What happens when someone in your same identity group commits an atrocious act? Depending on who you are and what they look like, the experience could be vastly different.
I love that you went ahead and included the sidecar of the imbalance of coverage when it's a woman of color who goes missing as opposed to a white woman. Your piece doesn't veer away from the whole messy tamale, and from my vantage point, its all related, its all what we better wrestle with or die trying. xo
I was at UIowa when all that went down. This was one of the final breaking points emotionally and physically. That came on top of so many other terrible things that were happening. I have vivid memories of being called by admin leadership tasking what they should be doing to protect our students after the news broke, I was barely a clinical faculty, but was the chair for the Latinx Council. I had no business being asked that question nor did I have an adequate answer. In the end, the response from the U and Iowa City was to tell us to hide. Predictably, things only got worse and worse from there. Nothing changed at least not for the better. Even so many years later, reading this set off so many emotions.
Jason thanks for sharing and sorry that was your experience (and that I hear of ones like it far too often) And if I'm reading this right what an appalling thing to ask of you. Makes me wonder how many similar questions were asked of folks in our campus communities. Again, probably far too many.
Hey Chuy, I read the start of this in my email when it came out the other day but just read the whole thing. As I was reading, I kept thinking: Yeah, but white men don't think like this. I mean when everything was coming out about Harvey and Jeffrey and Brett, there weren't other white guys feeling some kind of dreading association (though my kids, whose last. name is "Epstein" definitely wanted to change their name for a while). And of course, you get to this exact point. The fact that you do so with dear wonderful brilliant AMAL (her book!!!! yay!!!) is so good. ... Also, just gotta say. how. much I loved this very Chuy sentence: I came up with an almost ‘UNO reverse’ like approach to the prologue. ;)
Yes! Love that you were getting to the same point and we could converge on said point with Amal. And happy to hear that any sentence can be described as a 'very Chuy' one!
There are a lot more important things to say... but I just want to say that your sister is awesome, her potty mouth is EXACTLY what is needed, and I would love to see a Chuy and Sister jointly written something. And maybe you can just transcribe what she is saying - like, don't have her write it so that we don't miss any of the expletives that make the points better. I type fast, I could help out. LOL
I love that you went ahead and included the sidecar of the imbalance of coverage when it's a woman of color who goes missing as opposed to a white woman. Your piece doesn't veer away from the whole messy tamale, and from my vantage point, its all related, its all what we better wrestle with or die trying. xo
I was at UIowa when all that went down. This was one of the final breaking points emotionally and physically. That came on top of so many other terrible things that were happening. I have vivid memories of being called by admin leadership tasking what they should be doing to protect our students after the news broke, I was barely a clinical faculty, but was the chair for the Latinx Council. I had no business being asked that question nor did I have an adequate answer. In the end, the response from the U and Iowa City was to tell us to hide. Predictably, things only got worse and worse from there. Nothing changed at least not for the better. Even so many years later, reading this set off so many emotions.
Jason thanks for sharing and sorry that was your experience (and that I hear of ones like it far too often) And if I'm reading this right what an appalling thing to ask of you. Makes me wonder how many similar questions were asked of folks in our campus communities. Again, probably far too many.
Hey Chuy, I read the start of this in my email when it came out the other day but just read the whole thing. As I was reading, I kept thinking: Yeah, but white men don't think like this. I mean when everything was coming out about Harvey and Jeffrey and Brett, there weren't other white guys feeling some kind of dreading association (though my kids, whose last. name is "Epstein" definitely wanted to change their name for a while). And of course, you get to this exact point. The fact that you do so with dear wonderful brilliant AMAL (her book!!!! yay!!!) is so good. ... Also, just gotta say. how. much I loved this very Chuy sentence: I came up with an almost ‘UNO reverse’ like approach to the prologue. ;)
Yes! Love that you were getting to the same point and we could converge on said point with Amal. And happy to hear that any sentence can be described as a 'very Chuy' one!
There are a lot more important things to say... but I just want to say that your sister is awesome, her potty mouth is EXACTLY what is needed, and I would love to see a Chuy and Sister jointly written something. And maybe you can just transcribe what she is saying - like, don't have her write it so that we don't miss any of the expletives that make the points better. I type fast, I could help out. LOL