conversations.from: system
conversations.value: Countdown: It's been four years since the Arab Spring, three years since the Occupy movement made headlines in the U.S., two years since Obama was re-elected, and one year since Snowden leaked confidential NSA documents. 
  
  Now is your time to transform the world around you. You don't have superpowers and you don't shoot guns. You've got a rolodex of fed up friends, a metro card to get around town, and an intuition that things just might be ready to change.
  
  This is a story about working class citizens that live in Los Angeles in May, 2014. Labor rights, educational barriers, and a whole lot of traffic stand between you and revolution.
  
  Note: This story is an experiment in using Storium for thinking about civic identity and learning.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Who ya gonna call (or text or tweet or snapchat)?
conversations.prefix: Smart phone.:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Where the homies at?
conversations.prefix: Stuck at school with no friends:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "You can't tell me what to do."
conversations.prefix: Reactionary:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "I hope I don't have to go to Saturday school."
conversations.prefix: Submissive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "I'm one step ahead of all of you."
conversations.prefix: Alpha:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Whatever you are expecting of me, I will do the opposite."
conversations.prefix: Oppositional:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Skills of maneuvering through social institutions. Historically, this infers the ability to maneuver through institutions not created with Communities of Color in mind." (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Navigational Capital:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Television Personality Carson Daly
conversations.prefix: Carson Daly:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Assumptions about you and your sexuality make some actions difficult.
conversations.prefix: Heteronormative Climate:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You need a job.
conversations.prefix: Unemployed:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Anyone need something fixed?
conversations.prefix: Handy:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The smell of not-so-great food fills your nostrils. Bags of soiled burritos are splayed on the counter. Peers everywhere fill the over-capacity space.
conversations.prefix: School Cafeteria:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Security have been looking to bust you and your friends for too long... can you make it back to class (or elsewhere) before the bell rings or you are cornered by a detention-happy adult?
conversations.prefix: Tardy Sweep:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "I sit in the back of class for a reason."
conversations.prefix: Elusive:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "The ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, even in the face of real and perceived barriers" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Aspirational Capital:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "The intellectual and social skills attained through communication experiences in more than one language and/or style" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Linguistic Capital:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Those cultural knowledges nurtured among familia (kin) that carry a sense of community history, memory and cultural intuition" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Familial Capital:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Those knowledges and skills fostered through oppositional behavior that challenges inequality" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Resistant Capital:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "Networks of people and community resources. These peer and other social contacts can provide both instrumental and emotional support to navigate through society’s institutions" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.prefix: Social Capital:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can go from speaking slang (Spanglish, African American Vernacular, etc.) to "Standard" English fluidly.
conversations.prefix: Code switcher:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Due to your age, adults tend not to take you at face value.
conversations.prefix: Young:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: "Storium While Black/Brown" - you face myriad microagressions based on your skin tone.
conversations.prefix: SWB:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a knack at being found in places at the wrong time.
conversations.prefix: Wrong place at the wrong time:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Things aren't fair around here. You've identified one agency, individual, or location that you will make more equitable by the time you are done.
conversations.prefix: Stick it to the man:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Slow and reliable. Except when it rains, then it's just slow.
conversations.prefix: Metro card:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe it's a recently unemployed parent, a sibling that depends on you, or even family in another country that is expecting you to earn income: there are family members in your life that are counting on you.
conversations.prefix: Support Family:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You want to graduate and go to college somewhere as far away as possible.
conversations.prefix: Just let me get out of here:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dang, so much information.
conversations.prefix: Library card:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've got love in your heart if only she/he would give you the time of day.
conversations.prefix: S/he will be mine:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Assumptions about you and your gender identity make some actions difficult.
conversations.prefix: Gendered Climate:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Campus security at your service.
conversations.prefix: Dean Bronson:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have lived in your community for a long time - you know who to approach for support and how to do so. You have an interest in supporting your peers and suspect your neighbors feel the same.
conversations.prefix: Deep Roots:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe you got stuck in the wrong class... but your grades are running a fine line between passing and failing.
conversations.prefix: Academic Probation:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You read a lot. You write a lot. You may have a blog or a twitter account! You're not sure what kind of an audience you have...
conversations.prefix: Avid Reader or Writer (or both):
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There are few healthy food options nearby. You'd like to eat healthier but costs of organic groceries are tripled that of the fast food joints that litter your neighborhood.
conversations.prefix: Food desert:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You have a heightened consciousness of injustice in the world.  You don't have the patience or tolerance for people who abuse their authority or don't recognize their privilege and complicity in perpetuating stereotypes and injustice. You have a chip on your shoulder... and its called rage.
conversations.prefix: Oppositional Identity:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild: