Frog Blog (Aidan's Blog YDev 150)

 When reading Youth Work , the quote "young people have traditionally chosen to be involved with youth work, rather than participating because they are compelled to" stuck out to me. I was drawn to youth work for these very reasons; having been put off by the restraining and limited nature of the education system that teaching would have placed me in, and yet I'd never identified that this would go both ways. Youth being more receptive to youth work because of the flexibility and personalization that comes with it makes a lot of sense, and it excites me more than ever about the thing's I'll be doing in my future career.      Alongside the idea that youth work is a voluntary practice for not just youth workers but also the youth in question, another idea that stood out to me and helped to reshape a piece of my understanding of youth work is the lasting impact that the "uncool" youth worker had in an example from the text that compared a "cool" y...

 When reading This Book is Anti-Racist , I was reminded of my own identity struggles. I've never struggled with race, whether it's in terms of how it plays into my identity or how it causes me to be treated socially (something I understand that I am privileged to be able to say). But I have struggled time and time again with gender expression, and in the first pages of this book it's what was immediately brought to my mind as something I could relate the author's feelings to, and was compounded when the author began to explore these concepts themself. Overall, when reading This Book is Anti-Racist , I found a relatability that allowed me to empathize with the concepts around race explored in the book, and I was inspired by the confidence in identity the author demonstrates. This is an odd connection, but confidence in identity is always something I admire, and so it always sticks out as something big to me when I come across it. An artist that I've identified this i...