Reflection on Grace Paley, “Travelling”

In Travelling, Grace Paley recalled two times when she and her family encountered the injustices of  racial segregation and how they resisted those injustices as a stranger. In first story, Paley’s mother refused to change her and her daughter’s sits to  “where her race is supposed to be”, in the second story which took place in 1943, Paley hold the baby for an young woman of color and confronted an passenger by showing love and affection to the sleeping baby. Paley, though depicted as a stranger in the essay, found a community through the love and care for others no matter what race they are, as she showed her love can care to a stranger and her baby. Paley is also able to found an community from her family, especially her mother, who made an great impact on her attitude on dealing with racial segregation.

ARTIFACTS

Some womenswear specimens from the 1910s-1940s, collected by me, historical fashion is an obsession of mine.

A familiar place

Me wearing an overall made of a plastic bag.