For week 5’s readings, I will be focusing on discussing the article “The Cost of Speaking”. After reading the poem and narrative, it makes me feel desperate. Some highlight quotes that I have from the poem are: “you’re shushed, shunned, shamed, then shoved into the court where money equals power equals truth”, “everyone flees from you: colleagues, “friends,” publisher who has published six of your books, claiming “we’re your house and we’ll publish every word you write…”, “your core is shaken. You can’t eat, sleep, concentrate, care for your children…”, “you die young, depending on your strength, your will to live.” and “it eats you up from inside, starting from the heart, up to your throat, tongue, teeth, eyes, temples, brain, down to your stomach, spleen, liver, guts, kidney, back, limbs…”
After reading the poem, it makes me feel relatable. Once I took health psychology, I learned that mood could affect our health. For example, when you are always being mad, it could cause your blood vessels shrunken, and it could lead to heart diseases. I feel bad for the author that she has to go through this by herself. She got betray by all of her friends and college when she was appealing for her full professor promotion application. Nobody was there for her, and college even file law suits against her. It is unwise to lower our defenses, because we would never know who would betray us, and who would actually be there for us. Human nature is untestable. Once you test it, you will be disappointed, and never trust anyone.
Q: Speak up for our equality is important, but truth is as Asian American, we are always on a disadvantage side. Should we still protest even when there is bigger chance to lose?
References:
Warikoo, Natasha K. “Opinion: The False Narrative Driving the Harvard Affirmative Action Case.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, 2 Nov. 2018, www.pbs.org/newshour/education/opinion-the-false-narrative-driving-the-harvard-affirmative-action-case.
W.P. “The Cost of Speaking.” Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis, Rutgers University Press, 2020, pp. 161–163.
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