12020-12-01T18:01:04-08:00Callie McKenna6Reflection on embodiment and materialityplain2020-12-09T17:42:23-08:00(39.7392° N, 104.9903° W)This year has been unconventional and unprecedented, to say the least! The pandemic has changed almost every single facet of life for almost everyone, and as a student, this is evident in online schooling. Many of my habits have changed in regard to education and how I complete my homework. Usually, this photo would have been taken in the library as I am sitting shoulder to shoulder in one of the booths on the second floor. I am an extremely social person who will talk to anyone about anything for hours if they let me, so online school has definitely shifted the way I approach my work. In this photo, I am throwing up a peace sign as I sit in my bed working on this anthology project. My bed has replaced the booth, and the constant chatter of my friends has been traded for the solitude of my childhood bedroom. While I can no longer freely talk with my peers about this project and the complexity of feminist recovery, I have found myself joy in the comfort of my home. My embodiment in this photo relates to this project because although it is easy to find ourselves experiencing the burnout of online school, similar to the burnout we feel in the paradox of feminist recovery, we can also look at the advantages of our situations and see the bigger picture. I think that in this anthology project I have experienced a lull in motivation as a result of the daunting dimensionality of feminist recovery, but that is quickly replaced when I focus on the bigger picture of creating our own anthologies and discovering the commonalities between authors.
