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1. Please read/watch the following and write a short response (~300 words) to any of the following questions or to your own questions and ideas related to the texts.
2. You do not need to respond to other student posts, though you may choose to. 

Benji Hart, "For Trans Day of Resilience, Envisioning the End of the Systems that Killed Layleen Polanco"
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, "I Dream of Horses Eating Cops"
Watch: 

(You can look at the text of the poem Choi reads in the video, "Introduction to Quantum Theory," .)

These readings and short video explore how writers can use creativity to show how our realities could shift to become more livable. 

Hart and Espinoza, who are both transgender people, explore specific issues of systemic violence, trauma, and agency–and create or revise their way to a world that allows people to thrive and live freely. 

Choi also explores systemic violence as well as the tragedies and losses we personally endure, and uses the idea of parallel worlds to think about what else is possible. She also brings up questions to help us think about our own responsibility as humans for what we can create and destroy. 

• What techniques do you see Benji Hart (they/them) using in their essay and poem? How do they show the world as it is, and the world as they want it to be?

• In Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s (she/her) poem, she begins by listing negative or violent experiences or events, and then moves toward possibility and hope. What are some specific lines or techniques that show her progression from problems to possibilities?

• What techniques do you see being used in Franny Choi’s poem? Look at the text link to see the written poem. What are some of the difficult questions she brings up for the reader?

• How does each author speak to what is personal and specific, and also to larger, systemic issues? How do they incorporate hope and possibility? 

• Franny Choi speaks about her beliefs about why writers should consider what’s "at stake" for them in their writing. To have something at stake is to have something valuable that you don’t want to lose. Sometimes, one risks it in order to possibly gain more–and sometimes it is put at risk by forces beyond one’s control. What one has at stake might be something material (money, possessions) or immaterial (love, family connections, social status, pride, freedom to be, to act, and to express yourself without fear).
• What does it mean to you to have something at stake? Can you think of particular things that are at stake in your life? Is it important for you to include that in your writing? Why or why not?

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