Read the World Reading You – Discussion <\/p>\n
In this course, we have used the metaphor of nests and cages to describe how culture, identity, and community can support and nurture us at times and can confine and oppress us at other times. This can happen internally within us, empowering us to be or preventing us from being our whole selves and well. This can also happen between people, and we can evaluate the degree to which our relationships are just based on the degree to which others recognize and add to our nest or ignore or reinforce our cages. While some have questioned the need for social discussions of individual identity in spaces such as this, we will reframe this need by considering all the ways in which society already reads our personal identities and responds to us differently based on these perceived identities. And it is these social responses that result in the systemic privilege or oppression that we have been discussing in our time together. <\/p>\n
This week\u2019s four required resources were: Arana (2012), Baldwin (1985), Beck (2013), and Yoshino (2006), and you also read\/watched two of the remaining six resources. Take five minutes now to reflect on the resources you read\/watched and then answer the following questions:<\/p>\n
In what ways can you see the authors describing the way that they understand and embody their sexual identity in contrast to the way that the world reads and responds to the authors sexual identities? How do the authors respond to the ways in which the world reads them? <\/p>\n
How have you seen the world read and respond to your sexual identity or those around you? How have you responded? How have you seen others respond?<\/p>\n
Again, please build from our previous Writing Tip discussions to consider what resonates with you, what questions do you have, what messages are coming up, and how people are seeking to define identity as well as the rules around talking about or being particular identities. <\/p>\n
Once you have written out your response – again this doesn’t need to take more than 5 minutes or 100 words or so – post your response to the discussion board. Please also read other people’s posts and consider whether what they are saying – either about the resource or about their own lived experience – is a window or mirror for you. Post these thoughts as replies to their post if you are willing to connect with them and potentially continue the conversation. In reading others\u2019 responses and as we continue our conversations this week, please remember that we each still have individual power and agency to know ourselves, to be ourselves, and to choose how we respond to how society reads and responds to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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