The poem that I’ve chosen is “A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde. The reason why I chose this one is because of the last sentence which is “I am woman and not white.” We have read “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” in class and it really impressed me of how Audre Lorde had made her own voice heard. When I think of the Occupy CUNY protest recently happened at Baruch and will happen again tomorrow, I suddenly realized that most of us still remain silent on most of the issues that are related to ourselves. Or maybe we could say we are afraid to speak our own voices. There are always things that preventing us from speaking out. However, I think we can break the silence through our efforts.

Therefore in my digital project, I want to focus on the Occupy CUNY protest, mainly happened at Baruch and try to express how we can make our voices heard. In order to achieve this goal, I am going to observe the protest which will happen on November 28 at Baruch and capture or maybe record the protest and hear what the protests say about their voices.

I plan to divide the video into three parts. At the first part, I am going to make the video in black and white since I want to relate it back to the black history when black people have no rights to express their own opinions. Then at the second part, I will make it in colors as our freedom of speech progresses. At the third part I will relate it to the Occupy CUNY or Occupy Wall Street protest and express the message that Audre Lorde tried to convey “Silence will not protest you!”

I will continue to update my progress.