Author Archives: christinapetruzzi

Mental health seemed taboo in the all-girls, Catholic high school I attended for four years. During this time, my parents were going through a divorce, but internal family problems seemed to never subside even before then. I missed a significant amount of school from the middle until the end of my time there, not becauseContinue reading “Blog Post #7: Inventing the #StorytellingAsResistance project.”

Stephanie Tate shared her experience with Teen Vogue as a black woman at a predominantly white school, North Carolina State University. In her article, What It’s Like to Be Black at a Predominantly White School, Tate explains how she was first set on attending a historically black college or university. She expresses her lack ofContinue reading “Blog Post #6: Rhetorical Analysis of #StorytellingAsResistance”

Before reading “Critical Race Theory Counterstory as Allegory: A Rhetorical Trope to Raise Awareness About Arizona’s Ban on Ethnic Studies” by Aja Y. Martinez, I was frankly quite skeptical that an allegory could act as a tool of resistance and have any stable ground to raise awareness. An allegory is a story that teaches youContinue reading “Blog Post #5 Allegory, Counterstory, & Critical Race Theory: Aja Martinez’s Resistance of Anti-Mexican Legislation in Arizona”

Min-zhan Lu’s experience with conflict between her home and school language/ writing has shaped her into the person she is today after she was finally able to form her own voice. After reading her article “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle,” it is apparent Lu tried her best to separate her thoughts engrained inContinue reading “Blog Post #4 From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle”

With an unequal distribution of education in the first place, it’s hard for me to completely say whether or not a language is right or wrong. Some people were not given the tools or education to learn standard English and some people don’t speak standard English at home. I grew up in a predominantly whiteContinue reading “Blog Post #3 Students’ Rights to Their Own Language Response”

Zitkala-sa’s experiences depicted in her personal narrative “The School Days of an Indian Girl” subvert Pratt’s binary of Indian savagery and civilized whiteness. This narrative shares a first -hand account of the effects of the Carlisle School. These traumatizing and life-changing experiences are true testaments to the fact that this school was made to denyContinue reading “Blog Post #2 Zitkala-sa’s Perspective”

The first chapter of Paolo Friere’s book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Friere explores the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. Oppression seems to stem from the need for one party to humanize another party of individuals who aren’t deemed as qualified enough to exist in society without an authoritarian figure. In this case, theContinue reading “Pedagogy of the Oppressed Analysis”