Skillshop: Navigating College as a First-Generation Student: Doing What Sets Your Soul on Fire (In-Person)
Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist, poet, and cultural theorist, described her life’s work as “writing with your tongues of fire” — a creative act of passion, resistance, and transformation. In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa writes that her art and scholarship are “a blood sacrifice” that transforms the soul, body, and Earth; an energy of truth-telling, survival, and reclaiming one’s voice.
This Skillshop invites first-generation college students to reflect on what sets their own soul on fire as they navigate the “borderlands” of higher education — living between cultures, languages, and identities. Through storytelling, reflection, and guided activities, students will connect their lived experiences to purpose, learn how to self-advocate within academic systems, and build a network of support that keeps their fire alive throughout their college journey.
Attending this Skillshop in person? Meet us at the Welcome Center (WC-112) on the San Marcos campus. Please click on the BLUE Going button below to register for this Skillshop.
Skillshops are FREE and open to all Palomar College students.
Skillshop: Navigating College as a First-Generation Student: Doing What Sets Your Soul on Fire (In-Person)
Gloria Anzaldúa, a Chicana feminist, poet, and cultural theorist, described her life’s work as “writing with your tongues of fire” — a creative act of passion, resistance, and transformation. In Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa writes that her art and scholarship are “a blood sacrifice” that transforms the soul, body, and Earth; an energy of truth-telling, survival, and reclaiming one’s voice.
This Skillshop invites first-generation college students to reflect on what sets their own soul on fire as they navigate the “borderlands” of higher education — living between cultures, languages, and identities. Through storytelling, reflection, and guided activities, students will connect their lived experiences to purpose, learn how to self-advocate within academic systems, and build a network of support that keeps their fire alive throughout their college journey.
Attending this Skillshop in person? Meet us at the Welcome Center (WC-112) on the San Marcos campus. Please click on the BLUE Going button to register for this Skillshop.
Skillshops are FREE and open to all Palomar College students.
