Brainstorm Week 7 - Natalie Stagnone
Natalie Stagnone
This use of social media relates back the uses of technology and preserving cultures. The goals of the Womxn Who Rock Conference align with this idea that it is important to share the lived experiences of everyone. Each individual's experience differs based on their own intersectional identity. The videos this week relate Salgado’s life as a queer, undocumented individual. Hearing this story it becomes apparent that many people do not connect the undocumented experience to the queer experience. This is the reason why the Dreamers Adrift project was created: it can share the discrimination that undocumented individuals experience on a dialy basis. In one scenario, people in the group compared crossing the border at the desert to running a 5k. These videos create a larger conversation around identities and what it means to be undocumented. Costanza-Chock states in the article Out of the Closets, “trans-media organizing is the strategic practice of cross platform participator media-making for social movement ends” (131). It is critical that these experiences are shared and the identities of undocumented immigrants are shared, so that others may begin to understand and fight for the rights of undocumented immigrants. These individuals who do share their story may find that they are not actually experiencing “social death” because others are beginnning to become more aware of discrimination and the lives of undocumented immigrants. By using social media, undocumented individuals are able to be empowered and stregthened in their identities, which, I believe, is certainly a form of resilience.
This use of social media relates back the uses of technology and preserving cultures. The goals of the Womxn Who Rock Conference align with this idea that it is important to share the lived experiences of everyone. Each individual's experience differs based on their own intersectional identity. The videos this week relate Salgado’s life as a queer, undocumented individual. Hearing this story it becomes apparent that many people do not connect the undocumented experience to the queer experience. This is the reason why the Dreamers Adrift project was created: it can share the discrimination that undocumented individuals experience on a dialy basis. In one scenario, people in the group compared crossing the border at the desert to running a 5k. These videos create a larger conversation around identities and what it means to be undocumented. Costanza-Chock states in the article Out of the Closets, “trans-media organizing is the strategic practice of cross platform participator media-making for social movement ends” (131). It is critical that these experiences are shared and the identities of undocumented immigrants are shared, so that others may begin to understand and fight for the rights of undocumented immigrants. These individuals who do share their story may find that they are not actually experiencing “social death” because others are beginnning to become more aware of discrimination and the lives of undocumented immigrants. By using social media, undocumented individuals are able to be empowered and stregthened in their identities, which, I believe, is certainly a form of resilience.
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