Web Paper or Special Event

I attended the AndrewLeland reading and Q&A last week! It was a really fun trip to Bryn Mawr! I read Andrew's book, "The Country of the Blind", over Winter Break and absolutely loved it! As he's losing his sight, Leland meditate on joining the blind community and the wider disabled community. I found it to be a beautifully written story about conquering one's  internal ableism and discovering the joys of living a disabled life. Highly recommend! Anyway, event started with a 10 minute reading that was followed by a conversation  Andrew Leland and Rodney Evans, another man experiencing low-vision. A filmmaker by trade, he directed "Vision Portraits", a film profiling several low-vision/blind artists.

Hi everyone,

It is rare that I feel truly connected to an entire class. Thank you for keeping our learning spaces welcoming and constructive whether we were in-person or virtual. I have attached my slides containing my books and will my videos of me reading them below. 

Rosie King Video

Haben Girma Video

Judy Heumann Video

Have a great summer and I hope you see you all next semester (fingers crossed)!

I have attached both my midterm paper discussing statistics and research in Morocco and the Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Disability. The Washington Group Short Set of Questions on Disability was used in a government-sanctioned census on disability. 

Enjoy!

So, I know that I am very late--but I wanted to do an art piece of many black women activists that i'm sure many of us hadn't learned about before. I hope you all like it! I provided small biographies of some of the women that are featured in the piece.. Thanks!

Angela Meng

Professor Jody Cohen

Unsettling Literacy

9 April 2017

What is Activism?

Resistance? Allyship? Activism?  All of the Above?

            Last week in class, while in our off-campus Praxis site groups, we discussed “activism,” specifically, whether what we’ve doing at our Praxis sites should or can be counted as “activism.” While contemplating the question, one of my classmates brought into the conversation the word “resistance,” and the difference between resistance and activism. We agreed that it can only be considered resistance when we go into prisons to lead workshops, like the ones we did with the youth in the women’s and men’s prisons in Philadelphia, and not an act of activism.

In elementary school, I attended a Spanish language immersion program, housed within a local public school in the neighborhood adjacent to mine. My parents, thinking it would be valuable for me to begin learning another language at a young age, had entered the enrollment lottery and secured me a spot. For six years, I did not walk to school like most of my neighbors, but I took a short bus ride to the next school over with a pretty sizeable group of other kids from my neighborhood attending Spanish Immersion. Spending half the day in English class and half in Spanish, we learned to read and write simultaneously in two languages. I’m sure our parents were ecstatic at this opportunity for their children to become biliterate.

Angela Meng

Unsettling Literacy

21 February 2017

The Evolution of Bryn Mawr College as a Political Institution and How the English Curriculum has Developed

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