W7: Protect the children

Week 7: Protect the children
In week 7 we explored "Protect the Child" rhetoric in relation to three specific historical contexts: the 'Save Our Children' campaign, AIDS and the Ryan White bill, and Palestine/US militaristic imperialism. During class students split into groups and then presented on their subtopic to the whole group.

• Mini-Presentation: Amahl Bishara, “The Aida Camp Alphabet”*
• All:
• Save Our Children
• McCreery, "Save Our Children/Let Us Marry" (cw: queerphobic rhetoric)
• Watch:
• Anita Bryant on Constitutional Revision No 2 (cw: queerphobia)
• Anita Bryant Confronted in 1977 (cw: queerphobia)
• Optional, but it’s funny: Squeeze a Fruit for Anita
• Ryan White CARE Act, Analysis
• Electronic Intifada, “Pinkwashing and the Gay International”
• Pick one topic:
• AIDS/Ryan White
• Donovan, "The Problem With Making AIDS Comfortable"
• Reagan’s AmFar Speech, on trunk or watch here: Reagan Speech Video
• AIDS timeline (notice where Reagan’s speech fits into this)
• Fatal Advice, “The Erotics of Innocence” thru pg 77 (cw: pedophilia, queerphobia)
• Watch: Michael Jackson, Gone Too Soon
• Palestine/US militaristic imperialism
• Against Equality*:
• Queer Eyes on What Prize
• Pictures at an Execution (cw: violence)
• Pick another article from “Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars”
• Sarah Schulman, "Israel and Pinkwashing"


Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PE30-kozmmN5cWKmjfSExNOpJPZDcJAKKGFo17ftll4/edit?usp=sharing