Chloe Alexander
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Tip: Read the texts and give yourself enough time to finish them. Some readings can be long. If it helps, I also had a doc where I put quotes and my thoughts as I was reading. That helped to make my bluesky posts.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Tip: Read the texts and give yourself enough time to finish them. Some readings can be long. If it helps, I also had a doc where I put quotes and my thoughts as I was reading. That helped to make my bluesky posts.
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Its interesting that there are 2 transformations in this story, and that the main character talks about her sister's transformation as a tougher change than her own. I also love the detail about the sister's feelings of the main characters transformation being expressed as well.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Its interesting that there are 2 transformations in this story, and that the main character talks about her sister's transformation as a tougher change than her own. I also love the detail about the sister's feelings of the main characters transformation being expressed as well.
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Its interesting that with the fire chief the main character leans more towards helping people rather than killing them. Also, the main character also feels happier in this life rather than the last one. The dancing is more positive than at the beggening at the car show; less eerie.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Its interesting that with the fire chief the main character leans more towards helping people rather than killing them. Also, the main character also feels happier in this life rather than the last one. The dancing is more positive than at the beggening at the car show; less eerie.
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I find it interesting that they went back to the apartment. The needle is important to them it seems, but in the end they went back for the dan/firefighter chief, and considering how many people the main character murdered before meeting him its surprising they didnt kill him too.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I find it interesting that they went back to the apartment. The needle is important to them it seems, but in the end they went back for the dan/firefighter chief, and considering how many people the main character murdered before meeting him its surprising they didnt kill him too.
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I do not trust the Dad! I find it weird that the cop/firefighter doesn't question the changes in his kid? Or that he seems so controlling and forceful. Like I know he wouldn't want to loose his kid again, but still. I don't think our main character knows what they signed up for.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I do not trust the Dad! I find it weird that the cop/firefighter doesn't question the changes in his kid? Or that he seems so controlling and forceful. Like I know he wouldn't want to loose his kid again, but still. I don't think our main character knows what they signed up for.
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I think its interesting that they start with killing people by stabbing them just behind the ear, considering this is exactly where her scar is from her accident as a kid, and that in an effort to transform into someone else she shaves her own head like she did for the surgery.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I think its interesting that they start with killing people by stabbing them just behind the ear, considering this is exactly where her scar is from her accident as a kid, and that in an effort to transform into someone else she shaves her own head like she did for the surgery.
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I think its interesting to look at how our protagonist has changed throughout the narrative. In response to trauma she became a criminal herself. It's terrible that it has come to this conclusion, in some ways more so than others, but its interesting to think about how this affects her.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I think its interesting to look at how our protagonist has changed throughout the narrative. In response to trauma she became a criminal herself. It's terrible that it has come to this conclusion, in some ways more so than others, but its interesting to think about how this affects her.
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I think that the generational trauma associated with this story helps a lot to understand the social pressure to be "perfect" in terms of being a mother and wife. The main character feels the need to have a perfect pregnancy, body, and home.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I think that the generational trauma associated with this story helps a lot to understand the social pressure to be "perfect" in terms of being a mother and wife. The main character feels the need to have a perfect pregnancy, body, and home.
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I think that the doppelganger in the story "Ganger (Ball Lightning)" is interesting considering that the ganger is a manifestation of both Cleve and Issy's desires and skins, and through the conflict faced between them we unravel personal conflicts between Cleve and Issy as well. #BSUENG490
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think that the doppelganger in the story "Ganger (Ball Lightning)" is interesting considering that the ganger is a manifestation of both Cleve and Issy's desires and skins, and through the conflict faced between them we unravel personal conflicts between Cleve and Issy as well. #BSUENG490
“Audrey Lorde once wrote, ‘Your silence will not protect you.’ But your silence could protect them. And by them I mean: those who are violent, or those that benefit in some way from silence about violence” (Ahmed, 260). “Silence about violence is violence” (Ahmed, 260-261). #BSUENG490
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
“Audrey Lorde once wrote, ‘Your silence will not protect you.’ But your silence could protect them. And by them I mean: those who are violent, or those that benefit in some way from silence about violence” (Ahmed, 260). “Silence about violence is violence” (Ahmed, 260-261). #BSUENG490
I'm find it very interesting that Hopkinson ends "The Glass Bottle Trick" where they do. They're really is no resolution unlike in "Snake." Maybe Hopkinson didn't mean anything with this ending, but I feel that its important to look how the story ends at the climax of the story.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I'm find it very interesting that Hopkinson ends "The Glass Bottle Trick" where they do. They're really is no resolution unlike in "Snake." Maybe Hopkinson didn't mean anything with this ending, but I feel that its important to look how the story ends at the climax of the story.
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Im glad there was a positive ending with Binti's survival and her still going to the university, and the peace between the humans and Meduse. Im also glad to know the story doesn't end here, because I'm interested to more about the world, how Okwu adjusts to the university, and the Edan. #BSUENG490
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Im glad there was a positive ending with Binti's survival and her still going to the university, and the peace between the humans and Meduse. Im also glad to know the story doesn't end here, because I'm interested to more about the world, how Okwu adjusts to the university, and the Edan. #BSUENG490
“The future of our earth may depend upon the ability of all women to identify and develop new definitions of power and new patterns of relating across difference. The old definitions have not served us, nor the earth that supports us” (Lorde, 293). #BSUENG490
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“The future of our earth may depend upon the ability of all women to identify and develop new definitions of power and new patterns of relating across difference. The old definitions have not served us, nor the earth that supports us” (Lorde, 293). #BSUENG490
I know that this is a shorter book, but I did not expect everyone to be dead so quickly. I also find it very interesting that she starts to bond with Okwu. I can't wait to find out what makes her different from the other humans. And can't wait to find out what her mysterious machine is.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I know that this is a shorter book, but I did not expect everyone to be dead so quickly. I also find it very interesting that she starts to bond with Okwu. I can't wait to find out what makes her different from the other humans. And can't wait to find out what her mysterious machine is.
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Im glad that Cassie is getting a happy ending with Sam, and that she got to see Abby in the end. It felt like there was a lot of things that Cassie didnt get, closure of her past and feelings of family and her relationship to Lexi, but she did get some closure of her life moving forward.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Im glad that Cassie is getting a happy ending with Sam, and that she got to see Abby in the end. It felt like there was a lot of things that Cassie didnt get, closure of her past and feelings of family and her relationship to Lexi, but she did get some closure of her life moving forward.
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“Privilege is not monolithic; it is unevenly distributed. Even among members of one privileged class, other mechanisms of marginalization may mute or reduce privilege based on another status” (Coston and Kimmel, 140). #BSUENG490
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“Privilege is not monolithic; it is unevenly distributed. Even among members of one privileged class, other mechanisms of marginalization may mute or reduce privilege based on another status” (Coston and Kimmel, 140). #BSUENG490
I think its really interesting that French reveals what happened to Lexi so far from the end of the story. It makes me question what is going to happen next to both Cassie and her head space/mental health, and the fantastic four.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think its really interesting that French reveals what happened to Lexi so far from the end of the story. It makes me question what is going to happen next to both Cassie and her head space/mental health, and the fantastic four.
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“I could have kept on punching forever, I wanted this guy's blood filling my mouth, I wanted to feel his face explode into pulp and splinters under my fist and just keep going” (French, 251). I think this is getting very dangerous for Cassie's mental health. #BSUENG490
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“I could have kept on punching forever, I wanted this guy's blood filling my mouth, I wanted to feel his face explode into pulp and splinters under my fist and just keep going” (French, 251). I think this is getting very dangerous for Cassie's mental health. #BSUENG490
I think it's very interesting that there is now an angle of historical events for the motive. As of right now I think this historical motive may be more than one singular event. Perhaps a long line of things that are just now starting to blow up.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I think it's very interesting that there is now an angle of historical events for the motive. As of right now I think this historical motive may be more than one singular event. Perhaps a long line of things that are just now starting to blow up.
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Its interesting how Cassie almost feels as if she lived "Lexi's" life. For example the text states, "...Ive been here before" (French, 108) and "The place Bloody should have looked familiar, all the hours I'd spent staring at photos and video, but it was more than that" (French, 108).
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October 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Its interesting how Cassie almost feels as if she lived "Lexi's" life. For example the text states, "...Ive been here before" (French, 108) and "The place Bloody should have looked familiar, all the hours I'd spent staring at photos and video, but it was more than that" (French, 108).
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“Women’s power to contest the terms of political power is substantial and for this reason it is constantly, though often in a behind-the-scenes way, subjected to interventions designed to limit its potential” (McRobbie, 626).
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October 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Women’s power to contest the terms of political power is substantial and for this reason it is constantly, though often in a behind-the-scenes way, subjected to interventions designed to limit its potential” (McRobbie, 626).
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"The others aren't gone, I got it wrong somehow. They're only hiding; they're still here, for ever and ever" (French, 1). I loved the introduction to the story. It left me wanting more and felt very mysterious and captivating which set up a fantastic tone for the story.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"The others aren't gone, I got it wrong somehow. They're only hiding; they're still here, for ever and ever" (French, 1). I loved the introduction to the story. It left me wanting more and felt very mysterious and captivating which set up a fantastic tone for the story.
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I am glad that the Ada takes the incentive to gain control of her own life. With that being said I feel that this was a very quick transition considering we barley get anything from the Ada throughout the book. Im also disappointed that Ashugara seems to just disappear from the story.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I am glad that the Ada takes the incentive to gain control of her own life. With that being said I feel that this was a very quick transition considering we barley get anything from the Ada throughout the book. Im also disappointed that Ashugara seems to just disappear from the story.
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One of the things that I found most interesting in this section is just how much Ashugara is becoming more "human". Its other sections we got a little more emotion from her in the form of pleasure, anger, and happiness, but now we get to see a more "human" side of her with sadness too. #BSUENG490
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of the things that I found most interesting in this section is just how much Ashugara is becoming more "human". Its other sections we got a little more emotion from her in the form of pleasure, anger, and happiness, but now we get to see a more "human" side of her with sadness too. #BSUENG490