100 college things 74

[alexseanchai]

Your final project asks you to choose a topic within Queer Studies, engage in research around this topic, and create a project that you can implement outside of this classroom. For instance, you might decide to create a podcast about LGBTQ issues, design a workshop for a campus or off-campus event, or write a song about an historical event. It can be anything you would like to do, as long as it focuses remains within Queer Studies. The purpose of this assignment is for you to apply classroom learning to a context outside of this class. This assignment asks you to focus on a particular audience, for a particular purpose, and within a clear context of production.

This is literally all the guidance we have on this project. Gaaah.

I have emailed the prof to ask if a short story would qualify.

ETA: Yeah um "I'll post more details in the next few days" does not really constitute an answer to the question.

Comments

[davidgillon]

Well, isn't a song just a short story set to music and with the occasional rhyme?

[alexseanchai]

More like a drabble, really, and usually with a chorus, but yeah, something like that.

[madgastronomer]

If it would help, Lightyear magazine has put out a call for submissions for its upcoming Queers Destroy Science Fiction issue.

[alexseanchai]

I saw that, and I don't know if it helps or not. (Seanan McGuire will read my story if I submit it. That's really scary. What if she doesn't like it? What if she does?) And if a short story won't suffice for the portfolio, it's--not quite a moot point, because I have to write a short story for creative writing class anyway, but I have words on that story already and it's emphatically fantasy. Which isn't to say I won't change my mind and write sci-fi, but. And I'm babbling, I'll shut up.

[madgastronomer]

I understand that! It turns out that Margaret Atwood reads The Toast regularly, and so there's a really good chance she read my piece about Ratatouille, and that freaks me out. And I don't even like Atwood much. She's a good writer and all, but her snotty attitude about genre fiction pisses me off. How much more so when it's someone you really like and respect? Terrifying.

[silveradept]

That's very open-ended. I think they assume you have some preferred form of delivery that you just are going to slot the content into, which isn't always the case.

[alexseanchai]

Shrug. I suppose I have to wait for the more details.

Project

[dialecticdreamer]

Can you create a poll or other method for collecting replies for an audience-directed story?

Ask the people willing to PM you using a DW id, and mention their gender and orientation, then /request some part of the story.

Compare the requests from the major categories, and see if you have enough data to suggest preferences within groups and compare between them.

In the meantime, the story progresses as both entertainment and bait for more responses.

Re: Project

[alexseanchai]

I have enough trouble writing to prompts that I don't think I could genuinely do an audience-directed story. (*eyes ysabetwordsmith's output with envy*) I appreciate the suggestion, though.

[tptigger]

Please tell me this isn't the class that can't manage to get your name/pronouns right.

[alexseanchai]

No, this set of classmates hasn't slipped once. The other three classes all have. Not this one.