INTERSECTIONALITY
AND PERSPECTIVES PROJECT
"Our project work this semester, and the work we will engage in during class, has us examining and re-examining the lenses through which we see the world, and through which the world has seen us. Our projects and coursework has us questioning the dominant narratives of our history, and our own lives, and the lives of those around us and pushes us to seek the intersectionality in our lives and in our world. It has us applying different lenses to the things we see and read. And, it has us expanding what is even seen through any lens by ensuring that the stories that often go untold, those that are forgotten, ignored, or simply overlooked receive a chance to be added to the larger narrative of our times"
STEREOTYPES AND LENSES
"WHAT I BE" AND EQUITY MANTRA
To create our "What I Be" faces, we thought of words we've used to describe ourselves, as well as words words others have used to describe us. We then took those words and wrote them on our faces.
My Equity Mantra: Don't complain if you don't do anything to fix it. I came up with this because you can change your life to don't like the way it's going. Complaining without doing anything to try and fix your problems is unnecessary because you do have the power to do something.
READINGS FROM CLASS
Throughout the semester we read and annotated several different writings then we had discussions about them. These are the pieces we read:
My Dungeon Shook by James Baldwin
How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
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Not an Elegy for Mike Brown by Danez Smith
The Homeland, Aztlan / El otro Mexico by Gloria Anzaldua
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Who Said It Was Simple by Audre Lorde
Getting Started by Anne Lamott
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To see my annotations click the button to the right.
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Our project is majorly inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story.
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SERIAL; THE PODCAST
In class we've been listening to the podcast, Serial, which is about a murder that occurred in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. While listening, we've learned about storytelling and how to weave different pieces together. |
HOMEGOING; MY BOOK CLUB BOOKHomegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a story about two half-sisters. Effia and Esi "are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishmaen and lives in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle. Unbeknownst to Effia, her sister, Esi, is imprisoned beneath her in the castle's dungeons, sold with thousands of others into Gold Coast's booming slave trade, and shipped off to America, where her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery. One thread of Homegoing follows Effia's descendants through centuries of warfare in Ghana. as the Fante and Asante nations wrestle with slave trade and British colonization. The other thread follows Esi and her children into America. From the plantations of the South to the Civil War and the Great Migration, from the coal mines of Pratt City, Alabama, to the jazz clubs and dope houses of twentieth-century Harlem, right up through the present day, Homegoing makes history visceral, and captures, with singular and stunning immediacy, how the memory of captivity came to be inscribed in the soul of a nation.
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Click on the button to the right to see the process of my Critical Lens Essay based off this book.
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Click on the button to the left to learn more about the process of making my documentary and to see the final product.
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