- Sarah and I will be investigating: “How is wellness/health a class-inflected thing?”
We aim to investigate this within the Bowdoin student community, especially looking at students from FGLI backgrounds who may have had to navigate a new paradigm of health once arriving here. We plan to conduct short, no more than 15-minute interviews with students from groups such as Questbridge, THRIVE, or affinity groups. Another thing we may ask is for students to maintain a short food/health diary that can provide further insight into how the ways in which Bowdoin defines health/wellness by raced/classed standards may not meet the realities of those outside these identifiers.
Question to consider/ask:
- Do you take care of yourself? What does taking care of yourself look like?
- How have you confronted health differently when coming to Bowdoin? (implying a classed understanding of health/healthiness)
- How do these approaches help us understand what we define as healthy?
- How do you navigate/what are your strategies for maintaining health here?
- What practices, if any, do you keep from home?
- Do you go to the gym?
- What is your thought process regarding food when in the dining hall?
- Does the way you approach health here differ from when at home?
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