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For the third community engagement, I chose Alive 2.0 festival: Radical Form / Radical Politics: Contemporary Experiments in Writing. In the first part of the event, every student shared his or her own poem. Those were the poems written by themselves and the poems were workshopped during the classes. I was impressed by those poems and I could feel how concentrated the students were. In the second part, students could share the poems they liked. I had a deep impression on a poem shared by a student. The poem was The Argonauts from Maggie Nelson. It is a book with all the memories. I believe that there are some connections between her work and feminist studies. She uses powerful language to address the desire of love and be loved. As she mentions the main story which is about romantic. Describing the process about love is extremely touching. In the part 1, she talks about the conversation with a friend. And the friend offers some suggestions. I like the format because it seems like more realistic and easy to follow. For the book, Maggie is highly praised by the press. According to The Boston Globe, “Reading Maggie Nelson is like watching a high-wire act. Her books are inspiring... Because of her dazzling sentences, I will read whatever the daredevil writes. She cozies up to ideas unlike any other American writer”. I am impressed by her words not only because of the words choosing themselves, but the emotions behind them. The part I like most is that the words about motherhood. She uses unique perspective to talk about a common thing, which is brilliant. Gender identity may be changeable. It’s interesting when she brings the discussion that “gender identity can be changed” in her book. Maggie believes that women are not just fertility machines. She is proud of being a mother and enjoys the spirit of motherhood. But she thinks that others have no rights to judge a mother and decide what a mother can do or can’t do. Silvia Federici also mentions the theories about gender in her article,  “Wages Against Housework” in Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (15-22), At the beginning of the article the Silvia points out that “It is important to recognize that when we speak of housework we are not speaking of a job as other jobs, but we are speaking of the most pervasive manipulation, the most subtle and mystified violence that capitalism has ever perpetrated against any section of the working class.”(p.2) Indeed, housework is actually not like the other works in the world. However, there is an argument that a woman will be a qualified wife only if she could take care of all the houseworks. There are some pressures for women that if one loves her husband and the family, she will finish the housework perfectly, which is called “a labour of love”. As far as I am concerned, women should never being treated like a servant. A perfect relationship is about equal. Maybe there are some women struggling in the so-called ‘successful’ marriage. I agree with Silvia that this situation is a fraud. And do not make this kind of fraud go under the name of love. Work Cited Silvia Federici, “Wages Against Housework” in Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (15-22) Nelson, Maggie. The Argonauts. Graywolf Press, 2016.