I'm passionate about a lot of things in my life right now. For one I'm a vegetarian who would like to see a change in the meat industry in many areas including mass waste production, animal cruelty, and a change in the hormones/steroids they use in meats. Also growing up I was very involved in Amnesty International and Save Darfur, mainly concentrating on the areas of refugee law, immigrant rights, and genocide in Burma and Darfur. However I must admit after my best friend died I completely broke away from all of these things for about a year when I was adjusting. But now I'm coming out of that and I'm feeling more passionate these days wanting to make a change.
Class on November 10th left me paired up with Arielle on the topic of child abuse in group homes or something related to the matter. Another topic that I feel pretty strongly about. I never would have thought of it though for a project, so I'm excited in a way. At first we had a very clear idea on what we would do, visit a group home she's very familiar with and give a presentation. Though after class this past Monday I'm questioning it. Especially after seeing Gomez-Pena's Temple of Confessions and hearing Jennifer Walace speak.
I think I want to do more of a performance piece. Maybe centered around the cycle children and teens often get stuck in when they enter group homes. A very close friend of mine growing up went in and out of group homes with her brother. I constantly saw the effects on her as she was shuffled around into homes she didn't want to go. Her brother had more extreme reactions to it. I remember him running away all the way from Texas back to Fayetteville, NC. Of course he was thrown into juvi once he was caught, but its extremes like that, that sound off an alarm that something isn't right in the system.
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