1. Student read Baby Suggs's magnificent sermon in the Clearing so beautifully that the class just sat in wonder.
2. We discussed fluids (& fluidity) in the text: water, blood, milk, sweat, pus, mud, semen.
3. The class focused on Morrison's depiction of slavery's effects on Black women, especially their bodies and babies. "The child shall follow the condition of the mother" was the legal framework of #slavery that incentivized & monetized rape.
"There has, of course, been wall-to-wall coverage since the shots rang out, but one thing that seems unexplored is how this all looks to the rest of the world. They see what could have been the best democracy on earth destroyed by madness, in a land where guns are everywhere and a callous elite media dons formalwear to toast its own humiliation by our narcissist king."