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Disorientation Guide

2024-2025
"History is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silences and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated."

— EDward said

We find ourselves at the university bound by narrative and necessity.  

Early on, we learn there is no choice but to meet expectations to access our basic needs. Those that control resources attempt to control our perception, as they withhold basic needs until their expectations are met. They control narratives.

In systems which are designed to consolidate power, we are fed the narrative that we are nothing, but that we can 'become something'. Some people are worthless, and others invaluable. 

We constantly internalize these narratives as we survive. We are appraised as we pursue education and contribute labor, and when we go home, we are appraised again as we consume media. You are only able to access your needs if you fit into the narrative. You are allowed to work, then you are allowed food. 

You perform, then you are worthy of an education.

You are deemed a law-abiding citizen, then you are free from state violence. 

Reader, if you are looking for spaces of mutual respect and solidarity; spaces of empowerment and action; if these words have weight, you are on the right track. Welcome to dis-orientation!

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