Critical Reflection Paper 2

Evangelina Madrid-Kerr

Pacific Oaks/ Summer 2017

HD 475

7/23/17
 The beauty of art in how it allows us to speak in terms we werent privilege in doing so

before because of gender, social class, sexism, and so much more bias. As many of us know we

cant just tell people who feel privilege what they are doing is wrong. So artists try to reach the

privilege through art to show the injustice of other and how unfair these injustices can really

be, but truly have no comprehension due to the fact of lack of exposure. Many people dont

know what its like to feel oppression and poverty because they dont have to. They do not

know what it is like to be a woman, how has the burden of just being that gender. There are so

many types that I wouldnt even know where to begin. First we have to start with the location,

and the cultures. Here in America there are so many hidden and unhidden bias and gender

inequalities that I dont even want to begin. One is because I am reminded on a daily bases that

I should be grateful that I was even born in America. My Family ancestors migrated from the

Philippines and constantly remind me of the suffering they had endured to provide me the

future I have today. We I explain to my Family that each generation has there own personal

story and experience, they get mad and call me disrespectful. Ive not to discussed my political

opinion with them, because they cant relate to my views.

I believe that the artist was able to demonstrate by dance the injustice that women go

through because they are thought of as lesser value. When the monkey told the Gods what

happen to the mans wife. It wasnt the wife that got justice but the husband. This left the

monkey confused which so would many others who valued women. I think that the dance

illustrated what women feel on a daily basis, but arent allowed to voices their opinion. So in a

place where women arent valued there words arent either. So words have little meaning with

out the man. In America it wasnt long ago that we women were treated the same. The
oppression we felt to be treat as property. It is important to show and educate these women

about change, but people of power will not it will be other that have experience oppression.

I believe the way the young gentleman and the lady were dancing in the street and actually

educating the individual that came to watch, was indeed very clever. It is difficult to share

information in third world country, but people love to share stories and when the story is out

people will remember this song about cleaning water. Just as Boal demonstrated in his book

The proposition, the context, and the structure. Understanding the reason people of power

would limit information about ways to clean water for drink is beyond me, it would save many

lives and prevent many children and elderly from getting sick. But the dark truth is we know

that people dont release this information because it doesnt make them money. Money is

more important than these human lives, to people of privilege.

I feel the issues of undocumented familys being torn apart, I have a lot of friend in the

community that are undocumented, but have children that are legal citizens. I have seen familys

ripe into to. I have watch my friends children come to my house in fear for their parents. These

are the issues, how undocumented individual arent allowed to received free lunch at school

anyone, or if the were homeless the sometime wouldnt get assistance in temporary housing only

their children. It is a system built to separate and destroy minority families and I believe that it is

an issues that not to many individual like to talk about.

References

Boal, A. (2006). Legislative theatre: using performance to make politics. London: Routledge.

T. (2009, November 26). Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world. Retrieved July 23,

2017, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzX36s_hcs

Reed, T. V. (2009). The art of protest: culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the

streets of Seattle. Minneapolis, Minn.: Univ. of Minnesota Press.