Culture Appropriation: Obstacles in Multiculturalism?
Gender-neutral Language: Usaha Mewujudkan Kesetaraan Gender
Gender-Neutral Language: Efforts to Create Gender Equality
Apakah Berbeda Selalu Menyimpang?
Does Being Different Always Mean Being Deviant?
LGBT dan Agama
LGBT and Religion
Memanusiakan Manusia di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19
Humanizing The Humans in the Midst of Covid-19 Pandemics
Looking back into the reading materials that I gave them, I was pretty sure that there were more than just these. However, looking back into the choices of terms that I provided, I may have put too many words related with gender issues---which could be a tantalizingly daunting task for them. However, I was relieved to find out that some of them chose issues related with religion and culture appropriation. But, that’s not the point. I am glad to finally learn that the most and widely used term in the paper is “discrimination”---which is not surprising because we have travelled across diverse countries and parts of the Indonesian archipelago to learn about history and traces of discrimination and how they impacted or are still impacting people’s lives. And, to make it like a cherry on a cake, the second most widely used term is “acceptance”. That speaks for itself as how this class has impacted my students’ way of thinking or at least has brought them to dare themselves to speak up about the issues that they may have witnessed, read, or only heard but never had a chance to put their ideas into words.
This class was supposed to be conducted fully in classes, but as of March 16--after about a month of meeting--we had to change the whole class into online via webex due to Covid-19. There goes our plans of going on a two different field-trips during the semester. We were supposed to see Jogjakarta undercover-style into the lives of ordinary people mingling within diverse cultural, religious, social backgrounds in some parts of the town---that even my students have never gone before. That being said, we spent the rest of the semester doing online classes and “imagining” ourselves going into the depth of our reading materials.
This has been a great semester despite the shortcomings of doing it online.
Jogjakarta, June 2020 (Notes during Covid-19 Semester)
