Week 1 - Creative Practice And Critical Thinking
During this lesson, we were tasked to explore a particular social issue adn create a story about it based on an experience or fiction. I decided to focus on the issue of “social identity and how certain generations could have negative reactions to people vocalizing about their different pronouns and how they would like to be identified.
I think this issue is very current and has been a very controversial topic as many different people may either accept it and understand it or completely against supporting people who choose to go by their terms. I had an experience with a friend who had decided to go by he/him pronouns when they were a girl. They had felt it represented them better and felt comfortable being addressed as a “he” rather than a “she”. When he told his parents about this they were very dismissive and refused to accept the idea that their kid would want to be identified as anything other than she/her. They didn't understand the whole idea of it in general. It had not been something they had been familiar with and rather having an open mind and supporting their kid, they decided it was not acceptable.
I think something I could work on when writing my story is thinking about how I wanted to structure and instead of making it more critical, make it more creative. I think I did have some creative elements to my story but it was more of a real event that occurred as well as a common experience.
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