Activism Weekly Log for Service Learning

    Activism:

On March 3,2012 Andrea Thompson, , Nadean Richards and myself conducted our first workshop with  Beautiful Butterflies Mentoring Program Inc. This week I didn’t know what to expect since it was the first time working with the girls age 9-10 . I believe we had an personal contact with the girls, Our sole purpose is to identify ,and impact lives .We  discussed with the girls about the power of  recognizing   commonalities ,and enhancing their individuality. When we said “commonalities” we know that the girls did not to know what it delineate  and I believe  the entreating part about it that we was able to “unpack” the word . Our success was at the end of the day we came with a goal  and we did just that. We also identify by sharing some of our life stories and by that we saw that the girls was interactive and outspoken and it made me feel great on the inside to know that I am doing something that I never saw or even encounter when I was in their age group . I believe our pitfalls was that we needed  to promote  it more so we can have a larger group . Our next workshop is approaching and I believe we did by  gave the girls who came flyers to their friends to create awareness about this type of activism . So we “Fight like a girl”  in the words of Megan Seely to contribute to our communities because as we no act is to small . 

 Reflection

I remember I was in class and I final understand the big picture of what it takes to be an activism the equation is this I (Micro)+Community(Meso)= WE (MACRO) .  So I believe in order to understand a Macro Level  we have to go back to what makes it up.  We read quite a bit ,but the one reading I believe took me on a journey about what it means to be consider as an activism is “Fight like a girl” Seely stated that we can share our stories ,lead by example ,and be activist in our own lives.  This week change and influence me by showing me that commonalties is a way to create new knowledge by politicizing ourselves .  I believe Beautiful Butterflies Mentoring Program Inc. is doing an remarkable  job in the community taking girls from risk to promise to enrich  the macro level by creating a activism by exploring the  Micro,Meso  level to make up the Macro level . This course is awesome it really had changed and reformed the passion for activism and understanding the world around  us.

    Reciprocity

I am learning that life is a course and experience is a teacher . I said this to say that sometime we tend to go through life and we all come from different social location that formed us and shape us in this world . It was my experience that taught me that problems are created  for shared commonalties in life . This also is causing me that my reflection  now is a testimonial  has not depleted or damage they all were experience for someone else in life because nothing is new under the sun ;I believe in life we all can find one person in life that went through the same thing in life .  A feminist would defined this as “ Commonalties are shared interest that  create effective social change and awareness of one’s individuality and self-worth ,so live your life as an activist “

          

Work Cited  

Seely, Megan. Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist. New York: NYU, 2007.

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A famous show girl, actress, icon, blue print of models was Norma Jeane Baker aka Marilyn Monroe. I chose this photo of her because she was the Jezebel (sex symbols, manipulative) of her time; she was primed by media, but was bleeding inside which led to her demise. All people saw was her breasts, her lips and her legs and not the scars inside of her. In the photo she’s putting on makeup, looking very confident, self-assured and composed; this is what society sees as beautiful. It didn’t matter that she was suffering with self-confidence and covering her inner pain. Beauty ideals have to do a lot with the “fit in factor “with many myths altering the facts with a great deal of social influences.

Yet” beauty has always been personal “our perceptions are different consequently society has social influence which are caused by real and imagined pressures. We buy the right clothes and cosmetic products. Many people work out obsessively, and others even develop eating disorders. Becoming obsessive in molding themselves into the outlines of fragment of beauty attraction.  Society has created a self-formula that has derails individual giving young girls an open concept of self. In the photo she looks as if she is confident but inside she was tormented, driven witless, but seen as fantastic, beautiful, and healthy, therefore you’re inside matter the most.

Original Photo of Marilyn Monroe

 

 

"If you're going to be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”― Marilyn Monroe

Work Citied

http://www.squidoo.com/marilyn-monroe-in-posters

Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women’s Lives Multicultural Perspectives. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.