Activism

For my activism project I made a pamphlet and a power point. A faculty member put a few copies of my pamphlet in the Oaks building. On December 7, 2011 at 9:00am I held a presentation in Founders rm 121. My goal was if at least 10 people show up for my presentation I will be happy and that will satisfy me. Well, exactly 10 people showed up. Within those 10 people were some very important people. The president of SCC came and the director of REACH. My presentation was about life after rape. It is possible to have a "normal life" after rape. I used my story as an example in my power point. I got up in front of these people and talked about my power point and told them my story. I was able to make my voice heard to some strangers about my story of life after rape. Now this is an amazing feeling. Knowing that this presentation was that important that the president of SCC and the director of REACH took time out of their schedule to come listen to me. I am very pleased on the outcome of it. Very positive comments. I really enjoyed doing my activism project. Thanks to Tishina for coming and supporting me. It really meant a lot. Thanks to the class and Julie for helping me tell my story and become a survivor. I can honestly say, I AM A SURVIVOR. Not a victim anymore. Thanks everyone!

Defining your Beauty Your Way

This is a tattoo that appeared on L.A. Ink. The tattoo stands for the meaning of what beauty stands for. Frankenstein was an outcast, not very good looking, and so was his bride. In the picture you can see that the bride of Frankenstein was used to create a tattoo that represented a different kind of beauty. She is defined as a beauty queen, even though she does not look like the average woman. I love this tattoo and all it represents, it makes you rethink what the definition of beauty truly is.
For me, beauty is defined by being happy, and healthy. I am happy with my looks, and maybe there are some things I would like to change about my appearance, but for now I can live with that. Wearing glasses, not being a size two, having braces but a big smile to go with it is just a part of being human. Having your own definition of what beauty is too you, and about about yourself helps you understand that their is not just one definition of beauty.

Dating abuse

Love is respect
I was watching the show teen mom, as I watched I was surprised to see a couple who was dating and the relationship contained abuse physical and emotional. Every time the two of them would fight, the GIRL would hit, kick, smack the GUY. This is not often heard of when talking about teen abuse. It is portrayed in movies, books, and TV that the guy in the relationship is the abuser, but for this couple the abuse was mainly on the man in the relationship. The man did not fight back but he did call the authorities.
Abuse can happen both ways, it is just say more in men then in woman, well that's what most people think. When you add kids to the mix it can complicate things. I have witnessed dating abuse, and I thought it was only a one way rode, but this new TV show called teen mom made me see it can happen both ways.
If abuse occurs, either by a woman or man, it needs to stop. The link above is a site to define abuse and how to reach out for help. It helped me, I hope it will help other girls like me. I also hope it helps guys as well, abuse is not just a one way rode.

Activism project (REACH)

The activism project was really fun. I worked with julie on this and we had a great turn out in our setup. We did a bake sale kind of thing were people could come and donate money to REACH the baked goodds were free and many people donated! We had a great start and in the middle it slowed way down but by the end everything was gone and we had a nice donation to give to REACH! I enjoyed this project and i really like what REACH does for people everywhere. They give them a place to stay when thay have no where else to go and they help you out when no one else will, it is incredible!

The end

The class is coming to an end and i am sad about that. i have really enjoyed it! Learning different things about everyone and coming together as a class. when i first came to this class i had no idea what to expect. I thought we were just going to larn about the history of women or something because i have never heard of this class. But as i think about it now it has become one of my favorites. To be able to learn about the lives of women and the things that they had to go through just for us to have the rights that we have now is unbelieveable. I think that every woman should consider taking a class like this to really unerstand some things!

Art

In class we looked over the different types of art and how the society use to see the world. I really enjoyed looking at these pieces because they were so detailed and they showed things as being real instead of these fake people that we create. or like the body images were different they just didn't stick to everything being skinny the characters in the paintings had flaws and i really loved that!

Activism Project

For our activism project me and Nicia decided that we would do ours about beauty. when we did our research we found out some very interesting information. Some women will spend $500 to $600 a year on their makeup. To me that is way to much a year on makeup. But some women will go over that amount too.
When we look in magazines, movies, TV, all we see is these beautiful women who are the size of my thigh. But in real life even they don't look like that and they know they what goes on when they are editing. These women are being degrated to nothing. If they have a little bit of fat on them its the nastiest thing ever and guys like their women looking like these big boobed, blond hair, and blue eyes. If they are lucky enough to find a girl like that then they most have barbie.
Barbie is another example that is causing a contraversy in the fashion world. Young girls play with barbies and when they see how she looks they all wanna look the same as barbie. When I think of beauty I think of all the indian women who are in my life. What does beauty mean to you. In the dictionary beauty is the combination of all the qualities of a person or thing that delight the senses and please the mind.
We made pamphlets to lay around in each building explaining what beauty truly is. Giving info on what people really think. In a questioner that we did, we asked females and males to give us their opinion on how girls should dress, and what do they think of those girls who don't dress to these standrads. Many think girls need to have nice hair, clean cut nails, skinny, between 5'4 to 5'9, and that they need to dress apporiate for public (meaning they want their girls to wearing clothes that reveil themselves a little. ) What kind of girl would dress like that for her boyfreind.
We think girls should dress they way they want and whatever makes them feel comfortable. When we read the female responses, they all said girls need to be presentable in public but shoud wear what makes them comfortable.
Our main goal was to let the young girls who are just now figuring out the makeup thing, and let them know that they don't need any of that to make themselves feel pretty for anyone. Bascially our message is that if you feel pretty without the makeup then you are pretty without the makeup. If you feel pretty wearing makeup I'm sure you're pretty without the makeup. We don't need all this makeup piled on our faces to look pretty we are pretty without it. everyone is. I hope that in the future when girls are growing up they don't feel the need to buy piles and piles of make to feel pretty. Our beauty comes out from the inside, and we all need to realize that.