Web Paper or Special Event

“Slippage in Anne Dalke essay has multiple meanings. When referring to the verbal ‘slippage’, it means the “involuntary” loosing control of words, speaking of something unconsciously.” In my essay named Slippage in contact zone, I revealed the relationship between Slippage and contact zone, which I suggested that slippage engenders the needs of contact zone while also function the contact zone. But In Ravens at Play, authors wrote about their thoughts of play, identity and the whole world as a contact zone. Profound questions are pondered: can people play? What restrained us from playing and what cause the play to be problematic? It casts doubts on my arguments and provides new alternatives.

For my project, I would like to better understand the contact zone between people of different privileges.  Many people have specific privileges, like having a sexual identity, gender identity, race or religion that is welcomed by our current american society. I want to examine the similarities between people who have differing factors for which they are discriminated.  I am taking a health psychology class and we learned that people have different health reactions to stress - studies have even shown that black people are at a higher risk for high blood pressure or heart disease.

(Edit: serendip confuses me, i think this is posted correctly now and not as an attachment?)

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.

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.

For the project of analyzing contact zones in the context of Bryn Mawrs history, I would like to focus on the college's past with LGBQIA+ members. I know that President Thomas was a lesbian, and that in itself was a progressive stance during her time, but I would like to know more of the details. Was she out during her time as president? Did she give leeway to other lesbian students? Also, who were the first students who identifies outside the standard "straight cis female" role? When did the college start accepting such students and did they go through the same struggles as the first Black students? How did the college deal with a student who decided to begin their transition during school?

The short story "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler explores the complexity of the relationship between Gan and T'Gatoi.  T'Gatoi is a Tlic, which is a powerful kind of creature who needs to implant its eggs in another living creature in order to reproduce. Gan is a Terran, which are the Tlic's favorite vessels. The relationship between their two species was influenced by decades of violence, revenge, and efforts towards peace. "Bloodchild", however, focuses less on the history of these conflicts and more on the relationship between the two individuals. Gan and T'Gatoi's lives are complexly woven together, but their relationship is heavily complicated by the power dynamics of their two species.

After reading Teju Cole’s The White-Savior Industrial Complex, I start to question the way I set up to define the slipping, in which, first of all I make judgement to a statement by two dimensions: correctness and intentionality. And there are four combinations of correct, incorrect, intentional, and unintentional: correct and intentional, correct but unintentional, incorrect but unintentional, and incorrect and intentional. I name this four: good way of expression, pure slip of tongue, slipping, and let it go. And I view June Jordan’s thinking process in Report froam the Bahamas as a slipping.

Last class, we performed skits for the class of what we interpreted as play. In one skit, there were four children who were going to play a make believe game. However, they argued on who got to be who and changed their minds about which character they wanted to be. Similarly, in another skit, there were three children who pretended to Beyoncé, Joan of Arc, and a princess. These make believe games made up most of playing for many children, including me.