I was pleasently surprised by the introduction of the class. The audio with the black man telling his story was a focal point for me. His critic of our society was well oriented and pointed the good issues. By siting on the floor and being completely lost in my mind I was feeling in connivance with his words and his feelings. I don't know if it's the way I was listening, but it was like a song to me. The way he uses sentences and his humour clearly represent some issues we have with not only black people, but race in general. I also like the way the autism was introduced with the video we saw. The translation of the movements, the sounds, the mumbles and the feeling of the kid were literally showing the complete other side of what we could maybe think of autism. Looking forward of meeting one these phenomenal human beings this week.
Olivia L.
Olivia L.
Erik Dyson and Amelia Baggs are indeed powerful thinkers. I think it's very important, though, to always speak their names. It's remarkable how few white men's names remain unspoken. And also I would suggest that over the course of the term we consider how to see ourselves as imbricated - never outside - the work we read and see. Amelia's neurodiversity may make our neurotypicality stand out, but what is more interesting is to realize that no one is neurotypical (which is not the same thing as saying that everyone is autistic). Neurotypicality is a system, a template, according to which norms are produced and sustained. What happens when we see In My Language and we really take it seriously not as *her* world but as *the* world, a world we all contribute with? What does it mean to be implicated in this process? Where can that take us?
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