The project - my shawl and myself If one took a quick glance at me they would be able to tick a few boxes and formulate an idea of my social location, I am cishet, white, female, I live in Silicon Valley, I am a graduate student teacher at a university, middle-aged, middle-class, I don’t seem very remarkable or unusual on the surface and can very easily and neatly be dropped in the “middle class white lady” box. And I have been dropped in this box repeatedly despite numerous intersections that make my “white lady-ness” more complicated than it appears. To further reinforce my white lady status, the creative aspect of this project is a knitted item. Seen in the following Image: I have been knitting this shawl throughout the semester during class times. I consider knitting (and crochet and spinning yarn) to be my main contemplative practices, and this object is imbued with my meditations from this semester, as well as some other symbolic design elements. This object will help me “k...