Rachel

Personal Ideas

My Idea	Idea Group	Category	Details	Edit
Art Is Resistance	Art Is Resistance	Belief	Percentage: 100 Idea Group: Art Is Resistance Idea Category: Belief I think of effective artists as people that can compel a community, represent the ideas of the community, translate them for others in an accessible fashion for a chosen audience. So, insofar as discourse about lefty ideas will spread those ideas and lead to their realization, the art representing them and inciting discourse is resistance against oppressive ideologies. I did art in undergrad, so feeling that it's powerful, useful is self-serving, feeds into the pleasure I derive from creating. But, I do think it's important that marginalized or oppressed groups use art to gain sympathy and understanding, even to garner pride in ones own identity. That's the power of iconography that we see in commercial art (ad campaigns). Some examples are more direct, like political cartoons, guerrilla art (like the grrilla girlz). I became aware of art as politically powerful reading comics as a kid, and then playing with sequential art and narratives in undergrad.

My Skill	Skill Group	Category	Details	Edit
Critical Thinking: Seek Truth	Critical Thinking: Seek Truth	Skill To Teach	Skill Group: Critical Thinking: Seek Truth Skill Category: Skill To Teach I learned to think critically by deconstructing my religious upbringing, mostly. I had to confront admonitions against all kinds of things (like premarital sex) and figure out what the guiding ideology was to all of those admonitions. After that, I learned about semiotic analysis in undergrad, still one of my favorite methods for deconstructing, testing, and placing ideas.

Post Type	Post Title	Updated	Replies
Blog entry	Chileno Judicial Reform and Economic Development	2008-05-28 21:30	0
Blog entry	First Night in Chile	2008-05-27 20:49	1
Blog entry	McKinney for President	2008-05-15 16:52	0
Blog entry	NLG Student	2008-05-13 18:29	0
Blog entry	Bleached for Chile	2008-05-13 18:25	0
Blog entry	Career Goals	2008-05-13 18:22	0
Usernode	Rachel	2008-05-13 18:07	0