Mercer University Atlanta Non Verbal Communication Discussion

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Is your identity given or created? | Marcus Lyon | TEDxExeter

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The Moth Presents Tig Notaro: R2 Where Are You?

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Discussion Maybe you can watch clips on the internet if you do not have HBO

This week, we watched a comedian using her body more clearly as a piece of the performance than any of the previous comedians we’ve seen so far. In her HBO special, Boyish Girl Interrupted (which some of you may have chosen to watch), Notaro removes her shirt to show her body after a double mastectomy. In removing her shirt, Notaro forced the audience to confront the reality of a scared body. Still, Notaro’s use of her body was complicated by the fact that her work did not participate in victimhood or virtue signaling. In her other work, Notaro uses her body as a prop to build material from and against in a similar fashion.

For this week, consider the other comedians we’ve seen so far: what social issues have the comedians challenged by offering a more nuanced (or less stereotypical) representation of a specific social issue tied to a specific intersectional subjectivity? Write a 250-word initial post that identifies the way a comedian challenges popular conceptions of a certain social issue in ways that move beyond the spoken material. For example, does a comedian’s clothing or the set design or the location of the special or the lighting or pre-special skit or any other element in the special challenge our notions of a social issue affecting a specific group of people?