Figuring it out

Can I find something to do and/or study at the intersection of identity and culture? How our history informs where we’re going and how we engage with our culture informs our sense of self? 

Who are you? Who am I? Who are we? I wonder the answers to these questions through the lens of our relationships to music, art, literature, fashion, subcultures, and the communities we make. The ones we find ourselves in AND the ones we forge.

I can definitely pursue sociology to see how they spaces can serve as incubators for social movements; for change. It would be interesting to consider how these spaces can co-opt movements and serve as perpetuators of the status quo. How they can create the false sense of change. How they can appropriate the very activism they claim to portray. 

Of course, there’s a level of politics in this as well. It would also be important to consider history and see how people have learned from the past to either make changes for the future or develop strategies to quell angry voices. I also think about identity development and how we think of ourselves and of others influences how authentically we act in these spaces. How our identities influences the fabric of these spaces.

For so long, I only considered identity development for students, since I was on this path of higher education. However, I feel like that may be too limiting for what I want to pursue. The knowledge I want to add to the world. I hope to give voice to these phenomena. I'm still looking for the language myself.