Brainstorm Week 10

How to they take practices of resilience we’ve learned throughout the quarter and take them into the present as they prepare for the health and well-being of the future? 


For my Week 10 Brainstorm, I'm going to answer the above with my biggest take-home from the entirety of my participation in this class.

Above all, I have learned that Chicana feminism and futurism is about embracing "mestize" and being committed to a collective healing and social justice for La Raza. This take-home was repeatedly shown in the readings, altar making processes, and scheduled speakers. We were not acquainted with a one size fits all answer, but rather with a collection of issues and the myriad of ways that people respond in their unique place with their unique gifts. Humans offering what they have in pursuit of a more just world. I think this is most important because it does not teach us that we need exceptionally skillful or educated (in the ways most respected by Western civilization/savagery), but rather that we can offer whatever it is we have to the pursuit of healing and justice. In doing this we can heal and create a future full of possibilities for ourselves and others.