The Struggle is Real.
Stacey Leigh-Ross Camberwell College of Arts, UK.
The third and final Inclusive Teaching & Learning Practice lecture and they didn’t pull any punches. This was a heavy session. In the morning we looked at a lot of ‘touchy’ subjects. Subjects that need to be addressed but often aren’t because they are so uncomfortable. Jaime discussed a quote about Whiteness being “unmarked and unnamed”. That really hit home. I had never thought about it like that. It’s the default measure by which everything
is rated, it feels like pretty much everything is identified in comparison to white. In my last blog, I mentioned that what I want from white people is their discomfort, not apologies or shame or anything like that. It felt really good to hear this same concept of discomfort coming up in class and realising that even before this session I was already on the right track with my thinking. As a newcomer to the ‘woke’ party, I often feel wary of saying the wrong thing and saying too much (not that you’d guess that from these blogs. Ha!) So today, I don’t know if I got my discomfort wish granted but I do know I learned something important // 103
