Week 9 Blog
This week’s reading, “Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis”, Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano, talks about how our experiences, race, class and gender each play a role in shaping our identity. She points out 3 main points, the disenchantment of the empire, empire being colonialism and also the university. Secondly, resistant socialites and Pinayist pedagogical praxis using the experiences of 6 different pinay scholars.
Throughout our upbringing, we most certainly picked up a lot of unspoken characteristics from our family and community. Sometimes we may not even realize, why we do something a certain way. I think being quiet or keeping problems to ourselves seems to a common Asian trait. I can’t speak for everybody but it is certainly true in my family, especially evident from my Dad’s side of the family. I watched as they navigate their problems through passive aggressiveness, doing anything but confronting each other head on. I understand that this comes from respect, but in the workplace this could be a barrier. Just as Lozano described that keeping to themselves would not help getting their problems solved and allows other to walk over them. She urges people to unite and work together as they will be stronger.
Question: She wrote that as the same time they are trying to dismantle the power “seeking and setting up the conditions for decolonization in the university” they are also still forming their identity and who they are becoming as a person. And that sometimes they lose themselves in the process. How can this be avoided?
Nawaz, Butterfly and Cocoon- Life lesson series 12. 09.16. 2016.
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2019). Fight the tower: Asian American women
scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press.
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