Reflections

One of the most influential parts of the course even compared to the psycho Geographic drift is the Erasure. More students chose to do the Erasure as part of their last project. Some did it for their final product. One of the most effective final products was when a student who was struggling with getting through what poetry meant to her as well as in the semester upon reflecting on the whole semester to choose what she wanted to do did a choice of part poetry therapy and part Erasure. She thought about how she struggled with poetry but she really thought about how much she struggled with math. In her presentation she confessed to the class she was taking math for the third time and was finally going to pass it. She looked at her current syllabus but then looked at a previous syllabus which was eight pages. In our discussions about Erasure as thinking of documents that have caused harm she chose to do an Erasure of that 8 page project. Another student chose to take responses from Brock Turner and created an eraser of what he should have said. Reflected my colleague sad it would be something to erase the words of our predators. Another student upon learning the revised documents of Mental Health or mental evaluation chose to do an eraser of those things she had been diagnosed of but now the diagnosis was changed.

There is another part after class where we brought in the diversity and inclusion director of projects to talk about when we were talking about cognitive psychology and writing Persona poems about the boundaries and ethics of writing such poems. She made an interesting discussion of how the oppressed knows the oppressor better than the oppressor knows themselves. So the boundary of who you can take on as persona is there based on historical and cultural racism sexism etcetera. One student wrote about being on being black on a white campus and being an outlier of an outlier.