I really like the way you are presenting the information. I like the colors, shapes and the information you posted on the slides. I can see you also watched other videos about Aaron Philip. Well done!
Alex, I agree with you with the three dimensions you identified from Aaron Philip. I think that the intersection between her gender, disabled and professional identities is what makes this transition to a new identity in which she feels more confident with. Thank you for bringing such a detailed explanation of the semiotic resources you identified in the video. Finally, I think you are right when you affirm raising awareness about learners’ own intersectionalities is one of the first steps. However, when I think of this, I find it challenging to achieve. You know, we live in a society that is still in the process of accepting others. I bring this to the discussion because some of my students have lived difficult situations because of their gender preferences (masculinities – feminities). I understand they are in their process of inventing, disinventing and why not, reinventing themselves.
I hope we can go on working hard on these terms, so we can keep unveiling the concepts of intersectionalities and performativities to build more critical intercultural identities.
Thank you so much, Hans! I agree, I have always thought that touching on these topics in the school context can be a lot more challenging tham doing it at the University level. I guess you guys at school have to be extra careful when designing materials and activities that emancipate students' thoughts.
Hello Alex and Hans, yes, relevant concern Hans. Off the top of my mind one can think of working with journals in classes or diaries that are more personal and that students can write for themselves; a space where they can start exploring their identities and positionalities, as Alex presents: process, exploration, and transit. These diaries don't have to be shared; only if they want. They could be multimodal. If they don't share them because they are not ready it doe snot matter, sometimes people need to listen to themselves first.
Dear Alex, What a beauty presentation design and clear explanation of your understandings by making the connections between the Aaron narrative and the concepts we were working on during these last few weeks. I am totally in agreement with you when saying that Aaron is a great example of many identities. I would add that she is a sample of being able to be constantly performing and redefining our identity. Besides, I think those identities are connected all the time while performing who she is, and I admire her position and the way she questions and challenges society's power issues that have been seen as normal in some contexts.
I really love to see your passion and excitement when answering question number three. How do semiotic resources contribute to this performative construction? In fact, you seem obsessed with those semiotic resources, which in my case, I found difficult to identify with the detail you could. I guess I'm one of the marginalized who can't talk about those well-known brands and stuff. Thank you very much for that very specific explanation. I could learn from you and Aaron's style. You could transfer and interconnect your knowledge dimension of those resources to me.
Thank you so much, Cata! Yes, I enjoyed a lot the analysis of some semiotic resources. guess the interesting stuff about multimodal communication and the reading of different semiotic resources is that we get to make an analysis based on our previous knowledge. In that sense, I could have never done the same reading you did, of the same reading Hans did, regardles of how much familiar I was with some fashion concepts. In that sense, every analysis is especial because it is unique!
Hello dear Alex, I really enjoyed watching your video and learned a lot more in your presentation. I like the way you put Aaron’s being in the world and identity performativity in terms of transit and transgression. Using your metaphors and your own words, I picture that performativity as if in any new step she triggers new new “beings” and, then, new intersectionalities in which the past (her own narratives) re-intersect with the present in order to get reinvented: To borrow your words, it is like a fractal. This relates with Butler’s reference to gender as “doing” or the way I understand it, from the point of view of performativity, as producing “gender acts” (from speech acts)… Even, could we also talk about “gender(ed) events” (from speech events) too? Thank you too for answering my question. You synthesize very well what the “Emancipated intercultural subject” stands for. It helps me to construct my sense of critical intercultural awareness: Definitely, what I have not found in other approaches (at least not that specifically) is the need to identify realities of oppression and cultural domination and take actions from our own positionalities. That should also be part of any model attempting to promote ICC: Besides raising awareness on othering, cultural ideologies and cultural domination, promoting enactment and agency for change! P.S: As Cata, I got amazed with your presentation on semiotic resources and your knowledge about Fashion!!!! What should I wear for my ASOCOPI intervention?
Dear Alexander,
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I really like the way you are presenting the information. I like the colors, shapes and the information you posted on the slides. I can see you also watched other videos about Aaron Philip. Well done!
Alex, I agree with you with the three dimensions you identified from Aaron Philip. I think that the intersection between her gender, disabled and professional identities is what makes this transition to a new identity in which she feels more confident with. Thank you for bringing such a detailed explanation of the semiotic resources you identified in the video. Finally, I think you are right when you affirm raising awareness about learners’ own intersectionalities is one of the first steps. However, when I think of this, I find it challenging to achieve. You know, we live in a society that is still in the process of accepting others. I bring this to the discussion because some of my students have lived difficult situations because of their gender preferences (masculinities – feminities). I understand they are in their process of inventing, disinventing and why not, reinventing themselves.
I hope we can go on working hard on these terms, so we can keep unveiling the concepts of intersectionalities and performativities to build more critical intercultural identities.
Regards,
Hans Oviedo
Thank you so much, Hans! I agree, I have always thought that touching on these topics in the school context can be a lot more challenging tham doing it at the University level. I guess you guys at school have to be extra careful when designing materials and activities that emancipate students' thoughts.
EliminarHello Alex and Hans, yes, relevant concern Hans. Off the top of my mind one can think of working with journals in classes or diaries that are more personal and that students can write for themselves; a space where they can start exploring their identities and positionalities, as Alex presents: process, exploration, and transit. These diaries don't have to be shared; only if they want. They could be multimodal. If they don't share them because they are not ready it doe snot matter, sometimes people need to listen to themselves first.
EliminarDear professor, very interesting idea. I think this can also work at the school level
EliminarDear Alex,
ResponderEliminarWhat a beauty presentation design and clear explanation of your understandings by making the connections between the Aaron narrative and the concepts we were working on during these last few weeks. I am totally in agreement with you when saying that Aaron is a great example of many identities. I would add that she is a sample of being able to be constantly performing and redefining our identity. Besides, I think those identities are connected all the time while performing who she is, and I admire her position and the way she questions and challenges society's power issues that have been seen as normal in some contexts.
I really love to see your passion and excitement when answering question number three. How do semiotic resources contribute to this performative construction? In fact, you seem obsessed with those semiotic resources, which in my case, I found difficult to identify with the detail you could. I guess I'm one of the marginalized who can't talk about those well-known brands and stuff. Thank you very much for that very specific explanation. I could learn from you and Aaron's style. You could transfer and interconnect your knowledge dimension of those resources to me.
Regards,
Cata.
Thank you so much, Cata! Yes, I enjoyed a lot the analysis of some semiotic resources. guess the interesting stuff about multimodal communication and the reading of different semiotic resources is that we get to make an analysis based on our previous knowledge. In that sense, I could have never done the same reading you did, of the same reading Hans did, regardles of how much familiar I was with some fashion concepts. In that sense, every analysis is especial because it is unique!
EliminarHello dear Alex,
ResponderEliminarI really enjoyed watching your video and learned a lot more in your presentation. I like the way you put Aaron’s being in the world and identity performativity in terms of transit and transgression. Using your metaphors and your own words, I picture that performativity as if in any new step she triggers new new “beings” and, then, new intersectionalities in which the past (her own narratives) re-intersect with the present in order to get reinvented: To borrow your words, it is like a fractal. This relates with Butler’s reference to gender as “doing” or the way I understand it, from the point of view of performativity, as producing “gender acts” (from speech acts)… Even, could we also talk about “gender(ed) events” (from speech events) too?
Thank you too for answering my question. You synthesize very well what the “Emancipated intercultural subject” stands for. It helps me to construct my sense of critical intercultural awareness: Definitely, what I have not found in other approaches (at least not that specifically) is the need to identify realities of oppression and cultural domination and take actions from our own positionalities. That should also be part of any model attempting to promote ICC: Besides raising awareness on othering, cultural ideologies and cultural domination, promoting enactment and agency for change!
P.S: As Cata, I got amazed with your presentation on semiotic resources and your knowledge about Fashion!!!! What should I wear for my ASOCOPI intervention?
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