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Justin Dinkins
Hello, class my name Is Justin Dinkins I’m from South Carolina and currently live in Atlanta, Ga. I’m biracial Half Puerto Rican and African American and I’m 32 years of age and currently working on my bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in Marketing. Also, one neat fact about me is I’m a great cook and one of my go to dishes is chicken and shrimp broccoli alfredo.
Diversity means to me the state of being changeable or flexible. In my personal experience I’m diverse many people have a lot of life experiences to shape who they are and being from a family that is diverse we are open to other people point of views and living. Although being diverse has its perks it also has its downsides, being from the south you see a lot of traditional thinkers and what I mean is people without the willingness to see other people for who they are but because of their person beliefs and customs and even though the world may change given time maybe to traditional thinkers to be diverse.
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Hannah Wilson
Hi everyone!
So excited to be working with all of you this term! From the readings/videos, I can tell it’s going to be an important course for all of us involved. My name is Hannah (she/her), I’m from CT, and I’m nearly finished with my second B.A.— my first is in applied sociology with an anthropology minor from Rowan University in NJ, and this time around I’m studying what I’m truly passionate about and hope to make into my long-term career, creative writing in fiction.
To me, diversity is what makes people different, and how the implications of diverse aspects of humanity form the way the world works. I see diversity as something that affects every single person on the planet, even if they are unaware of it. It is something that definitively makes us different from one another, yes, but it is something we all have in common as well—something that ties us inextricably together within the human experience. I write speculative fiction (fantasy/sci-fi/horror) and am fascinated by all things “different”, which means that diversity plays an important role in the work that I do.
I am especially interested in the traction that BIPOC voices are getting in the speculative fiction field, specifically fantasy. I am seeing more and more representation of fantasy stories other than the generic Western-European “elves on a quest” and I am 100% here for it. Examples include Andrea Hairston’s Master of Poisons,Marlon James’ Dark Star Trilogy, Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, anything by Nghi Vo… the list goes on and on. I plan on doing my final project on this topic, it cemented in my mind as soon as I watched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk.
When it comes to my personal experience with diversity, I am working on coming to terms with my white privilege and learning how to utilize it to support those that were not born above Peggy McIntosh’s “hypothetical line of social justice”. Social justice, equal rights, educational integrity, culture, identity, power… these were not subjects that were taught to me as a child. Everything I know about diversity I have taught myself, and therefore, I am still not fully comfortable with the knowledge I have. More than anything, I am eager to learn and improve myself. I want the TED talk recommendations, book recommendations, etc. to help me build my knowledge. I want to have the hard conversations and am willing to be uncomfortable in order to do better. I have every hope that by doing this hard work, and passing on the knowledge we gain, each generation born can do better than the one before. Knowledge is power.
Hannah