Powerful Agency

This has been one of the most interesting classes for me. As cliché as it may sound, it has been an empowering experience. I think one of the most important things that this class has given me is a "savviness" regarding how power operates. To be aware of power, to have the ability to recognize when power is operating, its form and its substance (where, how, and by whom it is operating) means that we are less likely to be negatively affected by its manifestations. Understanding how power operates is a huge advantage in countering it. The resources we have within us, whether its social, cultural, or economic capital, or if they are rhetorical strategies, or anything else, gives us the agency to harness our own power as a force for good. Power is agency, and agency means we have the capacity to be considerable forces in the world, whether that takes the form of agents of change or advocates for justice, or even simply the masters of our own fates.