Before starting my essay I had a very difficult time choosing which community to talk about since I am part of so many important ones. For the longest time i was debating whether to talk about the plus size community because if i do so I’d have to be a bit personal, and i was not sure if i actually wanted to share or talk about some of my experiences over the years within the community. I saw one video on Youtube talking about how black women are not seen a lot in romantic fluffy feel good movies, i thought about how that topic of inclusion and representation is quite similar in a certain way to problems that the plus size community have been facing for years. Now that i had my community and word, it was time for me to actually start the essay, i love to have an outline as to how i am going to write a piece, i listed the topics i wanted to mentioned and i arrange them in a way that the whole essay would flow together. I’ve only wrote one draft because of my earlier arrangement, i knew exactly what to write, the only little things i had to change was the way the sentences were formed, some grammar mistakes and other ideas that i didn’t want to add because i was afraid of oversharing about my own experiences so i decided to kept it a little shorter. I did not receive criticism on my essay in the workshop, the other students that reviewed my piece only left positive feedback and so did I on theirs. I am not sure if the word i had chosen is detectable enough because I tried not to be too direct in defining “diversity” because it is already a pretty common word. The only difference is that I tried to tell my audience what diversity means within my own community. I might change that if I receive feedback about the word not being easily identified by the reader since that was the whole point of the assignment.
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It’s been a difficult year for us, for the groups we belong to, so let’s write about it!
I’m Jackie Blain, and you can find me on our Slack workspace or via email DBlain@citytech.cuny.edu.
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