Humanities without Borders by Tyreece Williams https://padlet.com/tyreecewilliams/qo2181chsvlw9v1 Enter responses to the refelction questions en-us 2021-11-02 20:32:30 UTC 2021-11-03 19:15:18 UTC hello@padlet.com What is one issue having a deep impact on your state/region? https://padlet.com/tyreecewilliams/qo2181chsvlw9v1/wish/1865636701 - Ohio: Critical Race Theory K-12 
- Oregon: Environmental Justice, disproportionally affected specific groups, causing division amongst groups.  
- Mississippi River Delta: Health and well-being, particularly women and minorities. [Some agencies looking at merging academic journal with public efforts to address the issues]
- San Diego, Oregon, DC, & elsewhere: Housing affordability is a significant issue]]> 2021-11-03 19:05:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tyreecewilliams/qo2181chsvlw9v1/wish/1865636701 How can the humanities address these significant issues related to social change/ what has your organization done to address it? https://padlet.com/tyreecewilliams/qo2181chsvlw9v1/wish/1865648523 - You can’t fix human issues without the humanities. They are the expression of our culture and experiences, so, you need to reflect on them in relation to social challenges and social change.
- How do we go beyond saying we're changing things without simply saying we're making changes.
- Facilitating conversations across difference; challenges around "liberal bias" in relation to voting rights
- Storytelling is essential to establishing empathy and building bridges of understanding. The work that Humans of New York does is a great example.
- Centering the people who are harmed in the work; considering the demographics and location of people who are impacted 
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Tyreece:  what is an issue that has had an impact in your state, is it impacting some places more than others, and is it creating divisions.  What issues do the humanities have the potential to help solve or impact positively?
 
What is one issue having a deep impact or your state? This issue can be social, political, economic, environmental, etc. – or all the above.
 
MW, HNY:  all of the above, NYS suffers from a plague of mass incarceration, which disproportionately affects POC and the poor.  And it’s an issue HNY will address in the current and coming years.
 
Griffin, AZ:  the police force in AZ is the deadliest in the nation.  Police killings.  But being close to the border we also have a lot of incidents with our border patrol. Not the one on the horse whipping people, but our share of problems these two decades I’ve been alive.
 
Matt, IL:  rural-urban dynamics and tensions are significant.  Some are related to energy issues including coal, the decline of the industry as well.
 
Third question (skipping 2nd):  can the humanities address and impact these issues, building solutions?
 
Judy, VT:  I’m so curious, for us to reflect on how are the humanities practiced by people beyond the old definitions of what they are.  How can we connect with the humanities that are in action in peoples’ lives and build from there?  We are really looking at that now.  What’s there already?
 
Maria:  give people a voice and a chance and experience to validate what they have lived, and a means of exchanging that experience.
 
Michael Washburn:  second Maria, a growing dread and anxiety throughout Covid; at HNY we have doubled down on giving people the platform to talk things through, creating those platforms—re-humanize the opposition!  The alternative is social media and its radicalizing death spiral.
 
Pearly Wong:  (an inmate?) writing program so they can talk about their trauma, pasts, and experiences that they would never get out there otherwise—they can see their commonalities across all kinds of differences.
 
Judy:  we are also seeking out where people get together, already, and we are thinking about general stores (in our rural state).  What can we do in those spaces?  Though we have a liberal self image, it’s a difficult state for POC to live in, for Abenaki to live in, so we need ways to get to the complexity that can get covered over in this self-understanding as “liberal.”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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