After listening to "Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon" with Krista Tippett and Junot Díaz on Krista's podcast "On Being", I definitely feel that my mind has opened up more in terms of where society is today, how silence can say a lot, how there are choices that we can all make in terms of how we look upon the current political climate, that it's important to acknowledge where privilege lies, how vulnerability is humane, and how multiplicity is a strength.
Three questions I have are:
1. Being a white privileged girl in today's world, and continuing to be aware of my privilege, how can I get other people in my life who have similar privileges to become more aware of them?
2. Why do people want to make multiplicity a danger when it is a strength, other than the idea of power?
3. In response to when Junot Díaz says "...how people get riled up about things and then slip back into comfort of their historical privileges and their historical aporias", my question is, how can we get people to realize, what they are actually doing by slipping back into their comfort and privilege?
Reflection
Knowing that I am a white privileged female in 2018, I think that my vision for radical hope is to be open to everyone. To continue learning about my own privileges and becoming aware of them, to help others understand and be able to recognize their privileges, to be vulnerable with myself, and learn to discover that vulnerability is humane and "the precondition to contact" (Junot Díaz) in order to form any sort of intimate relationship.
My artistic practice might help me give shape to my vision for a different future definitely through vulnerability. Whether it is through having the strength to be vulnerable on stage, in front of strangers, loved ones, myself, honestly everyone, can only do so much good for myself as an individual and hopefully give off the impression that it's okay to feel feelings. It's okay to not be okay. It's okay to be a human being and not a wall or block. Because humans aren't walls or blocks. If humans are walls or blocks, then they'd be called a wall or a block. There is a reason why we are called human beings. We are a different kind of being, and I think that a lot of the lessons that society teaches young humans are to be, think, feel a certain way, rather than to embrace, question, and communicate what it means to be a human.
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