From all the readings so far, this week's readings leave the strongest impression to me. While previous readings are mostly academic analysis. The story of Soek-Fang Sim and Wang Ping really stands out because they are true story that happen in real life. Last week' reading talks about Soek-Fang Sim being discriminated in work and how Wang Ping speaks out to fight against the discriminations in the college. I felt encouraged to see that Wang Ping is willing to speak out for Soek-Fang Sim and I was hoping that Wang Ping would win through the challenge and bring equality to the school. However, Wang Ping's poem this week shows all her fear, struggles, hardness that she had to go through in order to speak. For one to speak out, she/he puts a lot of things on risk such as work, friends, colleagues, family etc. There are a lot of psychological and health stress that one needs to afford. From the poem, I feel that the cost of speaking out is too much and too brutal.
There needs to be a way to support those people who have the courage to speak out. If everyone that speaks out ends up suffering all the hardness in life, no one will ever want to speak out again. One solution that I think about is forming unions or groups where all people having the same issue to unite together and fight together. However, from last week's lectures about institutionalized activism, this kind of group may not be am effective solution at all. So far from the study, there has been all kinds of problems relating to racism and inequality and I really hope to find some solution and answers in the future study.
Resources: W.P. "The Cost of Speaking"
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