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Fuck.

I'm sick.

I was so hoping I would get through more of the semester without a cold, but considering that about 75% of my hallmates and classmates have been sick, I should've known that would be in vain.

*buries head under blankets and moans* *metaphorically* *because she has class in half an hour*

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*reading Said's Orientalism*

Okay, stuff I feel obliged to try and bring up in class tomorrow (whether there's time to discuss it, or whether it'll be interesting to anyone but me and the instructor and maybe some of the PTMs, is debatable, but):

• PotC3: Singapore in general, Sao Feng in particular
• Firefly, though what in particular I'm still figuring out. Lack of Asian representation in main cast, definitely. (And thank you so much shati for the help finding references!)
  
• Neil Gaiman's "Ramadan."

And then when we get to black representation, I can bring up PotC2 and the problematic natives!

I like this class so much. We watched episodes of "The Chappelle Show" to talk about how whiteness can be represented, same as blackness or Asian-ness or anything else. Which reminds me, I really need to type up that Richard Dyer piece and see what y'all think of it. Half the people in class disliked it, but I thought it articulated some of my own feelings really well.