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Reflections on Restraint: A Youth Radio & Exploratorium Collaboration
12.11.13
Two cultural institutions on either side of the San Francisco Bay, Youth Radio and the Exploratorium, share a commitment to sparking curiosity, exploration, and learning. This year, we decided to do something together. Here’s a collection of media a small group of Youth Radio’s young people created out of that collaboration.
The starting point: an Exploratorium exhibit called The Changing Face of What is Normal. Featuring personal artifacts from hospitalized psychiatric patients, video testimonials from mental health providers, and a collection of objects used to restrain thought and action, the exhibit poses a series of questions:
- Does normal change over time?
- How do we identify and treat what is not normal?
- In what ways do labels of normal and not normal depend on perspective, culture, and environment?
- What is the difference between restraint and protection, when it comes to treating perceived abnormality?
More stories from the Youth Radio archives touching on issues of restraint:
- Am I A Shopaholic? Sophie Varon
- Help along the way, Sayre Quevedo
- Piece of Mind, Jahlil Jackson
- Stuck, Joshua Clayton
- Who's fat and Who's not, Bria Bryant
- Wrong track? Bianca Brooks
- Realignment, Joaquin Diaz DeLeon
- Jobstacles, Ashley Williams
- I just wish guns were harder to come by, Davina La'Shay
- California schools try out a gentler form of discipline, Robyn Gee
- What's going on now, Brandon McFarland
- Unschooled, Sam Fuller
- Ban the Box, Ashley Williams
- Lockdowns the norm for schools with frequent threats, Robyn Gee
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