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If you had the opportunity to change one thing about yourself what would it be? The Jubilee project remind us of the harsh influence media, bullying, and comments of the people around us have in developing some of the toxic expectations we have for our bodies. We are offered the perspective of individuals before and after this influence has reshaped our mind and beauty standards. To learn more click the link embedded in the title above or image to the left.
Stereotypes, prejudices, and discriminatory behavior are all byproducts of having heard only “one story” about a person or group of people. Although it is convenient to accept a single narrative as a universal truth to apply to a group or individual, it is so dangerous/powerful and can foster an environment of hate bred from misunderstanding. We must consider that people are composed of infinite overlapping stories that truly exhibit their behaviors and even the “one story” we’ve heard could have changed when told from person to person. One must also consider that others may have only heard “one story” about them and be open and forgiving to share their true selves. To learn more click the link embedded in the title above or image to the left.
Inspirational Movies, Videos, and Songs
Inspirational Movies, Videos, and Songs
Movies
Movies
Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Because she is a talented writer, a caring teacher urges her to apply to college. Ana secretly is excited about the possibility, but her overbearing and hypercritical mother, Carmen, insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister's sewing factory. When a crisis arises at the factory, it seems as if Ana's fate is unhappily sealed, but her indomitable will to reach beyond sweatshop life eventually leads her to burst, defiant and resplendent, through every restriction on her life.
A dedicated teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school has a class of at-risk teenagers deemed incapable of learning. Instead of giving up, she inspires her students to take an interest in their education and planning their future. She assigns reading material that relates to their lives and encourages them all to keep journals.
Songs
Songs
"Try" by Colbie Caillat
"Video" by India Arie
"Crooked Smile" by J. Cole
Iceberg Identity
Iceberg Identity
Identity can be compared to an iceberg. 1/8 of an iceberg is visible above water, while the rest is below. This is similar to our identity because some aspects are visible to others, while some can only be learned, guessed, or suspected as understandining grows. The visible parts of our identity only makes up only a small fraction of the whole.
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