{"id":595,"date":"2022-10-29T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/?p=595"},"modified":"2022-10-29T19:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T19:00:52","slug":"reading-journal-8-amy-chou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/reading-journal-8-amy-chou\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Journal 8 \u2013 Amy Chou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My essay talks about these following points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bell hooks\u2019 argument on how Paris is Burning acts as a medium of justifying white supremacy<\/li><li>Bell hooks\u2019 argument on how Livingston does not have the right to film a documentary about black queer culture<\/li><li>My perspective on although Livingston might have ignored some details in the documentary that makes the balck audience uncomfortable, but her true intention is to help the underrepresented group.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strength:&nbsp;<ul><li>Includes different perspective from other articles to analyze and examine bell hooks\u2019 argument<\/li><li>Close-read specific examples from both Is Paris Burning? and Paris is Burning<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Possible improvements:<ul><li>Could add more transitions between paragraphs \/ ideas<ul><li>It makes sense to me but I\u2019m not sure it makes sense to other people<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Could include more outside sources on how other people interpret bell hooks\u2019 argument<\/li><li>Cut down repeated wordings<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Writing process<ul><li>Organizing all the ideas into paragraphs is definitely something I struggled the most<\/li><li>I started writing the body paragraphs first, then the conclusion and the introduction<\/li><li>In order to transition better from one paragraph to another, I should try writing my body paragraphs in order instead of jumping around during my writing process<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Skills I wish to learn more in the future<ul><li>Do more diverse type of close reading other than focusing on the diction<\/li><li>How to connect one idea to another more coherently<\/li><li>How to avoid run-on sentences<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My essay talks about these following points: Bell hooks\u2019 argument on how Paris is Burning acts as a medium of justifying white supremacy Bell hooks\u2019 argument on how Livingston does not have the right to film a documentary about black queer culture My perspective on although Livingston might have ignored some details in the documentary&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/reading-journal-8-amy-chou\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Journal 8 \u2013 Amy Chou<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/queerreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}