Upon reading Robyn Magalit Rodriguez's Epilogue: Upwards and Onwards, I felt like it was a nice conclusion to the Fight to Tower manifesto. That is to say, Rodriguez's talks for a call to action to gather more WOC from different backgrounds in university settings and set up a sort of community group that inspires and motivates WOC. The author of the article uses an example from her work here in UC Davis and how it had helped the WOC here. Rodriguez's article also mentions Thobani, an UBC scholar, who argues that activism and higher education are not separate. Rather, education is liberation or tools to be used for one's liberation of their soul.
Ping Wang's reading was, as usual, very powerful. I felt as if this poem was more positive than the others, as it contained a voice that was a hopeful, fighting spirit. Even though it was a dark period for her, she still possessed the fighting spirit we see in her today. His Holiness had helped her fight and perhaps this alludes to the spirituality one needs in their life and how higher ed tries to strip away that spirituality from us. Spirituality is not seen as a part of Higher Ed.
Source:
Spirituality. 2015, www.geek.com/tech/can-machines-achieve-spirituality-1741533/.
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