsd is often observed in the black community, both from inheritance and through racial trauma experienced through society.

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

the avoidance of treating mental and physical health due to these fears is what continues to affect the black community disproportionately.

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

seneca village was founded by free black americans, but was torn down for the construction of central park. even though the village isn’t there anymore, anti-blackness still exists #summarytweet #SQSF

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

in lecture we talked about how buildings can be destroyed but the place & the memories that occurred there remains. in breakout rooms we talked about how just like old buildings can still exist today...

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

so can the sociopolitical concerns that existed at the same time those buildings were built (if that makes sense?). for example, jewish concentration camps can still be visited today but even though they are not in use, anti semitism still exists.

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

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in i, tituba what was really profound to me was how titubas abortion was written. tituba was sexually active but didn’t want a child. when she got pregnant, her decision to terminate haunted her. she was demonized for terminating by both herself and others

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

women can consent to sex and not to pregnancy, and the decision to abort is not always an easy decision, even for women who don’t want to have a child. and either way, women who get abortions are demonized no matter what

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

1. share what you’re thinking more often, be more confident about what you can contribute
2. always be conscious that everyone and everything has a history
3. read the text through a lens or from a different perspective instead of through your own
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even indigenous languages have identities for queer people, like the Native American Two Spirit or the Samoan Fa’afafine. reality is not bound by language we use to describe it. #SQSF

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

on analytics - there are so many new terms for people within the lgbtq+ community like pansexual, aromantic, demisexual, genderfluid, etc. while these terms are relatively new and popularized, these identities have always existed

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

minoritized groups are only just now beginning to create words that accurately capture their identity because colonial language does not account for much anything other than man and woman, gay and straight

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

a thief to one person is someone struggling to feed their family to another. a drug addict to one person is someone who may have had no support system to another. #readingtweet #SQSF

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Hurston describes how those who have nothing would go to great lengths for money, and in this case may even go as far as to sell their loved ones into an afterlife of labor.
without context, one who could do such a thing would most definitely be viewed as a monster -

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

perhaps moreso than the zombie that arises as a result. i think you can apply this same sort of concept to the correlation of crime and access to resources.

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

the way that louis is never satisfied with any of his male companions and lives a sad lonely life is exactly what i was taught about gay people growing up being raised as a jw
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what if the family dynamic between louis, lestat and claudia alludes to the fear that gay parents will inevitably make their children gay? #viewingtweet #SQSF

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with the neck being an erogenous zone, the inclusion of penetration (in this case, with teeth), and the exchange of fluids, the vampire bite is a metaphor for non heteronormative sex.

[Justine Jacob @justine21859]

the idea that vampires must be eliminated or else the cycle of vampirism will continue stems from the fear that queer people make other people queer, which poses a threat to heteropatriarchy and implies that queerness is a choice rather than an identity that you are born with.