Live music might be the thing I long for most in during the pandemic. It's not on my mind as daily as the desire to greet friends with hugs or leave my house for reasons other than going to work or the grocery store or doing something involving my computer. I saw this Vice article on trending of Reddit talking with disabled musicians and music fans about how concert organizers have the opportunity to make events more accessibly, especially given the covid-hiatus and the accomodations like social distancing and ventilation required now that things are opening up again.

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Here is the link to my midterm essay. Hope you enjoy it! Looking forward to hearing thoughts :)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZLMnNSdUugF67sxfK2qjGXQ6OYKVUZ-ECGeiYYkcWm8/edit?usp=sharing

Hey Guys, Here's my midterm project. 

It is not my first rodeo with Good Kings Bad Kings, but rereading it still brings back truely tragic, realisitc, and humbling exeriences.

I found the article on Rewriting the Old Disability Script intriguing. The author, Nicola Griffith explains the flow of emotional flow from childhood to adulthood that captures the readers' attention. The author has outlined her emotional transition clearly and easily to understand; thus, the reader acquires clear insight into the matter under the scope. She has explained how she first started feeling about people of her gender, how the public viewed such feelings, and how she grew the scorn of the society until she brought out a voice for queers. This article has changed my opinion about queers from scornful to appreciative as now it has helped me understand how different people interpret their feelings differently.

   I absolutely loved this movie! Everything I learned from it was very new to me, and I am disappointed that not one aspect of this movie was taught in any of my high schools. So many things were going through my head throughout the movie, but this is one of the points I wanted to share on here!

This was my second time watching Crip Camp, and I think I got even more out of it this time around. The first time, I was just overwhelmed with information. Why hadn't I learned any of this in school before? How does the movement exist now? What else did this movement accomplish that did not get featured in the film or in curricula? Questions buzzed in my brain for many weeks afterward and I convinced many more people to watch the film just so I could discuss it with someone. 

Despite all this about disability, we must keep in mind that disabled people should not be considered less capable than other humans. All the more, disabled people must be treated as equal and fair as any other average human would be treated despite their difference with other people. Treating people with disabilities in a normal way similar to normal humans helps them understand this in a better way and raises their confidence level compared to it they were sidelined. Besides loving spending money on luxuries blindly, we can consider spending just a fraction of our income in providing better services to the disabled members of society. It is also a good gesture if you consider dedicating some of your time, especially free time, to institutions that help needy people.

In reflecting after class this week, I have been thinking a lot about communication. In Mel Baggs' video, she mentioned how "it’s only when I type something In your language that you refer to me as having communication." I wondered how I have judged folks for this same notion in the past. How have I considered people who may not communicate in ways I do as lacking intelligence, or even personhood? How can we work to value all types of communication? When Mel mentioned this in the video, I immediately starting thinking about ways to fix this issue, but it has been difficult for me to imagine ways to acknowledge and understand different types of communication that differ so far from our perceived norm.