Final Course Reflection   --  A Letter to the Future
Due exam week, November 18, 6:30 pm (PT). 

Your final course reflection asks you to synthesize the different readings, viewings, creative practices, and experiences of this semester. In the spirit of the diverse lenses we have used this semester (“love ethics,” historical, intersectional, feminist, Afro-futurist), our final reflection will use our creative/critical tools to write a letter from the future to the present or past.  
For this assignment, you will assume the viewpoint of a character in Kindred who has time traveled to our present, found themselves on our course Google Drive and Scalar site and specifically your entries (and other colleagues as you would wish) and is writing a letter back to another character from the book to relay what they have found in the future (our present).  The character you select as the narrator can be anyone from the novel (as can be the recipient).  For example, it can be Dana writing to Rufus, or Rufus to Alice, etc.  You might have to play with time a bit to enable your characters to travel and write (pre their demise obviously), but in any event, your character as narrator and recipient should respond “in character” throughout your writing (although they may have the capacity to learn, to emphasize, or to remain resolutely attached to their particular perspective or privilege).   
Your letter can explore any of the class material and projects that you find inspiring and challenging, but you should examine in some detail your own contributions (can be writing or projects).  What would they find striking about the work?  What would find they most surprising or shocking? What was troubling? What was missing? How did the work make them think about the issues taken up in the class of race, class, and gender differently? Or if not, how are the things they found seem to be same as in the past? 
Your response will require your creative skills but also your critical ones in that you will need to think of the strategies employed by the work of you and your colleagues and their impact on someone given their time and perspective.  Thus, you will need to imagine cultural conditions, history, and issues of privilege, structural inequality, and racial/gender justice in your response. You will also need to imagine the possibility of change. Does the encounter with the course materials make a change on the character?  If so, what kind of change and why? If not, why not? 

If you are so inclined/inspired, you may add media to your post. Have fun with this! 

Your essay should be a minimum of 500 words and should be posted  

Post in the Final Reflection Folder in our course Google Drive or on Scalar no later than November 18, 6:30 pm (PT).