Pop! Producing Our Power

This last Monday, the SFSU Ethnic Studies 210
classes gathered at the Brava theater in the
Mission and performed for the people. Even though
I am not a theater inclined person myself, or
inclined towards performance of any kind, but I
have to admit I was moved by the event. Everyone
there was so full of energy and purpose that it was
hard not to get caught up in the whirl-wind of it
all. The way that the other classes took what we
had learned all semester and taught the audience
something was really fun and funny. One group from
another class did a skit about how people should
not try to change who and what they are to fit in.
In the skit, the group showed the audience that
being Asian-American is not something to be ashamed
of, but something to be proud of. What made the skit
entertaining was that it was set in the world of
Harry Potter. What my group did was we made a news
cast about SFSU as if a full-scale strike
was taking place on campus right now. In the news
cast we interviewed students, a TA, and a teacher
about the "strike." Granted the strike that we
talked about in the news cast was fake and the
people we interviewed were peers from our class,
that did not make their answers any less truthful.
At the end of the night, I felt a sense of relief
that the madness was over and also a sense of
purpose. The purpose that I felt was not focused,
it was just a sense that I would not take any
injustice that I witnessed lying down. If I ever
see something that does not ring true or right, that
I would do everything in my power to try to change
it or at least move towards the right direction.