This portrait shows off all the non-covid ways I feel like I've been torn apart over the course of this semester.

My piece reflects specifically how I see my relationship with the hearing, hard-of-hearing, and deaf worlds respectively. I decided to focus on this because I felt that there was too much happening this semester for me to really be able to fit it into one piece, and because this identity is something that I have been thinking a lot about and exploring since coming to college and taking this class.

Artist Statement lil thing (also in document attached)

The fire keeps burning and I am already ashes

Hey y'all! I came across this video while researching for my paper that seems pretty interesting. It's on accessibility settings in video games rather than disabled representation so I didn't think it made much sense to put on that list, but in case anyone is curious about this topic here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi98rAn4uXE

Teddy's death was just one example of how desensitized the kids at ILLC have become to their destructive environment. Beforehand, Teddy had willfully accepted being taken care of last by his caretaker. She framed it in such a way that made it seem enticing--Teddy would get to spend more time in his bed. These acts condition the kids to view themselves as afterthoughts with inherently less value. That's why he didn't treat it as a big deal when he fell over in the shower and was crawling to safety away from the hot water. His perception of self-worth was so skewed by his environment that he nonchalantly accepted being treated with dangerous neglect. The kids at ILLC don't know any better because they aren't shown a better way of life.

My self-portrait represents me before leaving for Haverford, on the left, and me at Haverford on the right. On the left, at home, I am in my bubble because I only know people from my hometown. I haven’t gone out of my comfort zone in my life—the sunglasses on the left show that i was shielded from the world. My eyes are fully open on the right as my eyes no open to more of the real world. I have a mask on because not only am I learning how to adult for the first time, I am doing it while in a pandemic. Finally, on the right, there are many things that I have to think of that I never had to at home that are represented by the thought bubbles. For example, for the first time, I flew in by myself from California and had to move in by myself; I represent this with the airplane.

https://streamable.com/uiwck4