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: Smart phone.: Who ya gonna call (or text or tweet or snapchat)?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stuck at school with no friends: Where the homies at?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Reactionary: "You can't tell me what to do."
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Submissive: "I hope I don't have to go to Saturday school."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Alpha: "I'm one step ahead of all of you."
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Oppositional: "Whatever you are expecting of me, I will do the opposite."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Navigational Capital: "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.from: gpt
conversations.value: Carson Daly: Television Personality Carson Daly
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Heteronormative Climate: Assumptions about you and your sexuality make some actions difficult.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unemployed: You need a job.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Handy: Anyone need something fixed?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: School Cafeteria: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Tardy Sweep: 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.from: gpt
conversations.value: Elusive: "I sit in the back of class for a reason."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Aspirational Capital: "The ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future, even in the face of real and perceived barriers" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Linguistic Capital: "The intellectual and social skills attained through communication experiences in more than one language and/or style" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Familial Capital: "Those cultural knowledges nurtured among familia (kin) that carry a sense of community history, memory and cultural intuition" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Resistant Capital: "Those knowledges and skills fostered through oppositional behavior that challenges inequality" (Yosso, 2005).
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Social Capital: "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.from: gpt
conversations.value: Code switcher: You can go from speaking slang (Spanglish, African American Vernacular, etc.) to "Standard" English fluidly.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Young: Due to your age, adults tend not to take you at face value.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: SWB: "Storium While Black/Brown" - you face myriad microagressions based on your skin tone.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Wrong place at the wrong time: You have a knack at being found in places at the wrong time.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Stick it to the man: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Metro card: Slow and reliable. Except when it rains, then it's just slow.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Support Family: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Just let me get out of here: You want to graduate and go to college somewhere as far away as possible.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Library card: Dang, so much information.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: S/he will be mine: You've got love in your heart if only she/he would give you the time of day.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Gendered Climate: Assumptions about you and your gender identity make some actions difficult.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dean Bronson: Campus security at your service.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deep Roots: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Academic Probation: Maybe you got stuck in the wrong class... but your grades are running a fine line between passing and failing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Avid Reader or Writer (or both): 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.from: human
conversations.value: Food desert: 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.from: human
conversations.value: Oppositional Identity: 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.