Jen Ackerman
Nina Perez
4/1/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week I continued filming for the video we are working on. Again I filmed on a Tuesday ( the 30th) at the EQUAL meeting at Tent City. Needless to say it was even more crazy than the meeting at Nature, but fun I guess nonetheless. At the meeting I found some of the same people that I already taped as well as new people I met at the meeting. The tricky thing about our PSA if that the message plays of stereotypes, which makes for a very awkward conversation when I was ask an African American girl I have just met to look right in the camera and say niggar. By the end of the night I mostly got everything I needed and continue to be excited about this part of our project.
Reflection: Because the EQUAL meeting took place at Tent City this week, there was even more of a diverse group floating about. Not necessarily gay, not necessarily transgendered or transexual in anyway, but just different people, some from all different groups around UCF and some that just wanted to see what was going on. With this diverse yet somehow connected group I was reminded of the Glorida Anzaldua quote from her piece "The Homeland." "The lifeblood of two worlds have merged forming a third country, or a border culture." This could not be a better description of the group that surrounded me at Tent City. I feel like most boundaries were broken this week and I saw a group of very, very, different people get upset about an issue that had nothing to do with them. Our border culture sees and comes from both sides of this problem and yet still finds a way to be apart of their world and our world.
Reflection: This week made me feel so good about everything we are working for. I cannot believe the reaction we are getting from even complete strangers. The more of I work on this project the more I feel inclined to just start approaching everyone I see about being in a video like I am making, simply to make them think.
""The Homeland" Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk. Comp. Margo
Okazawa-Rey. By Gloria Anzaldua New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages,
2003. 285-90. Print.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Service Learning Log Week 6
Jen Ackerman
Nina Perez
3/29/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week on Tuesday (March 23rd) I went to the EQUAL meeting that was taking place at Natura on University. I wasn't really expecting it to be a very serious meeting and it pretty much wasn't. I went there to finally begin filming for the PSA (public service announcement) for our campaign. While there I found the people that either I or Rebecca Marques had contacted prior to the meeting to start filming, and I also had some people do it who I just asked that night. I got around ten people for the piece and later that night went over them with Rebecca. Unfortunately it looks like I am going to need to do some more filming because a lot of the lighting and sound came out very poorly. Still thought I am very glad we have finally started.
Reflection: In the "I Am Not a Rapist," piece we read by John Stoltenburg, it is a complaint by one of the boys interviewed that he is sick of women just assuming he is a rapist or in some way dangerous (288). I feel like a lot of the people that have been helping us our with our project think much similar to this. Instead of a rapist, I think a lot of the people working on this project are sick of feeling like they aren't doing anything for others in their community, and also sick of being viewed by others as intolerant or not accepting and unsupportive. Many of the people that were taped for the PSA are not necessarily card carrying members of the queer community but this just didn't matter. Just as the young men in the interview with Stoltenburg felt a need to act for women, the people in our community feel the need to act and stand up for the "others," in this case being the transgender collective.
Reciprocity: Filming on Tuesday was really the only thing I did this week and it was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. It was not easy for me to contact and ask people to participate in something like this because I was asking a lot. However after I registered the response I was getting it was such a great feeling.
""I Am Not a Rapist!"" Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk. Comp. Margo
Okazawa-Rey. By John Stoltenberg. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages,
2003. 285-90. Print.
Nina Perez
3/29/10
Introduction to Women's Studies
Activism: This week on Tuesday (March 23rd) I went to the EQUAL meeting that was taking place at Natura on University. I wasn't really expecting it to be a very serious meeting and it pretty much wasn't. I went there to finally begin filming for the PSA (public service announcement) for our campaign. While there I found the people that either I or Rebecca Marques had contacted prior to the meeting to start filming, and I also had some people do it who I just asked that night. I got around ten people for the piece and later that night went over them with Rebecca. Unfortunately it looks like I am going to need to do some more filming because a lot of the lighting and sound came out very poorly. Still thought I am very glad we have finally started.
Reflection: In the "I Am Not a Rapist," piece we read by John Stoltenburg, it is a complaint by one of the boys interviewed that he is sick of women just assuming he is a rapist or in some way dangerous (288). I feel like a lot of the people that have been helping us our with our project think much similar to this. Instead of a rapist, I think a lot of the people working on this project are sick of feeling like they aren't doing anything for others in their community, and also sick of being viewed by others as intolerant or not accepting and unsupportive. Many of the people that were taped for the PSA are not necessarily card carrying members of the queer community but this just didn't matter. Just as the young men in the interview with Stoltenburg felt a need to act for women, the people in our community feel the need to act and stand up for the "others," in this case being the transgender collective.
Reciprocity: Filming on Tuesday was really the only thing I did this week and it was a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. It was not easy for me to contact and ask people to participate in something like this because I was asking a lot. However after I registered the response I was getting it was such a great feeling.
""I Am Not a Rapist!"" Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk. Comp. Margo
Okazawa-Rey. By John Stoltenberg. New York: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages,
2003. 285-90. Print.
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