The way that her autobiographical story illustrated some of the themes that was discussed in class was about the lack of diversity that she sees and hears about. She was angry about that because there has been so much hatred against black people and the black community; especially when she found out that Eric Garner got murdered by chocking by detectives. Later on after his death she also find out about the death of Michael Brown's death by execution and she believes that it was caused by the same reason. She felt like it was unfair because polices were murdering and killing off unarmed black people for no reason. A lot of people were protesting for justice and to stop police brutality. They started to kills off people of color and sometimes they were killed in front of their own children; in which Drew hash tagged the BLM movement for support. The reading that connects to her journey is the Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History. The quote from this reading that connects to Drew's journey is "These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country's history." (Buchanan, Bui, Patel 3rd paragraph of 1st page) This quote relates to her because in both readings they talk about how the police officers chocked and killed an unarmed black male so that's when they started the BLM movement to protest so police brutality can stop. A moment in this book that felt meaningful to me was when she said "I wanted to have a voice in the art world. Only this time, I wanted it on my own terms." (Drew 58) This quote was meaningful to me because when we do something we deserve to have our own voices heard and it should never come from anyone but you. You should be your own voice and when you want to do something you have to do what you really want to do; not what others expect you to do, want you to do or copy and try to be like other people. You should be your own person and do what you are really passionate about. In this world people are always going to criticize you so you should just follow your own path and show them that you are capable of anything. This is why this particular quote from Drew was important to me and meaningful. A quote that stuck out to me was when she says "I did not want to be like everyone else at the museum. I loved wearing glitter- covered sneakers and letting my locs bounce around as I went from meeting to meeting. I didn't want to fit in. I also didn't want the museum to be monolithic in that way." (Drew 53-54) This quote stuck out to me because what she says is the reality. We should always be ourselves and not copy or try to be and look like somebody else. If you have a special style that makes you, you then wear it. It doesn't matter if you don't look like everyone else and you don't have to fit in as long as it makes you happy and feel proud and comfortable wearing them then do it. Nobody should ever feel like they can't be who they are simply because you're not like the rest of them or because someone says so. The only person who can make the choice is you; do and wear what makes you happy and comfortable and be yourself and not somebody else. This is why this quote stuck out to me because I felt like it was very important to realize that; because it does happen often and problems like this do exist. A way that I can insert or use activism and art in my own professional aspiration is by advocating and speaking up for what I believe is important to me. I can use posters and put it around my neighborhood, I can also make a post and put it on my social media platform and make the post public, lastly, I can also protest with signs that states the issue. By doing so I am advocation and trying to make a change around the world and that seems to be activism. For example, the BLM movement it's important because many black people are getting murdered for doing nothing wrong even if they appeared to be unarmed. Police brutality has been known around the globe and people are currently fighting to end police brutality and for racism to end as well. They protest and hold on signs and march around their neighborhood; it's a part of activism because they are standing up for what they believe in and want to make a change on how white people view the people of color. The way that activism can become a meaningful part of my own professional journey is because there's going to come a time where there's going to be something that is disturbing or something that I would like to make a change in our society. By using activism we can encourage others to help us out to fight for change and stand up for what we would want to change. Doing this we can start our own movement and advocate for those who can't do it for themselves. So, activism can be a meaningful thing in my journey because you may never know when you are going to end up protesting in the streets to fight for what you believe; without it, it's just going to be a loss cause because then there's going to be no protestors and people are going to be doing whatever they want to others. It's definitely not right so we have to protest so we can make our own voices heard and other people's as well and this is how activism will make a meaningful part of my professional journey.
Work Cited:
This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew, Penguin Workshop, New York 2020
Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History | NYTimes | July 3, 2020
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