Season 1 Episode 6: Genesis 3, Gender, and Power

Written By Jeanne Petrolle

Poet Vievee Francis contributed a poem entitled “Loving Me” to Nikole-Hannah Jones’s collection The 1619 Project. Jeanne and Jennifer discuss Francis’s use of Genesis 3 in this poem, which explores gender, sexuality, and power.

Works Cited and Consulted:

Nikole-Hannah Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World Press, 2021.

Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in Visual and Other Pleasures, 2nd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Angela Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority. WM. B. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2021.

Jeanne Petrolle
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