{"id":2009,"date":"2020-04-23T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2020-04-23T07:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:52:45","slug":"cayla-strouds-mpp-a-black-mothers-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/major-paper-project\/cayla-strouds-mpp-a-black-mothers-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayla Stroud’s MPP, “A Black Mother’s Understanding”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A Black Mother\u2019s Understanding<\/em> (Poetry)<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For these poems I tried to emulate Rebecca Foust\u2019s \u201cA Mothers Understanding\u201d.\u00a0 I enjoyed how through her poems she let us through her journey of being a mother to a child with Asperger\u2019s syndrome. Foust\u2019s connection to her son\u2019s journey related to the relational model as it catered to the thoughts and feelings of a mother with a child that has a disability, with the focus on how it affects her personally. I thought that doing an assortment of poems catered to the feelings of a mother that had a child with quadriplegia, intellectual disabilities and confined to a wheelchair. I wanted the poems to reflect societal feelings, admiration, sadness, agony, pain, all in one. Putting a twist on the poems that Foust had done in \u201cA Mother\u2019s Understanding\u201d by pairing the experiences to that of a black mother. It was important to me that the experiences of disability were not solely based on the traditional white American\u2019s narrative of disability, but rather a rendition of disability that can be shown through the lens of intersexual, feminist, and a cultural viewpoint, essentially a black feminist disability narrative. I wanted the reader to grasp the understanding of how disability functions within different cultural expressions and the stereotypes that follow. Furthermore, how blackness is barred, in a western, ablest, patriarchal society from the weakness and visibility of disability.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

word count (discussion): 226 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

word count (with poem explanations): 1191<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pledge my honor, Cayla Stroud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For these poems I tried to emulate Rebecca Foust\u2019s \u201cA Mothers Understanding\u201d.\u00a0 I enjoyed how through her poems she let us through her journey of being a mother to a child with Asperger\u2019s syndrome. Foust\u2019s connection to her son\u2019s journey related to the relational model as it catered to the thoughts and feelings of a … Continue reading “Cayla Stroud’s MPP, “A Black Mother’s Understanding””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[191,63,190,192],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-major-paper-project","tag-black-feminist-disability","tag-major-paper-project","tag-poetry","tag-rebecca-foust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcJhts-wp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}