{"id":61,"date":"2022-03-24T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2022-04-12T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T03:01:55","slug":"sam-hurwitz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hurwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taking up space is radical . .\u00a0 instead of trying to push your challenges aside to fit the spaces of others, say, \u2018I am going to exist here\u2019 . . .\u00a0 Because you have the same right as everybody else to do so.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In my story, I explore my experience with belonging, and how my challenges\u2014namely having OCD and a stutter\u2014have impacted my sense of self-worth. I discuss the importance of \u201ctaking up space\u201d through acceptance of hardship as a path to find belonging.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-61 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/s-hurwitz-1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-1-300x225.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-1-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/s-hurwitz-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-4-300x225.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-4-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/s-hurwitz-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-2-e1649254358115-225x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-2-e1649254358115-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-2-e1649254358115-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-2-e1649254358115-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/s-hurwitz-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-3-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/S.-Hurwitz-3-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-61-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Sam-Hurwitzs-Story.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Sam-Hurwitzs-Story.mp3\">http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Sam-Hurwitzs-Story.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/files\/2022\/04\/Sam-Hurwitz-Full-Story-Transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full story transcript<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTaking up space is radical . .\u00a0 instead of trying to push your challenges aside to fit the spaces of others, say, \u2018I am going to exist here\u2019 . . .\u00a0 Because you have the same right as everybody else to do so.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In my story, I explore my experience with belonging, and how my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/sam-hurwitz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sam Hurwitz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}