Service Learning Log Week 7

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.