Week 7 Blog

In my discussion post for week 7, I talked about how Tisoncik went into depth about how activism really effected her personally, beyond the movement itself. This worked up my own thoughts about my movement, and what it has done for me. Being able to speak on things with authority is always a good feeling. Being able to just confidently speak my mind on something as simple as twitter has elevated my mindset in other areas of my life as well. I love to play basketball, I always have. There are so many levels to basketball on and off the court though. Since becoming more involved in my movement and activism in general, it has been easier for me to reach out to a teammate to correct them on something. It goes both ways though. In activism, there are so many sides to every movement. When one gets hit by an argument that is hard to come back from, it freezes that someone, and they know the holes in their side of their movement. Again, this has helped me take criticism outside of my movement. Our movement is our main focus in this class, but it is so nice to know that there are benefits for us bigger than activism!