The obstacles seem insurmountable, and the people I love and care the most had been supportive, though I am about as depressed as I’ve been and kept thinking that it is unbelievable for me to survive through. Every day is filled with mystery and answers to make all the difference in the world.Įncouraging suicide by its Deaf community is something really tough to bear with, and I am thankful for Deaf-centered counseling. I wonder all the time, if I have not read Ladd’s book, I wouldn’t be here. Majoring in Sociology was the best decision rather than advanced math and signed up for those courses that impacted my life forever Revolution and Radical Social Change, Hate Crimes and Bias, Methodology of the Oppressed, but not something like this, until the book surfaced: Understanding Deaf Culture: in Search of Deafhood by Paddy Ladd in 2010 had changed my life more than anything. Professors whom I admire the most, they teach not just as something you do, but find the purpose of living. Indeed, for many of the great writers, critical thinking is not always abstract, head-in-the-clouds, the kind of thing, but focus on how to survive in a hate-filled life. Landauer’s For Socialism, Day’s Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements, and Holloway’s Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Baird and Rosenbaum’s Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice, Lawrence’s Punishing Hate: Bias Crimes Under American Law, and many others.
The wisdom that I appreciate most from books can be found in their writings on how we should how to survive. Technology has adapted faster even before blink eyes every time is something of concern we should be aware of in the future. Cyberculture is the new norm of bullying. Wellness, healing, equity, and the paramount factor is not so easily accepted: Strength.Įverything is the opposite.
Learning how to navigate a history of bullying, slandering, character assassination, and hate dynamics in regards to a modern scarlet letter. DuBois on Abraham Lincoln: “I love him not because he was perfect, but because he was not, and yet triumphed.” Someone once said: ‘The thing that I did that I am most proud of this decade? Survive.’ the other day. From 2010-2020, this decade has been the challenging of how the stigma can be.
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