Creative Advocacy I learned a lot from our guest speaker. As a poem writer she was very compelling and inspiring to me personally as an artist. Often times it can be hard to remember that many of these inspiring people started out just the same as you and I. It was refreshing to remember that you do not have to be special to advocate for change, at the end of the day you just have to try. I think that I can relate this to the Kahiau project because it shows how personalizing issues through creativity is a powerful form of advocacy. While as we have seen throughout history, powerful writing and strong imagery has been used to sway the masses through things like propaganda, the news, and even just normalizing ideals. I feel as though this is especially more relevant in out times when such creativity can be spread around the world with just the click of a button. My PoemMy poem was a made under the simple prompt to make a poem about an inanimate object and what it has seen/felt/heard. As one of my first ever poems, I decided on something simple and close to home: a rock. I wanted to incorperate science and just how long rocks have been around. Talking about their journey from "space dust" to "rubble". The world is big so things like rocks often get overlooked. But their journey and story is something much more beautiful and longer than any humanʻs story on Earth. Works cited:
Akana.H. 2021. World History Class. Kamehameha Schools.
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AuthorHello! I am a Hawaiian born and raised in Hawaii. I love art and have been obsessed with the natural world for as long as I can remember. I believe in empowering youth through education and advocating for change Archives
May 2021
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