Sponsors

That first video I posted? Yeah that is about my grandmother. Not my mother. Not a partner. My grandmother. And she is the reason I am able to write. 

“Sponsors, as I have come to think of them, are any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way” Brandt (25). As Brandt describes in this chapter, we all have “sponsors” that encourage our literacies or our new discourses. This simple memory never had much meaning to me growing up. It wasn’t until very recently that I realized I was looking at it on the surface. Looking at it deeper, I realize that my grandmother was this sponsor that Brandt is speaking of. By seeing my grandmother writing every single day it gave me a curiosity for it. Also, by seeing her so happy and writing so often I saw a sense of peace that came with writing.