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My childhood memory is just full of play.My parents thought play is pretty essential for a child in the process of her growing up, it helps me to become happy and healthy both mentally and phisically. When I was a child, I always had a bunch of friends around, most of them were at the same age of mine and we literally knew each other since the first day of our birth. Our families lived in a close community, which our daily pattern is to hang out in the afternoon together untill our parents called us back for dinner. After dinner, we usually were calling each other's name standing unde their windows to ask them out.

As a child, play could be practically anything. However, I explicitly remember how my imagination would always play a large role in my "play." Whether it be playing with polly-pockets, pretending to be mermaids, or hosting a fake car wash with miniature cars, I've always used my imagination to the fullest.

My dad likes to tell me the story of my first baby doll whenever we're talking about my childhood. He was in college taking a child development course and they were discussing how by giving girl's dolls we were forcibly shaping them into motherhood. So at my first my dad worried that he was negatively effecting my development, but he would contest that when I was first given a doll I latched onto her. That was my baby and no one could take her away from me. I liked teddy bears and stuffed animals but dolls were my favorite toys especially baby dolls. My favorite games were mommy and school where I would pretend that I was either the mom of my twenty or so dolls and stuffed animals or I was the teacher.

To define slipping, I think there are two factors that matters most: correctness and intentionality.

The first one, correctness, which is about the basic definition of slipping: whether or not it is a misspeaking. If a person says something perfectly correct, politely, with no offend to others, it’s just a successful process of expressing his or her idea, definitely not a slippage. Some subtle mistakes that do not challenge the whole idea of one’s word are not count as incorrect here.

Are slippery supposed to be forgiven, as it is a form of unconscious misacting?  As my freshmen seminar professor says in her passage, “slipping is inevitable, but often unnoticed.” (Dalke p.255) She also gives the effect about it, saying that it is “a form of ‘ecological’ thinking and acting: diverse, unruly, and fertile; conditional, uncertain and incomplete- an unending process, very much dependent on the unexpected.” (Dalke p.254) The effect she is talking about is the positive effect on the oneself, but missing other people who are also involved passively. What if someone get influenced from the slippery one made? What if the so-called “slippery” was intentional but the person who have done it consider it as a slippery?

Slipping through the Lens of Bloodchild

              Butler’s Bloodchild created a story depicting the relationship between two vastly different species, the Terrans and Tlic. After years of conflict and tensions, these two species had finally reached a method of co-existence. The Tlic allowed Terrans to live protected in preserves as long as the Terrans allowed themselves to be hosts for the Tlic’s eggs. However, despite their co-existance, tension and mistrust continued to exist between the two species. These tensions stemmed from a clash of different values, which inevitably influence the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals of both species.

Slipping is a form of “ecological thinking and acting: diverse, inevitable, unruly and fertile; conditional, uncertain and incomplete- an unending process, very much dependent on the unexpected. (254) After a deep review of Grace Pusey and Emma Kioko’s history of Bryn Mawr, I cannot deny the fact that there is a grave allowance of slippage. Slippage in the form of the inevitable ghastly issue of racism. Albeit Pusey and Mercado’s history of Bryn Mawr explores and clearly depicts the racist acts during the development of the college in the medieval ages, the racial status quo between the black and the white still remains apparent almost everywhere in the world today and persists to bar the proliferation of humans.

Eighty-five years ago, Enid Cook walked through the halls of Bryn Mawr creating a legacy with a chance at radical change. Fast forward to the present-- where exactly does Bryn Mawr stand with that notion of inclusion? Has it been affirmed or is it only an ailing hope? Through Anne Dalke’s analysis of the concept of  “slipping” and “Black at Bryn Mawr,” an initiative by BMC students to retrace black history, it has becomes apparent that the school has yet to lived up to its liberal goals.

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. While referring to the social institution and society as a whole, “slippage” means “slide into a state” that’s comfortable of majority, taking things for granted, unaware of the mistakes and injustice, and in other words, “being blind”.