Saturday, June 18, 2022
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One of my favorite parts of being an intern is reading the Education Diversity and Inclusion articles that my mentor suggests to me. Some of them are more dense and all of them are very engaging. Work can sometimes feel like a good class.
After reading the articles I get to discuss them with my mentor which allows me to debrief, ask questions, and absorb the information better. This week I read "I Could Hear You If You Would Just Calm Down": Challenging Eurocentric Classroom Norms through Passionate Discussions of Racial Oppression by Eileen O'Brien, a paper on the idea that professors need to change the way they teach EDI topics in class instead of just their class curriculum. The paper said that rage is often thought of as uncivilized and yet in these spaces anger is a normal response. Rage is one way of expressing frustration at disparities and is not uncivilized. It said that teachers should teach students to acknowledge that emotions are expected and normal in these conversations. It has a lot more to say than just this but I can’t wait to read the next paper!
As for events outside of work I thought a series of pictures would sum it up pretty well! :)
One of my favorite excursions around the city! We walked about a mile with these lamps and brought them on two metros. Here’s us just hanging with our lamps.
Pride party! This was the first Pride parade DC has had in two years. There was so much positive enery; it was one of my favorite Pride parades I’ve been to yet!
I checked out the church Biden goes to (apparently virtually); it is so gorgeous! I can see this church from my apartment window so it was cool to look around in person.
A couple posters later... (thank you to the wonderful employees who left posters for us to decorate with!)
This is all of us at the baseball game! Thank you so much to SPS for taking us! And for the pretzels and food, Brad!! It was a blast!
I went to a Tranquil Spaces art exhibit at American University to look at some awesome Czech art and saw the Ambassador of Czechia!! (p.s. They needed to take multiple special military planes just to get the art to the exhibit in the US!)
Upcoming, there is so much on the agenda for the rest of the week and this weekend! There will be a Chinatown community festival, we are going to an orchestra concert, a drag show, I’m heading to the embassy of Italy for an event, and this Monday is Juneteenth!
I hope you all have a reflective Juneteenth. Until next week,
Lucy Corthell