Category: Sophia Curran

Volunteer Request: Sexual Violence Training Program http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/now/2013/05/volunteer-request-sexual-violence-training-program/ The New York Asian Women’s Center in partnership with the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be conducting a training to build awareness of and change attitudes and responses to sexual assault among students in New York City […]

Hey everybody, I’m so sorry and disappointed to have missed everyone’s presentations this week. I was, and am only just beginning to recover, from being sick to the point of incapacitation. I’m sure it was an inspiring class session and I look forward, at least, to reading everyone’s work following the semester’s end. I’m writing […]

Of everything we’ve read this semester, I have to admit that Middlesex has been the least gripping for me. Maybe it’s the pace, Cal’s voice, switching from “Angles in America,” predominantly dialogue, to lengthy prose, or maybe it’s something in me–my disintegrated family, my hurting heart–that makes it the wrong book to read at the […]

While reading Middlesex, a certain quote, the origin of which I cannot place, kept popping into my head: “We accept the love we think we deserve.” Our sense of deserving in life is shaped the by the shame we cannot overcome. The characters in Eugenides’ novel each negotiate the embodiment of this feeling, preoccupied by […]

I mentioned in my blog post having experienced a vocabular coincidence between reading Sula and “Angels in America.” I had to look up the word ‘gabardine’ (a strong and smooth fabric) when reading the former, where it was used to describe the pants worn by Ajax and the Edna Finch ice cream parlor crew. Subsequently, it became […]

Since finishing Sula last week, the story, its characters, and the person I perceive in the author have stuck in my thoughts. In fact, I’ve found some fascinating commonalities between Toni Morrison’s novel and the play by Tony Kushner, beyond the fact that the two writers share a first name. While reading the former, I […]

Holler, if anyone want to share this scene with me. It’s the one where Roy Cohn’s doctor, Henry, first gives him his AIDS diagnosis.

Rereading Toni Morrison’s foreword to Sula at the end of the novel was indispensable in cementing my comprehension of the story. While I understand that the desire to have an audience consider a text alongside a set of principles requires a strategic placement of them, Morrison’s preface doesn’t do justice to the words that follow; […]

In Part I of Lolita, I was most struck by Humbert Humbert’s multi-faceted psychological perception of himself. I focused my previous post around Humbert the Adam figure vs. Humbert the Devil figure, and in class we discussed a number of his other manifestations. Since entering into Part II of Lolita, a new archetype has occurred […]