Week 5 Blog
Qiyu Yang
ASA002 A01
Professor Valverde
For this week, I first read the poem “The Cost of Speaking” written by W.P. She continued talking more about what she faced last time. She got rejected from her promotion and she appealed to the committee. The school hired five lawyers to against her. Also, her precious lawyer quitted, and she had to find a new one. She listed the high costs of hiring a lawyer, despite the cost of law sue and hiring lawyers was very high, a lot of lawyers she interviewed with try to convince her to put down the case, because they all think it is hard to win, the lawyers can’t save her.
Then I read the “Precisely positioned: Asian American Women Students’ Negotiating Power in Academia” written by Shannon Deloso. It seems like she was an activist in ethnic studies. There were some voices up like “why is this Asian girl up here”, feels like men are leaders and women are just for supporting. In her Filipino culture, female should be sweet, quiet and passive, it’s pretty much the same with my culture. There was a male role model in their ethnic study give them a feeling that the man will hear but won’t listen, he would be the one who knows the best. There were beautiful things that “people who had been strangers came together to fight for their shared vision of social justice offered by ethnic studies.” She was proud that women are leaders in the 2016 hunger strike.
I am thinking how many people give up because of the cost of speaking up are so high and it makes them have to give up?
References
Bare, A. (2018, November 29). Georgia Supreme Court: Litigation Funding not Subject to Usury Laws. Retrieved from https://americanlegalnews.com/georgia-supreme-court-litigation-funding-not-subject-to-usury-laws/
Valverde, K. C. (2013). Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholar’s Resistance and Renewal in the Academy. Rutgers University Press.
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