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| Web Programmer Social Worker Writer Ice Cream Scooper Hedge Cutter Pizza Deliverer Etc. | Comic Books Photography Reading Movies World Music Embarasing Sister Etc. | Needle Exchange Women's Rights Gay Rights AJSJ Social Justice Economic Justice Etc. |
Below I will discuss the communities that are currently important to me in my life. We often think of communities as either something we are lacking or as something to be avoided as limiting. But I have learned (the hard way) that without communities we can never grow into our full potential. As much as we may try otherwise, as humans we are actually dependant on one another to survive- and this can be a good thing!
Living within a supportive community can empower and challenge us in ways previously unimagined to grow and take on roles in society which futher enrich out lives, deeping our connections with ourself and the world around us.
I'd love for you to write about your own experience with community in the Community Album and take a peak through it when it is available.
| Social Work School One of the most enriching and challenging communities in my life is State University at Stony Brook, where I am working to earn my masters in Social Work. I have found most teachers and students to be excellent resources, both emotionally and intellectually, to give me the base I need to enter my rapidly defunding profession. |
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The Alliance for Judiasm and Social Justice AJSJ is the kind of place I needed before I could ever know it. It is a Jewish community for progressive young adults that I co-founded 2 1/2 years ago. It has offered me an invaluable place to explore my Jewish identity without being judged, which has allowed me for the first time to redefine and claim Judaism as my own (not as just the ethnicity of my parents). |
| My Family You can learn more about my family in my Family History room, but I can't seriously discuss the topic collective identities without mentioning those who have shaped my identity more than any other: my mother, father, and sister. And let's not forget my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and the whole extended family. Oh, and all those who died before I was born. I could never thank you enough. |
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Re-evaluation Counseling Also known as co-counseling, RC can be described as many things: a way to learn skills for eliminating the effects of oppression in one's self and others; a grassroots, worldwide organization using therapy as the primary means of social change; a tool for learning how to reclaim one's complete brilliance and power in one's life; and people sitting around listening to one another. The bottom line is, I apply what I learn in RC towards making my life and my relationships in it look more the way I want, everyday. |
| St. Mark's Place How can I discuss communities without discussing the vibrant, explosive, provacative physical community I live in. I could mention New York City as a whole, but as E. B. White once wrote, NYC is actually composed of hundreds of small communities, and St. Mark's Place, the entrance to the East Village, is mine all mine! I hope I never leave this bohemian, eclectic, whirlpool of excitement! It's my own personal energizer bunny. |
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Chautauqua It might be difficult to pronounce, but Chautauqua is one of the most remarkable communities one could ever experience. It's the kind of place where people don't lock their doors and stranger is just a word for someone new to meet. I try to spend as much time each summer at this lake-side institution and soak up art, lectures, and genuine kindness to carry me through NYC's Winter. |
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