Reflection

This project began with the end of my time on Oberlin’s campus during the spring of 2020. When I first arrived at home after the school was evacuated, I intentionally avoided social media and the overwhelming amount of coverage on the pandemic. I accepted an invitation to join Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens with hesitation, but soon found it an intriguing subject of study for our class’ project. Although I constantly learned about other students’ perspectives through the memes they shared, it was just as much an introspective process for myself. I was able to gain a fresh outlook on what a “meme” really could be, and broadened my perspective on the plurality of situations people my age are currently enduring. I will close this exhibit with a similar thought from The Latina Feminist Group in their oral history Theorizing Latinidades Through Testimonio: our Latinx Oral History class has, involuntarily, moved from our original course of study, and pursued a study that looks inwards. 

We have become “subjects of our own reflection” .

Sources: 

Acevedo, Luz del Alba. Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. Duke University Press, 2007.