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So a week ago we had a reading of the play I co-authored at MODFEST at Vassar College and it was amazing!!!! Here's photo set one of two!!! Such a Wonderful, Beautiful, and Talented Cast!!! Just a couple weeks more of work and then we send it off to the theaters for review and consideration!!!!
Cushing House!!!
Got my house (dorm) of choice!!! Cushing House!! Whoohoo! Can't wait to meet my fellow Cushlings!!
hello, white female 2017er here. I'm relatively new to the concept of cultural appropriation, and I'm wondering about religion. I was raised in a Jewish/Buddhist houshold (my mom Jewish, my dad a practicing Buddhist and coordinator for our local meditation center). Personally, I have attended a meditation retreat for 5 years, and it has really shaped me. However, buddhism is an eastern religion, originally. Is practicing it appropriation? Is using pali/tibetan words like namaste and metta?
Hello there!
Well, I am not an authority on what is and is not cultural appropriation, but my opinion on this is as follows.
If you are doing something that you know people might take offense to, then thats a problem. If someone feels as though you are appropriating their culture, in that instance, I’d advise you to hear them out and acknowledging the privileged space in which you practice your religion/spirituality.
The thing about cultural appropriation is the lack of respect, the tendency to flatten an entire culture in the name of whiteness, of simplicity, of dress-up games, etc.
I think there’s a difference between claiming a buddhist spirituality w/o any respect for or knowledge of its origins and growing up with its values and its history and knowing that you are a white and privileged foreigner to that spirituality.
The core of it I suppose is that you can go on living your life as a conscious Buddhist and should check your privilege all day, every day.
If anything that I’ve written here is problematic, followers, please feel free to comment or shoot me a message. XX signing out.
kids, here is an example of why not to come to this campus. your hurt feeling will be mocked and not taken seriously.
remember, these are your peers. the cookie cutter white folks that sit next to you in class.
have a nice day. :)
Filming in Europe and North Africa!!!
I'm sooooo excited!! I got a grant to film a documentary about NATO veterans and our plight of PTSD and Combat Stress returning home. The doc will cover how each country acknowledged and supported, or shamed in some cases, their veterans when they returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. It is going to be a crazy journey. Over 20 countries in Europe and North Africa, plus Canada when I return back west. I am very proud to say that several Vassar Class of 2017 International students, whom I have never met, have offered their support and opened up their homes for us. I am deeply touched and honored by this.
I'm actually getting really excited about going to college in August - it's finally sinking in (even though I'm staying in my hometown).
Wait which college did you decide on?
Vassar!
The exhibition on display in the Frances Lehman-Loeb Center at Vassar when I enter in the fall will be called
"Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection"
I love everything about my life and the next four years of it.
