The issues that come to my mind immediately are issues that need to be handled all across the country. I mainly think about racial injustice, LGBTQ inequality, women’s rights, and climate change. All of my concerns revolve around the overwhelming amount of people in the world that fight to keep minorities out of the picture. I step into CalArts, and it’s usually really easy for me to feel safe. It is for most people. But everytime I return home to North Carolina, I’m reminded of the ignorance, homophobia, racism, and sexism that sweep our nation (silently at times.) I’m passionate about these topics because too many people have been silenced for decades on decades. Too many people have been forced to live a life that is less than what they deserve. I have the privilege as a white man in my society and I’m seeing more and more everyday how important it is for me to speak up for people who don’t have a voice, even if I'm not immediately associated with their community. I must remind others with privilege to constantly witness and support the people without it.
I looked at all the toolkits for quite a while and the one I’m choosing to analyze is the Beautiful Trouble Tool Box. This website is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. The design immediately intrigued me to dive deeper into the subject at hand. The toolkit is broken down into five groups including tactics, principles, theories, case studies, and practitioners. I spent a long time reading the principles and tactics before moving onto the case studies and theories. The tactics are great because they give you so many ideas to start working right away. There were tactics that I never would have thought of, and after I read them, I had ideas jumping around my mind waiting to manifest. Seeing examples through the case studies really gave a clear picture on how to manifest these ideas. It allowed me to witness the success and bring more faith into my brain about how I can achieve certain tasks within activism.
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