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Thursday, June 4, 2020

Brainstorm Week 10

How to they take practices of resilience we’ve learned throughout the quarter and take them into the present as they prepare for the health and well-being of the future? 


For my Week 10 Brainstorm, I'm going to answer the above with my biggest take-home from the entirety of my participation in this class.

Above all, I have learned that Chicana feminism and futurism is about embracing "mestize" and being committed to a collective healing and social justice for La Raza. This take-home was repeatedly shown in the readings, altar making processes, and scheduled speakers. We were not acquainted with a one size fits all answer, but rather with a collection of issues and the myriad of ways that people respond in their unique place with their unique gifts. Humans offering what they have in pursuit of a more just world. I think this is most important because it does not teach us that we need exceptionally skillful or educated (in the ways most respected by Western civilization/savagery), but rather that we can offer whatever it is we have to the pursuit of healing and justice. In doing this we can heal and create a future full of possibilities for ourselves and others. 

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