Tessa Roberge's Blog

  All of the readings have been very insightful for my educational journey that I will take when I become a teach at a school someday. However there were particular ones that really stuck out that I want to mention and talk about within this last blog post. I really appreciated and learned the most from Rodriguez, and appreciated the works of Herhir and Woke kindergarten. I am a monolingual individual and only speak English (clearly) and don't really know how the other perspective of a person in a country that they don't know the "primary" language is. Although in the US there is not a national language, English is the only one that is primary taught in schools and has a sort of stigma that has to do with the idea of Americanism and speaking the English language. This portion of the text really helped me see from a different perspective when it comes to not only language but culture and this idea that if you speak the "American" language you loose your own c...

   I loved listening to the video provided on Woke Kindergarten, Woke Read Aloud: They, she, he ABC's. This video is almost healing because of how sweet the narrator Ki is when it comes to all the children in the book. They explain the idea of gender identity, transgenderism, and self-expression very well. In the conservative media, there is this idea that in order to explain transgenderism it takes this idea of almost sexualization because of the physiological idea of anatomy. This idea is disgusting because it not only takes the idea of what a person is and makes it all about the sexualization of the person and not about what the individuals go through, experience, and the process it takes to make themselves feel free. Often times with people who are transgender have a very hard time in schools and are the ones who get bullied before they realize their identity. When they do transition they often get even more backlash trying to become the person they are. The world if full ...