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Presentations - in written form - must be in by November 7.
 
Oral presentations follow according to the schedule below.
The substitutes - presentation of the following week - must be prepared to present their texts in case the candidate for this day is absent.

Date
Presentation
 
Nov. 09
P. K.
'This City Is a Monster'
Substitute: November 16
Nov. 16
E.-F. W.
'My Name Is Not Cool Anymore'
Substitute: November 23
Nov. 23
A. W.
'Where Is Home, If the Place You Come From No Longer Exists?'
Substitute: November 30
Nov. 30
E.-M. A.
'New York Was Our City on the Hill'
Substitute: December 07
Dec. 07
St. K.
'Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl's Habits'
Substitute: December 14
Dec. 14
P. G.
'I Breathed in the Air of a Million Misfits'
Substitute: December 21
Dec. 21
G. U. Sch.
'My Life at the Pink Pussy Cat'
Substitute: January 11
Jan. 11
M. K.
'My Name Is Not Cool Anymore'
Substitute: January 18
Jan. 18
M. P.
'New York Was Our City on the Hill'
Substitute: January 25
Jan. 25
D. K.
'My Life at the Pink Pussy Cat'
Substitute: February 01
Feb. 01
Ph. W.
'This City Is a Monster'
Substitute: February 08
Feb. 08
A. H.
'A Lifetime of Living Half a Life'
 

Here is Yours Truly's presentation of  'No One Cared If I Kissed Girls' plus a reminder of some important words and phrases in the text. Develop your own thoughts as to why Staceyann Chin chose to emigrate to the U.S. and whether she is happy in Brooklyn.

 

Staceyann Chin was born in Jamaica and is of black and Chinese ancestry. She has lived in NYC for more than seven years. When she is away on business, she can’t wait to return to Brooklyn for the electricity of living she senses there.

Life as a lesbian back in Jamaica was life-threatening for her because homosexuality is an abomination there. She did not want to live a closeted life or risk being raped or even killed if she chose to be “out”. So she moved to Brooklyn after she had finished her degree at the University of the West Indies at 24. Looking back she says that the sheer lesbian liberation of the first years in New York did not allow much room for sorrow in adjusting from island to urban. When you are young and burning with the urgency of sexual freedom and the flesh, things like culture and grandmothers and accents that mimic your own mean less than they do at 30.

Staceyann Chin prefers Brooklyn to any other place in NYC because only there she can enjoy life to the full. She is a traveler at heart and considers Brooklyn her home because she as any other person can live a free life where no one cares if you kissed a girl or preached violently on the J train. At the same time Brooklyn offers her the chance to live in the center of the sounds and the smells that assure her she is still unequivocally Jamaican.

 

buzz words: mecca (fig.); apple (fig.); to escape the atrocities; homosexuality in Jamaica is not just a social taboo, it is an abomination; to fake heterosexuality; New York was my godsend; did not allow much room for sorrow in adjusting from island to urban;

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