Chapter 2:
“Better than being imperfect, the perverse logic goes, is to do nothing...but then, of course, nothing changes.”
When I was younger I really enjoyed drawing but I was not super keen on proportions. I just was super lazy to learn proportions more than I had, especially because it seemed really daunting to me. The drawings that I did have that I used proportions, in my opinion were not up to my standard and I felt like I could do better but instead of working at it and getting better I just stopped drawing completely.
“We lose a lot more often than we win, and even when we win, we have to fight again the very next day to hold on to the little we gained. It’s easy to get dispirited as an activist.”
We’ve made a lot of progressive and inclusive moves especially within the last few decades but as of recent this progress is in danger we have to fight harder than ever to not only keep those laws but also keep moving towards that inclusive end goal.
Chapter 3:
“In order for history to be useful, we need to use it—to learn from it and then put these lessons into action.”
I think this is where we’ve been failed as a whole, not only in America but everywhere really, we aren’t properly taught history if we are even taught history that is. I feel like for a lot of us history is just a subject in school, information you need to know for tests or quizzes, we don’t learn it in a way that humanizes these events. Seeing history as simply history and not as a lesson is our greatest flaw.
We sometimes get hung upon what we think activists and artists, protests and movements, are supposed to look like—this often being based on how things have looked in the past, or in other places.
I think a great example of somewhere we wouldn't necessarily think of a place of activism is the Halftime Show stage at the Superbowl.
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