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I viewed the speech and conversation with Claudia Rankine. Aside from her insightful introduction and conversation, I really enjoyed listening to her soothing voice while reading the excerpts of writing. But what stood out to me was her analysis of Black women and how their fight to success is represented in the media. As she spoke about the Ketanji Brown Jacksons demeaning and belittling process of becoming a Supreme Court justice, a specific line stood out to me. "This is who the survival is for". She was referring to the viral photo of Jacksons daughter proudly looking onto her mother. This statement resonated with me because I think as time goes on we are seeing more examples of Black womens fight being worthwhile. As a young black women, it is incredibly monumental to see myself being represent in high power positions. But I also appreciated how Rankine did not sugar coat the ugly side of Jacksons battle. Displaying Jacksons timeline of waiting, crying, and finally smiling with relief was powerful. Overall her talk has highlighted the importance of reading in between the lines. I usually see the monumental success of women on social media platforms . Oftentimes they do not go into detail about the experience of getting to the point of success. So I think the achievement does not receive its full appreciation.

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I went to the panel about the past, present, and future of Stem Research. One of the things really liked how they brought teacher from many different parts of STEM because I am interested in a couple areas and hearing about the research that each of them was very interesting. During the talk about the future, they all also really seemed to agree about the next steps that they hope to see in research which were hopefully, getting more staff to do research, getting more space to do research, and getting more students that are able to do research. Especially because demand of research is on the climb, they would love for everyone who wants to do research to do able to. They mentioned that grad schools are expecting that more of their students come with previous research experience, and not just experience that lasted for a semester, but one started in preferably sophomore year up to Senior year leading hopefully to a conference. Through this I learned that this is something necessary to start early because I hope to go to grad school, however, it does scare me how little opportunities there may be and how completive and challenging it may be to get. I think I might start exploring now which professors are doing labs and trying to find out on what topics interest me.

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I attended the Student-Athlete experience where a group of the student-athletes at Trinity were on a panel being asked about their experiences here at Trinity being an athlete. As a first year student-athlete here, I thought it was very interesting to here the different experiences of upperclassmen also participating in athletics. One of my teammates, who is a Softball Captain, was on the a part of the panel who is also a STEM major so it was good to hear about the balance between sports and academics. My favorite part was hearing the different connections all the athletes made with their peers, teammates and trainers. I learned about the different impacts playing sports had on their lives and how it shaped their experiences at Trinity.

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I enjoyed learning about how the Episcopalian church shaped the foundation of Trinity College. I appreciated the set up of this session, particularly the panelists that included 2 alumni who are also Trinity religious studies professors and Chaplain Halley. What stood out to me the most was learning about the efforts of the administration to accommodate religious diversity in the Trinity community, especially in their pioneering inclusion of Muslim students. It was very interesting to hear about how the community navigates the newfound diversity and blurry lines between religion and identity, as a large portion of the current Trinity community is either not religious or not Episcopalian. I would like to know more about the efforts that are being made to provide students with a safe space to reflect on the role of religion as a part of the Trinity student experience.

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I tuned into the talk on Framing Black Female Subjectivity. The English professors started by introducing Claudia Rankine. She used Kentanji Jackson's experience in the SC as a powerful example. She also used Corey Booker's words, "There is nothing a black woman can do to make it stop". She also touches on the photo of Jackson's daughter which was an empowering photo and a good reminder that people will always have your back even if it feels like you cannot win a battle that you are fighting.

My favorite part was hearing about Coco Gauff because I watched this match and I remember this moment very vividly. She then talked about the picture of Coco Gauff after she won the US open. She was crying and felt extreme relief when she collapsed on the floor after winning at just 19 years old. I really liked her metaphor of tennis (even though it was a real life scenario). She speaks about how Gauff needed to remind herself that the opposite of winning was loosing when she lost the first set. I also thought her points about the switch between a black and a white coach and the idea of "white savior" was very valid and important. However, at some points during the tennis part I was a little lost and was not sure how all the parts about her father's close relationship with her or her independent mindset related to her overall point. It was still interesting to hear about Gauff's mindset though as I loved watching this tennis match and cheering her on.

She also opened up the floor to a Q and A which was intriguing not only for her answers but mostly for the questions that people decided to ask.

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From Story To Book - The Creation of Story Books

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From Story To Book - The Creation of Story Books

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The theme of storytelling has been present within our Global Health Humanities class. Despite learning about the content of stories, their impact, and the value of internalizing the messages of their lessons, I failed to consider and think about the physical means of storytelling it self. Most often, storytelling is done through writing which is documented in a book. I realized this after attending the Bookmaking Workshop through the Art of Storytelling which was hosted María Verónica San Martín. During the workshop, I was able to make my own book through intention paper-folding techniques. I plan to use this book to document my own thoughts about changing life as a young adult and college student. Given the nature of my classes and extracurricular activities, I do not often engage in tactile art crafts. Thus, being able to work with a variety of artistic mediums - paper, ink, stamps - was truly exciting and different from my day-to-day activities. Following the workshop, I attended the Stress, Trauma, and Building Resilience: From Individuals to Communities lecture. Spanning a myriad of topics, the idea of storytelling as a means of working through trauma, navigating stress, and building interpersonal resilience was showcased. The relevance of storytelling is rooted in culture and the way of humanity, but simultaneously has applications is psychological treatment and self-care. All in all, I enjoyed learning about stories and the way in which I can create and share my own stories.

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I attended the speech by Claudia Rankine who is the author of Citizen and Just Us. There was one line that stood out to me and that I liked, and that was “feeling historical in the present.” There was no particular reason as to why it resonated with me, but I think it is very much applicable to all of us. Throughout the speech, Claudia brings in a lot of different instances where women of color feel powerless, feel like they have had enough, and are still living in history even though they are living in modern-day America. However, she also expresses the importance of sharing emotions and thoughts and sometimes it can be the most meaningful at big events for all to see. I learned a lot throughout her speech, and I think I would want to look at other scenarios this may occur, however, maybe not just in sports. I also attended the one-page book workshop and I feel like that perfectly corresponds, because she is talking about expressing and feeling vulnerable, and many times it can be expressed through words, just like in her own personal book.

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I attended Claudia Rankine's talk on Framing Black Female Subjectivity: Desire and Vulnerability. The talk opened up with Rankine reading aloud one of her newest pieces that focused on the racism that Ketanji Brown Jackson faced during her supreme court conformation hearings. Jackson was the perfect figure for Rankine to introduce the broader topic of the dehumanization that Black Women face. Especially when they're the first to enter positions of power, or the first to do anything, there's this unfair expectation that they have to be subject to all kinds of abuse and get through it just so that they can be put on a pedestal for future generations to look at with awe.

Claudia Rankine was also able to successfully frame complex issues regarding race and gender, and make it digestible without minimizing the impact of these social issues. Her Q-A session post-poetry reading was also a lesson in grace and how to handle questions that sometimes shouldn't be answered. One such question was when an audience member asked her to give him advise on how white people could do a better job in deprogramming their brains to be more aware of their implicit bias, to which she said "You're white, you tell me." The stunning reversal highlights how different communities can be better partners with each other by working together to understand complex issues by doing research instead of depending on others to guide them to utopian answers.

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I attended the “A Vision for the Future of Undergraduate STEM Research at Trinity” session. I found it to be a very interesting debate/ talk about research here at Trinity, I found it particularly interesting that undergrad research started here in 1877 and has been improving and evolving ever sense. I learned a lot about STEM research during this session most notably that research can help student learn how to grasp a concept further then just what will be on a test, how it teaches you how to learn how to pivot your questions rather than just quit because you failed, and that it can help teach you what you are good at not just what you are interested in. A take-away I had from this was that undergrad research is about solving smaller parts of a larger study in order to gain experience, and that you should pick a research opportunity based on your interests and not just pick one because it is open. Overall I truly enjoyed what the panel had to say and I am glad I went.

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Framing Black Female Subjectivity: Desire and Vulnerability

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Framing Black Female Subjectivity: Desire and Vulnerability

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I have never read anything by Claudia Rankine, but I loved her talk. She captured my attention and talked about complex issues without losing me in overly complex wording. I’m not sure I specifically learned anything, but I was provided new ways to think about and look at things. I wrote down some quotes from her talk, with my favorite being: “The inability to collapse may prevent us from getting up again.” I would also love to look more into society’s, as a whole, impact on individual people’s racist acts.

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I attended the event Stress, Trauma, and Building Resilience: From Individuals to Communities. The speakers included an English Professor, a Neuropsychologist and a Biology Professor. It was amazing to hear so many stories and to see how people deal with their trauma in so many different ways, some are journaling or spending time with their friends. One of the most interesting things that they told us was that they became more aware of trauma and stress when one of their family members became sick and two of the speakers said that their family members had to deal with cancer. The English Professor explained how she encourages students to write about their trauma because if we speak out we are using our language to restore ourselves.

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I attended the speculative futures seminar, where the panelists discussed the future of trinity college. There was an art teacher, an english teacher, a physics teacher and a chemistry teacher (who will be my professor next semester). I found it interesting how the all had a different perspective on the future of the college, seemingly based on each individual's discipline. The physics teacher was very well trained in quantum and believed that technology would keep improving to the point where it is hard to distinguish from reality. This made him question the existence of in person- institutions when technology gets to that point. The art teacher argues that art is something that cannot be paralleled in the digital world. There is no way to recreate the feeling of oil paint on a canvas, or the pencil dragging against paper. The chemistry teacher talked about AI and how technology will keep advancing. But he makes the point that although AI can give an answer, it cannot usually explain why or how it came to this answer. He also talked about the connection between laboratory sciences and studio arts, where there is an emphasis on the physical skills included in both and the in-person aspect of these classes is indispensable. Somebody brought up the point of how since knowledge is now so accessible, students may actually be less driven to access it. Similar to how if someone lives in a beach town their whole life they will be less excited and inclined to go to the beach. This was an interesting point to make, and questions weather the advancement in technology will also be paired with the advancement in knowledge.