Hello Class, 
This is your last blog posting.  I attached a prompt along with a series of youtube.com links to songs.  Please listen to the songs and answer the prompt.  Due Monday Dec 16th.  
Ashe,
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Blog Post #2

Examine the protagonist of Bear Cub, Pedro, within the context of queer desire, sexuality, and the U.S.' history of criminalizing disease.  Read the two files uploaded to Week 10 and reflect on how Pedro fits within these contexts.  Write honestly on how you feel about seeing an HIV+ person who is probably not undetectable (meaning the virus is active enough to be transmitted) have anonymous sex without disclosure?

BLOG POST #1

Cite two passages (one or two sentences) from chapter 2 and chapter 7 from Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza that you think relate to the class.  [One paragraph per chapter]

How does Queer Aztlan: re-Formation of Chicano Tribe by Cherrie Moraga contribute to the discourse of the class?   Cite two examples. What is the debt Moraga states is owed to lesbians? [one paragraph] 

I asked you to write down your reaction to the documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP.  What was that reaction?  What did you know, if anything, about the HIV/AIDS movement?  What are two scenes or people who stood out to you?  How does Gay Sex in the 70s complement United in Anger?  [one paragraph]

Why do you think I am stressing the popular culture of the era (1970s to early 1990s), the music in particular?  [2 or 3 sentences]

What is your reaction to the film All About My Mother?  The film references a possible cure to AIDS through the third Esteban (Jesus Christ)...is this a sign of hope or irresponsible film making?