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Week 2 Cristian

jasonROSEBSIMPSONadmin — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:14:44 +0000

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Cristian

Understanding 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 we see ourselves when everyone else’s eyes are looking at us. What are they thinking of you? DO they think you are weird? Am I normal? Others around you influence your own identity and self-image. They plant thoughts and images in your mind that you don’t want to hear. They judge you, putting your imagination on trial for being itself. Do you really own yourself? But is it bad to be yourself when everyone else is conforming? The simple act of expressing yourself, no matter how small it is, can open your own eyes to your true self. All eyes are on you, how will you act? Will you conform or allow your identity to be itself. Even though they will all watch you, its okay to be yourself.

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Week 2 Emil

jasonROSEBSIMPSONadmin — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:12:10 +0000

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Emil

Such 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 accept you. Arguments on what it takes for someone to be a man, or a woman, or queer, or trans. There are rules that people expect you to obey to fit into these labels, and if you don’t meet every requirement then you don’t belong. What does it take to say someone is or isn’t a man, what right does a stranger have to dictate this? What right does your family? Just because you might be someone’s “little girl” or “sweet daughter” and they gave birth to you, does that give them the right to say that you aren’t what you know and say you are? Do they own you, do they own your identity?

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Week 2 Rene

jasonROSEBSIMPSONadmin — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:04:15 +0000

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Rene

On 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 I’ve fought to keep my leg. Right now, I’m thinking that if I had let the Army surgeons amputate my leg from the knee down, I would probably have a pretty cool prosthetic and, maybe, wouldn’t be bothered by this painful limp. Who knows? Before I moved to Albuquerque, I was one of the few who was allowed in his wing of the children’s hospital; to hold him while his mother slept. I held him four days a week for four hours, sometimes more. I know that in those moments, I was making a connection to him that couldn’t be explained. Even though he couldn’t speak, we could share our feelings. That, somehow, I was able to take some discomfort and pain away from him. Those moments are mine now. I’m grateful for the beautiful city I live in, and I’m grateful for the time my nephew gave me. I’m grateful for the example my ancestors gave me. And grateful for being able to be the Tio that he needed before he passed. I’m grateful for my leg; it’s mine, and I’ll fight for it.

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Week 2 Maximus

jasonROSEBSIMPSONadmin — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:01:05 +0000

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Maximus

When 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, to try and abandon material belief even if for just a moment.

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Week 2 Fiona

jasonROSEBSIMPSONadmin — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 16:57:57 +0000

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Fiona

I am a butterfly, half released from my chrysalis. (She is actually a moth, but butterflies are much more loved and that is all she wishes to be. Did you know that some moths can avoid being echolocated by bats because, at just the right moment, they click their organs? She thinks this is beautiful too, but it is a quiet thought.)

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. Born in the night, I almost died. I almost died. But here I am. (She thinks of death, but it is life that consumes her. Maybe when the sun rises and her wings dry, she can fly. However, now in the night, she is still healing from the ordeals of change.