A few semesters ago, I was in a class about Feminist Art, in which we were supposed to be learning about how activism and art can and have intersected ("artivism"). The course focused mainly on cis, white women from the '80s instead of taking a more intersectional approach and talking about current (or even past!) artists who are people of color, trans, or anything but exclusively white and cis. And I hope it's obvious that the class didn't focus on those people because there is a lack of them--that is far from the case. Instead, I think it was because the instructor was/is a cis white woman artist. #Scripps
My suitemate and I both have emotional support dogs. The purpose of them is to make our lives easier, as we both have anxiety and depression disorders, among other health issues. However, our anxieties have been exacerbated by our dorm-mates' exaggerated complaints against our dogs' misbehaviors and Scripps Residental Life's mishandling of the situation. For example, we've been emailed several times about our dogs barking unnecessarily--which happens infrequently, maybe once every week or two. However, almost every weekend, drunk neighbors are carelessly loud when my disabilities force me to go to bed around 10 or 11pm. Why are our dogs expected to be perfect when students can be just as inconsiderate about dorm noise?
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