I couldn't help but do some reflecting tonight after our conversation in class today about what can be done, and if what we do will even really matter outside of our own self-gratification. The concepts of separatism, knowledge, enculturation are all ideas that I think that build upon one another. Starting with enculturation... we are raised up in our societies to believe in the values and norms that are directly around us, both on the micro and the macro levels. We experience gender reinforcement day after day, year after year in this system of enculturation. Only some of us "fall through the cracks" so to speak in terms of being exposed to the knowledge about gender constructs, gender identities, theories, ideas, ways of being... but then what do we do with that knowledge? Do we just let it sit in the back of our minds collecting dust for the rest of our lives? Do we take that knowledge, and individually apply it to our own lives, our own ways of being, and be done with it? Or do we take that knowledge, apply it to our own lives and the way we understand ourselves, and then bring that attention, introduce that 'way of knowing' to the lives of others? We have to start somewhere if we expect to change anything. Starting with ourselves is good, but communication is key.
It's sad to hear them say
let it be, things will never change-
that individually we can't do anything.
But I beg to differ.
Because I know that
one and one makes two.
And if we keep multiplying
the message, then one day
that message will come true.
Just some short hand on my own personal thoughts. "Some say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one." Yes, I just pulled that card. haha
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