At the middle of March I was given an English project that consisted on writing about two parts of my life and interviewing someone about gender politics all while being assigned to read the book Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name. Looking over the project guidelines I’m thought it would be easy and at the time didn’t see what new things I could learn about myself. Boy I was wrong and I can’t thank my English teacher enough for giving this project. I feel it has given me a different outlook on how I look at details of my life that may find as small and wouldn’t know how to go in depth if someone asked me for said details. This project in a nutshell has given me confidence, understanding of who I truly am, and has improved the way I express myself in my writing.
I have learned that when talking about myself on paper I tend to struggle with giving personal details that I may not want the intended readers to know but I realized that doesn’t matter when writing about something I really care about. I’ll explain. I have had projects for various classes that have told me to write something about myself or relate a specific thing to myself and I found myself every time not capable of relating or wanting to share any specific information. In the times when I have to write anything about myself I tend to give a cop-out response to just get the assignment done. This assignment has limited to me to what needs to be written and for whatever reason I have put effort in writing about a place and culture that best connects with me because of how limited it was. I think the limiting and how I received made me open up more because I had felt an understanding that the project was truly about me.
In my interview with my mother for gender politics I had learned that we live in a world that is very unforgiving if someone does not conform to the norm, the expected. Whether you’re male or female you have faced discrimination whether you know it or not and are and have been...