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And at the end of the semester, they ranked their favorite texts that we had read in this survey class and Othello came out on top. And I think it was because they were hungry to have a forum in which they could talk about race openly. But they didn’t know how to do it, without someone saying it’s okay. Jordan, Hugh (14 October 2011). Milestones in Murder: Defining Moments in Ulster's Terror War. Random House. ISBN 9781780573748– via Google Books. Townsend, Larry (1983). The Leatherman's Handbook II. New York: Modernismo Publications. p.26. ISBN 0-89237-010-6.

The modern hanky code is often reported to have started in New York City around 1970, when a journalist for the Village Voice joked that instead of simply wearing a set of keys on one side or the other (then a common code to indicate whether someone was a "top" or a "bottom"), it would be more efficient to subtly announce their particular sexual focus by wearing different colored handkerchiefs. [3] [4] [5] Other sources attribute the expansion of the original red–blue system into today's code to marketing efforts around 1971 by The Trading Post, a San Francisco department store for erotic merchandise, promoting handkerchiefs by printing cards listing the meanings of various colors. [6] O'Donnell, Ian (9 November 2017). Justice, Mercy, and Caprice: Clemency and the Death Penalty in Ireland. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-251943-6– via Google Books. With the advent of the internet, people were better able to connect and explore, express and discover new or existing fetishes.The hanky code expanded to encompass these fetishes, communicating interests through new colors and even new fabrics, such as leather or lace. The color system has also expanded beyond hankies to other accessories. It is not uncommon to have harnesses, singlets, or leather articles in a color derived from the hanky code to indicate a desirable fetish or sexual interest. Sociological Aspect But I wonder if it it really works, or if the baggage that Shakespeare’s name brings with it, which is almost always positive… It’s hard to think of any negative baggage that comes along with Shakespeare’s name in our cultural climate. But I wonder if that kind of force of the positivity of his reputation gets in the way of having real, productive conversations about race. Ian, I’m curious what you think about that.

The hanky code was a semiotic system of sexual advertising popular among the gay leather community of the United States [10] and cruising scene more broadly. Social networking services may have replaced the use of hankies in cruising areas by digitizing the process. By using online platforms, men who have sex with men (MSM) can eliminate harassment and violence that they may face in public. [11] Social networking services for MSM also allow for sub-groups, and for people to list fetishes, and what they are looking for, which is where the replacement of the need for hankies may have come from. [11] In the film Cruising, Detective Steve Burns ( Al Pacino) goes into a store and has the handkerchief code explained to him by a hanky salesman ( Powers Boothe).

There was no single authoritative standard for the code. This table is drawn from Larry Townsend's The Leatherman's Handbook II (the 1983 second edition; the 1972 first edition did not include this list) and is generally considered authoritative. Implicit in this list is the concept of left/right polarity, left as usual indicating the top, dominant, or active partner; right the bottom, submissive, or passive partner. Townsend noted that discussion with a prospective partner was still important because, people may wear a given color "only because the idea of the hankie turns them on" or "may not even know what it means". [8] Color That is, he now recognizes everything that has gone wrong and he says essentially, I want someone to tell my story. But he makes it very clear that he wants that story to be told in a just, fair way. And so we ask ourselves, why does he pause to make that kind of distinction? And then, for me, it became clear, especially if you put this play side-by-side with Hamlet. Hamlet’s dying. He has a friend, Horatio, and, he says, tell my story when I die, and Horatio in that play is the just man. And he knows that he’ll have someone to tell his story; Othello doesn’t. THOMPSON: Well, I think Ian lays it out perfectly, right. I think, our fantasy is that when someone writes a first-person travelogue, that what we’re getting is an actual representation of truth. But, in fact, no. What you get is a kind of recycling of older narratives that you already have in your head, and you’re kind of placing them onto the new environment that you’re experiencing. And I think that plays out in the plays in really fascinating ways. And, especially, in the ways that Shakespeare, I think, tries to shake up certain audience expectations regarding race and then, kind of, fulfills them over and over again, in many different ways. SMITH: Yes, I think on two grounds. One, he thought that perhaps, historically, people weren’t interested in seeing the play in that way in Shakespeare’s time, which, as you just suggested, is really sort of startling, because of the very clear and numerous derogatory references to skin color in the play. And, the second thing I thought that he was trying to do, too, was something perhaps a little bit more powerful and dangerous. That is, he was suggesting that race was not something that people thought about in Shakespeare’s time, and the term “race” itself, he was suggesting, didn’t have the kind of force that it has for us until the 18th century or so, that somehow we were misusing a term that was anachronistic. And so, he was correcting us and saying that we should not be deploying a term in such a careless fashion.

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IAN SMITH: It was actually a seminar. So, there are a group of us participating in the conversation, and somebody asserted, several times actually, that Othello is not about race. My sense is that, he felt that this statement was supposed to be a corrective of some kind. And, so…

Cohen, Gerald; Goranson, Stephen; Little, Matthew (10 October 2017). Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology. Routledge. ISBN 9781351809900– via Google Books. SMITH: And I think Ayanna’s point about skepticism then ties neatly into that point. That is, we need to be far more skeptical about the way we think we can very, sort of easily, tell Othello’s story. We learn from behavioral psychologists, who have done these sort of studies recently, that as a country in the United States, we’re still… 75 percent of us are more likely to be biased towards whiteness. So, if that’s true, then Shakespeare’s argument where he says, well, can we tell stories across sort of racial divides? The data I just cited would suggest to us that that is a kind of very problematic, but also, at the same time, exciting undertaking. Here in the UK, akt is a charity that supports LGBTQ+ people aged 16-25 who are facing or experiencing homelessness or living in a hostile environment. With 77% of LGBTQ+ young people the charity works with believing that coming out at home was the main factor in causing their homelessness and an increase of 71% of people accessing their services in the last year, their support is vital in helping turn their lives around. BARBARA BOGAEV: Ian, I’d like to start with a story that you tell about the time you were on a panel at a Shakespeare conference and it was about Othello, and one of your fellow panelists kept insisting that Othello is not about race. So, tell us about that and your reaction to that. MICHAEL WITMORE: From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited. I’m Michael Witmore, the Folger’s director. This podcast is called “Teach Him How To Tell My Story.”

SMITH: Well, some time ago, I was… You know, I’ve been always taught about the white handkerchief in Othello. You know, Ayanna will tell you, that’s sort of standard thinking on the play. But it never really sort of sat with me completely. And so, a couple years ago, I was thinking more about this, and it occurred to me as I was reading the text, that what we found there actually was a reference in the play where Shakespeare sort of makes it clear, at least to me, that… He speaks about the handkerchief “dyed in mummy.” Glymond, Joanne. "Judicial robes belonging to The Right Honorable Turlough O'Donnell Q.C." www.newry.ie. Stryker, Susan; Van Buskirk, Jim (1996). Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p.18. ISBN 0-8118-1187-5. This podcast, “Teach Him How To Tell My Story,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. We had help from Tobey Shreiner at WAMU-FM in Washington, DC, Neil Hever at radio station WDIY in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Jeff Peters at Marketplace in Los Angeles.