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What do we want to manifest here?  What are the answers that we are looking for?  What am I trying to unveil?  Is that my place?

Through many of my learning experiences at Bryn Mawr I have come to understand that there are limited spaces available for people to facilitate a praxis of the self--where lived experience jives with academia--manifesting an enriching but UNCOMFORTABLE experience.  This is the space where we truly grow, but why is this place often challenged to provide validity? 

Although I believe lived experience is immeasurable, we often times do not record our thoughts in their "purest" or most "organic" state: stream of consciousness.  These thoughts are categorized within a preliminary stage because they are considered to be not suitable or polished enough for an audience.  Therefore many of these ideas become censored (good or bad?), thus possibly falsifying the actual syntax or connecting of information, places, and people that have influenced our opinions in the first place. 

For this project, I hope to eliminate many of these barriers for myself.  I want to find a way to ensure authenticity through language, but since this language isn't MINE I am not sure if that will happen... Throughout the semester we will examine different vehicles of language and communication through the lens of intersectionality, but I am not sure what I want to unfold yet.  Stay tuned...