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Turtles All the Way Down:

Counterstorytelling in Thomas King’s The Truth About Stories

I'm interested in learning about any mental health programs that existed at Bryn Mawr historically. I wonder what programs there were for students who suffered from depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders historically at BM. I also want to look into what programs exist now and if they parallel a program from a past or are completely new. I wanted to learn about when and why Thrive was created as the course focuses a lot on mental health; how to deal with stress and how to be a more positive thinker.

For my project, I would like to look into Bryn Mawr's policies regarding transgender and gender non-conforming students, and the college's history, as a historically women's college, regarding these students. I wish to explore, as well, the college's history of using pronouns when introducing oneself, such as during customs week and in classes, and would also like to see to what extent this strategy is used in other institutions of higher education. I want to delve into the use of inclusive language on this campus, as well as others, and how this change could be made at places of secondary education, such as high schools, and the extent which students would benefit from a more widespread movement of introducing themsevles with pronouns.

Since coming to Bryn Mawr I've had a few conversations pertaining to the idea of growing up in a bubble. Growing up in a bubble usually implies a safe and mostly positive upbringing, however I came to learn that this is not the only bubble you can grow up in. My bubble was sheltered from ideas of financial security, the white majority, and political correctness. When I came up to Bryn Mawr I met people who accepted everyone no matter their differences, had parents that could pay for their education, and were majorily white or from white areas. We both grew up in bubbles where we had heard about the other but never truly experienced the other's lifestyle.

When I think of contact Zones, I think of safe places. Safe places within your mind, as well as your surroundings. Through this class I have been able to read the "Arts of the Contact Zone", by Mary Louise Pratt, and at first I was not able to understand it, but later on I began to comprehend it, through class discussions. Often times i am still confused by the definition from the different ways it is used in text but, I still believe it to have to do with safe places. For my six weeks project I would like to explore the comfortability of people and their contact zones. I want to know how the things around you and your background affect the way you react and/ or need your contact zones to be.  What makes a contact zone, Your specific contact zone and why?

For my project, I think it would be interesting to further explore America's foreign policy in different countries across the world. I want to examine these various contact zones, and see how the United States responds in these. I also think it would be interesting to get a perspective from either side, i.e., the diplomatic side as well as the local side. Through this, I want to learn more about how the United States handles certain situations abroad, and discover if it truly is as the media portrays it to be.

this museum, is love. 

standing in line, i saw generations upon generations standing laughing and enjoying. i am not sure i have ever seen so mnay black people in a musuem. 

this museum, love. 

i have had a lot of racially charged events lately. i had felt a lot of emotions and nothing has ever felt so draining at fulfilling at the same time. but this museum is unique, it is inviting, for the exterior it comes off as though itll be dark behidn the beautifully crafted exterior, but there is so much natural light that pokes it head in. to hold you in enegry and to allow for fluid movements. this museum is beyond accesible, there are large and visible elevators, there aer esculators and stairs. everyone can get to everything. 

For my project, I think it would be interesting to explore what it means to attend a women's college without identifying as a woman. I would conduct interviews with trans and gender non-conforming students, and also see if the archives could offer some historical perspective. I think it could bring up a lot of really interesting issues, including the use, or failure to use, inclusive language and how it impacts one's sense of a connection to the community. I would probably also do some larger-scale research about the policies of women's colleges across the country when it comes to trans and gender non conforming students, to see how Bryn Mawr compares.

For my project, I think it would be interesting to explore what it means to attend a women's college without identifying as a woman. I would conduct interviews with trans and gender non-conforming students, and also see if the archives could offer some historical perspective. I think it could bring up a lot of really interesting issues, including the use, or failure to use, inclusive language and how it impacts one's sense of a connection to the community. I would probably also do some larger-scale research about the policies of women's colleges across the country when it comes to trans and gender non conforming students, to see how Bryn Mawr compares.