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A Student Response From:EmilThis week’s prompt of The Watched made me think about an art piece that I made in high school. It was a performance piece called “How to Avoid Interaction” where I had a polyester cloud on my head, blocking my vision and hearing but not stopping others from being able to see me. It makes me think …

A Student Response From:ReneThis has been a month of death. My nephew passed from cancer, and two friends from my past died of Covid-19. Neither of my old friends were vaccinated and both lived in Texas. I hadn’t spoken to them in a while, but I was told they were exercising their freedom. John Ceballos was an old paratrooper, much …

A Student Response From:CristianDoubt can lead to the death of a dream. Can I really do it? Unfortunately, doubt is a part of the human species. To question whether or not you have the ability to do something. The flames of uncertainty can cause you to lose a part of yourself. But, to rise from the ashes can lead to …

A Student Response From:CristianUnderstanding your own identity is being able to ignore societies’ expectations about you. Because you are simply human, you are expected to conform to what is considered normal. But conformity means that there is a lack of expression, lack of your imagination, lack of free will. Your identity is the way you see yourself, but how can …

A Student Response From:EmilSuch an emphasis is put onto labels. Humans want to categorize, humans want to put things into boxes. And when things don’t fit into these boxes, they get uncomfortable. When things want to move boxes, they get uncomfortable. And there’s a focus on what boxes you “belong” to, what communities will accept you, what communities will never …

A Student Response From:ReneOn Friday, while sitting in class, I received a text that my nephew had finally succumbed to the cancer that had been eating away at his body all the four years he was on this earth. I think of him as I look at my foot, thinking about the surgeries I’m scheduling between classes and how hard …

A Student Response From:MaximusWhen reading this weeks prompt, I connect heavily to the notion of materialism. Rose notes that she is defined by nouns, gender and BMI, as well as letting that affect our own brain on the treatment what we claim in this life. When reading this, it challenges me to realize my depth, my limits and my desires, …

A Student Response From:NolanWhen it comes to my safe place i always consider my home of the Acoma Pueblo whether it be where i grew up there? or on top of the mesa of Acoma and Tohatchi which is on the navajo reservation, I can say these are my safe places because of how much comfort they bring physically but …

A Student Response From:TeraI have trouble with the idea of self. I went to catholic school as a child and was not allowed to question the teachings of the catholic church as well as any person in a position of power. I had to accept things I didn’t believe in as truth and was not allowed to think freely. I …