ALS Class Reflection

This class has provided me with a very valuable learning experience. As a psychology major I don’t have the opportunity to take classes in the ALS department very often. At the start of the semester when we discussed what SWAPA was I didn 't think much of it, especially because it involved performing my piece in front of the class which made me nervous. However, listening to my classmates perform their pieces each week was one of my favorite parts about the course. It was great to hear people taking the texts that we were reading and engage with them by relating them to personal things and experiences. It provided me with a better understanding overall of the topics and issues that we discussed in class. Throughout the course there were many quotes that I found compelling and exemplary of this course, its content and objectives. One of my favorite articles that we read during the course was Peggy McIntosh’s piece about white privilege. “ I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was ‘meant’ to remain …show more content…
One specific piece that I felt was very valuable was Wonder Women “Why must women stand divided? Building the walls that tear them down” (Moraga). This taught me to accept others especially other women. Instead of tearing one another down we need to embrace our shared commonality as women standing united together rather than divided. I have learned that I need to stop building walls that are only serving to insult further and add to injury. It also made me recognize the similarities amongst myself and other women. Although we are all different in our experiences, wealth, race, class, and culture we share many things such as having hopes, dreams, and ambitions. Within the gender of women, there are subgroups of discrimination and a sort of hierarchy, that we need to decolonize