Logan Weidner

He/Him. Twitter made for class discussions. You can follow my real twitter @little_wolve

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1. Seek out opinions of those with different lived experiences

2. Think about WHY you think what you do

3. Try not to think in one way; realize when you're in a rabbit hole and try to dig yourself out

#SQSF

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What is "real" empirically was never interesting because asking implies that the realities that individuals experience in their minds are not valid. I think this applies to Beloved because regardless of her empirical state, she is very real to the characters in the book. #SQSF

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When we say "It's boring to think about whether Beloved is real or not" I think it can be sort of confusing. I guess the way I can justify this statement is to think about beloved in the same way I think about the "machine" in the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

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@marysiacole That's an interesting point, I think it additionally shows how trauma can rip people out of the present and make jarring alterations to someone's reality.

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"Nothing ever dies" is kind of an odd statement when taken at face value, but when viewed in the context of Beloved it becomes very reasonable that many generational traumas are not something that can be easily forgotten. #SQSF #ReadingTweet

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The main thing I notice when Benjamin and Tituba talk of their oppression, Benjamin is able to "beat" Tituba through the use of history, something that was taken from Tituba's people. #SQSF #ReadingTweet

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This quote really speaks to me for whatever reason. These people who owe nothing to society; who have had their livelihoods, homes, and cultures taken from them still feel the impending guilt of being non-productive that our society imposes on everyone. #ReadingTweet

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#SQSF #ResearchTweet I found an archived article from the new York Times directly linking AIDS with gay men during its discovery. https://t.co/voKdXNxiSY

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I found it interesting that vampires were "infecting" others by having them drink blood. This paired with the association with queer men particularly aligns how they were treated during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, when it went by the more problematic title: GRID.

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I think it really says something about how oppressive culture can be that people feel they need to join a vampire cult to express their sexuality. Like if that's their kink, cool, but I don't really know if it's like that for a lot of these people. #SQSF #ReadingTweet

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I never realized that homosexuals were so often nazis in film. I do remember it being really weird that the nazi character in Dragon Ball (the original, not Z) was seen as gross not because he was a nazi, but because he was gay. I guess that wasn't happening in a vacuum. #SQSF

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And by this I mean the first humanoid ones, not the early homunculus-like ones.

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It's kind of odd how the early vampire is so similar to the current zombie. #SQSF #ReadingTweet

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I find it really funny that True Blood has such heavy handed commentary on judging groups of people while villainizing/looking down on "uppity women", drug traffickers, and sex workers. #SQSF #ReadingTweet

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@likes_skylar You're totally right. When the man zombifies Madeline and goes into a monologue about how he was surprised a zombie wasn't what he wanted, I was like, "no shit, sherlock".

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@marysiacole Yeah I almost fucking died at the screams

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@zozozaira @marysiacole lmao

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And then of course the colonialist white woman told the man that informed her of this history that they were lucky to be taken. Still, giving time to the very real history of Hattian people at all was a pleasant surprise all things considered.

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I was kind of surprised by the representation of people who's families were taken from Africa in "I Walked With a Zombie". It was fairly clear that the impact this had on these people was severe. #SQSF #ReadingTweet