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 …
Week 2 Emil
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 …
Week 2 Rene
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 …
Week 2 Maximus
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, …
Week 2 Fiona
Chrysalides are made from a butterfly’s past life; it’s the husk of a caterpillar that houses the change of its lifetime, but for moths it’s different. A moth’s cocoon is a silk wrapping of its own creation: a self-made home. I think I am equally stuck in either metaphorical stage of metamorphosis. I am noise, I am color. A contradiction of exoskeleton and jelly.