In Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis by Melissa-An Nievera Lozano. The author features six Pinay scholar activists to reveal the painful formations of race, class, and gender that inhibit Pinay’s to pursue a career in academia.The author discusses the Spanish colonization and how the Philippines then became a territory of the United States. This struck me because the United States wanted to claim the Philippines for their own and dismantle their power, name and identity of the people. My question is, how did the Filipino people feel when their country was colonized? As a result, the United States is controlling every aspect of their lives even in academia. Dawn’s story was able to capture the brutal reality of being a woman of color in a higher education. She mentioned that she experienced an incredible amount of stress as she was going through graduate school. She felt like her life was go, go, go,go and perhaps undergoing surgery was an opportunity for her to slow down and take care of her mental health. Something that stood out to me and that I admired was a beautifully written quote “As Pinayism advises, “pain + love= growth,” we need to witness how digging up the truths of empire brings pain and how the “excavation of our honesties” allows us to approach such pain with love. From this, we grow.” The way that I interpreted this was the pain that the author mentions is the colonization they had to go with the United States. As for love, they want to move forward and create other imaginings for their future which they will receive growth.
References:
Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano. “Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist
Pedagogical Praxis”
History Of the Philippines. (2020, May 20). Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Philippines_(1898–1946)
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