Week 9 Blog
Qiyu Yang
ASA002 A01
Professor Valverde
For this week, I read the article “Pain + Love = Growth: the labor of pinayist pedagogical praxis” written by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano. To be honest, I did not understand quite much of the contents, so I will just try to reflect on what I barely understood. First, she began it with a quoting, “this transition was not about becoming someone better, but about finally allowing herself to become who she’d always been”, it was a sentence written by Amy Rubin, I believed it was taking about who to transform pain and love to a growth. She mainly talked about something related to Pinay, I am not very sure what that means, might be a special group of people. she mentioned a story about Liza’s father being reward as being a Cantonese doctor in Singapore. However, they also experience job insecurity. She discussed about silence, and hiya, the fear of shame, for being like that, people die inside; also, fear of anger would not teach us anything. When Liza’s father found out she was writing down about their catholic religion and LGBTQ, her father was angry, but she just could not understand. So, what is pain, love, and growth, she explained it was 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 these, we grow. My question is, we people keep silent if it brings no benefit, to avoid the potential harms?
References
n.a. (2020, February 22). Keep Silent. Retrieved from https://www.bibliatodo.com/En/christian-reflections/keep-silent/
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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