Week 12: Speaking, Silence, and Relationships

Dear Class,

This week we have two different foci: Being Silenced Essays, and the beginning of Angels in America. As I've been considering how to have you blog this week, I've started to think about how these two elements connect, and I think I have it: relationships. Each one of you has chosen some story to tell for your Being Silenced Project, and these stories are steeped in human relationships to one another, whether they are children and warriors, different races, or different genders. Angels in America, if you are unfamiliar with the premise, is about homosexual issues, especially AIDs and "passing," in the 1980s. This is a play centralized in relationships: sexual, emotional, business, political, and so on.

So, for this blog, I'd like you to reflect on how silence and speaking factor into your own relationships, or those you see out in the world. You can relate your reflection back to Angels in America, Persepolis, or Pygmalion, if you like. Try to tell a story of something you've seen, heard or, or has happened to you. I know that several of you have shared stories before, but this time, I want you to focus on how speaking and silence effect or relate to relationships, in whatever form they come in

Ms. Lambke