Wed Draft Questions

1. When reading about the making of Sobreviendo, I found it interesting to read about the ways the music inspired audience members to share their stories of migration and home. Specifically when Gonzalez writes "it was obvious that the person needed to speak about what had happened to them a bit to heal. In reality there is healing in the telling(135)." I'm curious to know if anyone else was reminded of our earlier readings when looking at the methodology of emancipation and if telling stories can be a site of both healing and liberation?

2. In the readings embodied knowledge is often referenced, Im curious to know how you all might define embodied knowledge as well as how it might be accessed?

3. When reading about farmworkers and their struggles during COVID, I found myself wondering why it is that farm owners wouldn't do their best to ensure the safety of their workers, could it be that there are dehumanizing narratives in place about migrant farmworkers that effects the way they are viewed by those in positions of power?

4. I was very astounded at those using music to make political and humane statements about children being separated from their families at the border. Aside from promoting awareness what affect might music have in political struggle for human rights for migrants?