During my tutorial with Cai we talked about the reasons behind my project, the WHY. I was asked to think about where I was coming from? Why did I want to build a community for Latin American creatives? What was in it for me?
I was also asked to think about what makes my project different and what is its uniqueness?
Cai also mentioned a few other pathways that could be interesting to think about.
- A community of Latin American women together in a problem-solving sort of workshop working on issues that Latin American women face. (it could be maybe within the creative industries)
- Another option, to help women from Latin America to get ahead.
Cai also told me not to discard my creative skills, but to integrate my writing into my project in some way. (In some kind of storytelling or writing workshops)
Finally, she said to research compassion to others but also to oneself.
This tutorial felt both like some weight was taken of my shoulders and like a bucket of cold water over my head. It made me very confused but at the same time excited, the thing was that I didn’t understand what I was excited about.
After, I talked to two of my classmates (Tia and Andrei) and they helped me unpack what I felt and thought about this tutorial. Tia did a fun self-reflective test on me where she asked a few questions that she timed. Some relevant ones were:
What makes you excited? Learning about new things, places, stories behind people / places
What makes you sad or angry? Injustice, abuse of power, animal mistreatment
What do you care about most? Justices, literature, women’s rights
She said it was interesting to watch me because when she asked what makes me sad or angry my face became very focused and I knew what I was going to write immediately but when she asked what do I care about most I became very confused and didn’t really know what to write.
All of these got me thinking if my project was really something that I cared about profoundly, if I was going at it in the wrong way, how I could make it better, and mainly, it got me thinking about what I care about most.