EN 3177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chinese Classics, Armed-Forces Artificer
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Topics: banned comics: censorship, sexuality, and comics, bodies at work: the artist and the artificer, bodies at work: re-drawing interextualities, embodied form: bechdel"s process, banned comics: censorship, sexuality, and comics. Gay rights are like comics in that they"ve both grown to prominence in the last 30 years. Dikes to watch out for, for 25 years. Book shows that queer lives have value. Some people really disliked it and made petitions to get the book taken off shelves. Visualness of comic that makes it so controversial. University of charleston recommended the text and lost government funding despite attempting to educate adults. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death: bodies at work: the artist and the artificer. Drawing and creating is erotic for her. House is an elaborate artificer that conceals the secrets of the home. She exposes those secrets using a different kind of artifice: bodies at work: re-drawing interextualities.
