Fashioning the Body: Versions of the Citizen, the Self, and the Subject

    So I work at the crisis clinic and that entails mostly talking to people in crisis and occationally helping people find resources to help them out. This is a thought from an extention of crisis clinic called 211 that is like 911 but for resources. The way community resources work is through knowledge the way to knowledge is through power the way to power is through connections and working for "the man". So start at being a person working for "the man". Some one calls you at 211 looking for a way to get you son out of jail because they told the mother that he needed a job to be released. Well she isn't able to get anything done because she being a low income parent of an offender who is looked at as a pain to deal with or pass off to the next info resource, when she tries to advocate for her son. At 211 we have a power mask because we are official and that is our ticket into the interaction. once we have direct connection from our node to the info resource the interaction starts as fact based then judgments and values from the info resource are triggered and the interaction quickly becomes a fiction and we as advocates commence in redirecting the resources values and mirroring their judgments to get the information which is then given to the mother. The information given to the mother to begin with turned out to be misleading. Because in order to get released she had to communicate a resedience that he will be living at and than he is elegable to get the job. but the mother was shut down at every turn because of the fictions created in people of powers heads. This shows me their are equally more problems produced by play in a position as their is relief. That is why the tools given in our literature are essential. It also shows the problems that can arise in confession to the wrong people, and to be careful who you give power over you and the way in which you devoldge information.