turning to face the world

Carine meeting 10-14-08
(includes notes while we met & notes from before she was there)

* Meridian: 19th century spiritual narratives (talk to Brown's article); the first turn
(disswide, it's a pattern of transformation)

* defense: petition form, schedule, pick a month
(spring break, no NEMLA, mid March/beg of April, no Tuesday & Thursday

* send final Meridian

* next chapter: Salt Eaters
Lorde
intro & conc
then: final draft

*email Donna Weir-Soley Univ. of Illinois Press

*email SAFER to CM

heard somebody blasting "The End of the Innocence" in a Jeep

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other Walker chapter: these are the ways in which TCP is foundational for NoTH
What is the reason this isn't useful/good? --dislocation from community

Lorde & Rich
entering self, choosing community, dialogue of selves in common worldview/agenda

Lorde later
healing self, focusing clarity

Meridian
first choice of spirituality
healing civil rights trauma; being able to connect

Salt Eaters
diaspora & community connection: healing is Minnie, is Africanist healing
nationalism thru spirituality

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INTRO: map of crit: coalitions & spirituality & embodiment trauma
turning points/choices: to commit, choose control (rev. Susan's comments)

CONCLUSION: This is how to clear the path of embodiment, to explore the more esoteric/spiritual elements of late 20th century feminism, and to resolve/abate the navel-icious preoccupation with "the state of feminism"--it is not an object or a body whose health can/should be diagnosed. It is a multiplicity of bodies who possess themselves dynamically, not mastering but shaping, interacting and intersecting. This is how I see it, this is the truth that seers me. This is something changed and chosen, the true self because it is commanded/steered.