I. Go-Around: Say your name, your department/discipline... and a tell us about your process for working through/completing the reading responses (and the readings).  Show and Tell... if ya like (there are many different modalities and experimentations now!  Niiiiice!)

II. Name Game: Can you say everyone's name in the room? We will do this until everyone has had the chance to embarrass themselves.  Congratulations to Aderinsola, Alexis, Brittany, Flora, Jomaire, and Kashima, Loren, and Solange... who have done the deed!

III. Announcements & Etc...

• Let's take a look behind the scenes of the course website... we'll talk more about the first project deadline (a bio page) next week
• All class emails will be BCCed.  Open emails are just not a safe space for women and/or LGBTQ students in any classroom in the university today.  Please plan to share your announcements in class.  You can send flyers/events to be posted to the website/agenda.  You can also send an email to Carmen that will get BCC-forwarded (please indicate if you prefer not to be included on such emails also).
• Anna's Annoucement: 'Invisible No More: Resisting Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color in Troubled Times" . . . featuring Barbara Smith, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Reina Gossett, Mariame Kaba & Robyn Maynard

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• Lindsay Albracht's Announcement: CompComm Fall 2017 (click here for full schedule of upcoming talks by Ofelia García, Jessica Yood, and Baz Dresinger)

IV. Introduction and chapter 1 of Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alex Weheliye
with Flora de Tournay

V. Unpacking Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick Together

1. McKittrick suggests we think in terms of geographies rather than texts, narratives, experiences, etc
   
2. Wynter's Man 1 makes Black Women/Queer as unthinkable, unimaginable, unrecognizable, unmapped... and therefore foundational to the social order and representative of a possible conceptual shift (vs. merely being at the margins, seeking representation, inclusion, or centering)
   
3. The world's axis spins on Miranda as the logical place of desire, although her domination is mitigated by Prospero/white-male-inheritance [Critical remixes of The Tempest are a Black Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, but Wynter adds in a new mix]
   
4. Settler/Native/Slave is the foundational set of relations undergirding western thought and life
5. Your points...

WNBA Players

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Raianna Brown, Georgia Tech U

VI. Beyond Miranda's Meanings? Alternative geographies?