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Final Proj PowerPoint 1

This week has been primarily dedicated to two things: facilitating my event, and finishing writing my final paper.

My event, “Let’s Talk About Sex” at the TQC was pretty easy to facilitate and it went pretty well. Over the whole time, there was probably between ten and fifteen people who participated, either specifically for the event, who were already at the TQC, or who walked through or dropped by for part of the time. With the excitement of the week, I hadn’t been able to borrow a large screen to show my introductory video, but my makeshift purpose as a tablet holder worked well enough. The discussion wove through a bunch of different topics including the safety of sex toys, the failures of sex education, things we’d changed our minds about in terms of sexuality and a bunch of other topics started by or off of topics brought up by conversation prompts that I provided from the organization Sex Geekdom.

One participant told me they really appreciated the use of multiple types of media, and that they were really excited that the event was happening and that wished there were more events of this type around.

As for the writing of my paper, I realized early in the week that I wasn’t going to be able to thoroughly read through the resources and research that I had collected over the last few weeks in time to write a cohesive paper, so I decided to change up the style I was aiming for and instead of a formal academic research paper, I went for a more experiential based discussion of topics that I have been thinking about in depth over the last quarter and even before. I wanted it to be an introduction of topics that could have further formal research done, and a reason why it might be important that that research be done. I attempted to briefly question the way that research is done and why it must be formatted and styled in such formal ways for it to be considered valuable, though this was likely somewhat awkward and not likely living up to its intentions. Even so, I found it a really good experience for my learning and future writing to try and pay much more attention to why I was writing what I was writing and what parts of my education and the history of social struggles and interactions might be affecting my perspective or my writing. It’s not a piece that was exactly meant to be a be all end all examination, or one that would be shared without much further work and understanding, it’s an aim to stretch my writing capability and my thinking, and giving me more new things to work on.

In addition to my event and my paper, there were a few little things happening as well. I spent an afternoon hanging out at a friend’s student film, and being an extra for a couple of the shots. It was really cool to be able to help out a friend, and her film’s are always really beautiful and awesome. They’re set around Greek mythology, poetry, and love, and I think that being present for a stage of a storytelling medium, especially around a person who’s work creates more diversity and more perspectives, is really awesome.

The quarter is wrapping up and now the focus is on getting things done, which makes it harder to reflect back or create a cohesive narrative for each of these episodic reflections, as I am working to create a cohesive quarter long reflection as well.

I have really enjoyed the freedom to follow the interests I have gained over this last quarter, and the ability to choose where I am spending my time. I think it has given me a lot of good knowledge, insights, and things that I can continue to learn about.