Social Death

It is my pleasure to post our final blog!! The semester has come to an end, and what better way to wrap up and connect such profound topics than to read Lisa Marie Cacho book Social Death.
In the introduction of the book, Cacho states that, "race, gender, and sexuality are ways of knowing that make sense of social reality in the United States." (Cacho, 2) We come to find this to be true, especially with stereotypes, privilege, and discrimination being the bases of social death. Instead of analyzing the question, "How social reality and social death is constructed?", there should be a need to work toward diminishing these issues. How can we overcome social death?

I was unable to attend the workshop with Eli Clare, but was informed of the great lecture and important topics he discussed in relations to the class and this weeks reading on social justice. I did have the chance to attend the Last Lecture and hear Dr. Robin Boylorn give an awesome presentation in regards to diversity. In her lecture, Dr. Boylorn explained how as humans if we stopped trying to resist what we don't inherently know about a person and resist against hegemony then we can work toward achieving diversity.

As we all know, diversity is far more than just race, but is a combination of many identities and common characteristic discussed in the class thus far. It is often that we don't think about how we are different from others, but yet how they are different from us. In hopes that we have all come to better understand issues of race, gender, class, privilege, disabilities, and misconceptions I have posted a link below showing the power of embracing diversity.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5e6cwxA9M