i really enjoyed this course. i am so honored to have met all the wonderful people in it too! méxico profundo was my favorite reading that we did. Some passages that really stuck with me were when the book talked about how indigenous communities were more focused on non-accumulation and the development of individual skills..."Contrast this with our own world, headed toward a greater and more fragmented specialization each day. Witness the specialist who knows more and more about less and less. And he or she learns differently, not in school, but through living, through contact with others, and through doing the work itself." (page 29). they brought up community norms of reciprocity, of cooperation and participation."Space is conceived more in terms of continuous collective relationships than in terms of privacy" (page 29). this reminds me of the idea of "collective liberation", which i really believe in. essentially, collective liberation is "nobody's free until everybody's free" (Fannie Hamer), the idea that all our oppressions and struggles are intimately connected. i feel like this class really brought so many people together, it meant so much to me.
i've really enjoyed singing with the whole class, above all else. some of the songs have really touched me and i'm often singing "se me olvido otra vez" and "sin ti" when i'm biking around the east bay.
also how all of us, in this class together each took our weekly art projects in so many different directions and how every piece of art had super elaborate stories and it was beautiful to see and hear people opening up about their lives, hopes, futures, and pasts.
i hope everyone has a wonderful, wonderful life. and i cannot wait to go to méxico with angele this summer!
