The Radical Rosies Introduction 2020
Final Video Presentation 2020
Final Video Presentation 2021
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Gender inequality is an issue that has been relevant in society for quite sometime. The patriarchy must be destroyed in order for all genders to attain the equality that is deserved. Males are often always seen as the aggressor towards females, but gender inequality is not just a female issue, it concerns all genders. It is not only important to teach males how to respect women or any other gender affiliation, but it is vice versa. There is a lack of appreciation of a whole person.
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How Can You Get Involved? |
Spread the word, be engaged, and participate in activities. You can also, listen to our podcast to learn about important issues within our community and improve your mindset on the equality of all genders. Make sure to look at the Project/Planner Events tab to see our Event Calendar!
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Process
We met every Thursday after school from 3:15pm to 4:30pm in our coach’s classroom (307) and every other Friday in our school Oral Art’s Room. We also met in our coach’s classroom at nutrition and lunch for necessary additional meetings throughout the week. During the meetings we spent time updating our website, planning future events, creating flyers to post around school and on our Instagram, creating and finalizing videos for our school broadcasts, finding ways to reach out to our community, and contacting other organizations to collaborate with in our events.
Currently, we meet every Tuesday at 3:45pm-4:30pm on Zoom to plan our virtual events, discuss what is to be added to our website, discuss ideas for Instagram posts, create new topics, and activities for our viewers to do in order to smash the patriarchy and gender stereotypes while at home.
Project Planners:
Broadcast
Pre-register to Vote
Breaking Valentine's Day
Empowerment Fair
Equality Resource Fair
Blue vs. Pink
Currently, we meet every Tuesday at 3:45pm-4:30pm on Zoom to plan our virtual events, discuss what is to be added to our website, discuss ideas for Instagram posts, create new topics, and activities for our viewers to do in order to smash the patriarchy and gender stereotypes while at home.
Project Planners:
Broadcast
Pre-register to Vote
Breaking Valentine's Day
Empowerment Fair
Equality Resource Fair
Blue vs. Pink
Team Events
School Broadcasts
We advocated our movement on our school’s broadcast and promoted our events to our school’s entire staff and student body.
Pre-Register to Vote
On January 29th and 31st we decided to set up a Pre-registration booth since the 2020 elections are right around the corner. The plan for the booth was to get the idea of voting out to all of the freshmen up to senior class and our community. In exposing them to the process and having them participate, it allows them to get a much more clear idea on how there voice also matters and how they have power to change things. There were so many people that were not able to Per-register due to their age but instead of excluding them they were able to make a pledge to register once they become of age. This event was a really big and important for us and we are proud to say that in those two days we were able to Per-register over 50 people.
Breaking Valentine's Day
On February 14, 2020 one of our members decided to create a booth for Valentines Day that was meant to represent all of the different forms of love. The booth was a big hit with all of the students, because it gave them all the chance to write a letter or a simple note to whoever they wanted without feeling embarrassed. The letters were all different colors with each one representing a Geek form of love. The whole point of this activity was to allow the students to give someone else a small gift that had a really big meaning attached to it.
Mon-Friday Instagram Videos
Weekly we post different segments that address the fight for gender equality in different ways. Our different segments are: Motivational Monday’s, Sing-a-long Tuesday’s. We Talk Wednesday’s, TikTok Thursday’s, and Recap Friday’s on our Instagram. Each member contributes to a different segment each day. To learn more about our virtual events, check out the virtual events tab.
Movie Night Screening Knock Down the House
On Friday, April 24th we hosted a netflix party, showcasing the Netflix Original Documentary, Knock Down the House. The documentary was about four powerful women, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin, who created a movement of candidates to challenge high-supported members in Congress. The fight directly addresses the need to smash patriarchy and how we should go about it.
Radical Week
From April 27th to May 1st we posted interactive virtual activities for our supporters to participate in. We included activities that addressed the wellness of a person, self-expression, and we intended to have a session to listen to a female politician and learn about her fight to smash the patriarchy, which is postponed for now. To learn more about our Radical Week, check out the virtual events tab.
Instagram Live with Cori Bush
On May 1st, we intended to go live on Instagram with Cori Bush and host a Q&A about her fight for a seat in Congress and how she aims to smash the patriarchy; however we are postponing it for another date in the near future.
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The way we expanded our project beyond our school walls was by attending The Women's March 2020. In doing so we also promoted our social accounts in our protest art to gain some recognition. Another way we have involved our community is by hosting a Pre-registration to Vote event during two basketball games, one actually sponsored by adidas. We had the chance to share our movement with student from other schools and have them engage with our booth. We had a photo booth and some treats alongside the pre-registration booths, in which attendees had the chance to participate with their friends and family. We had attempted to have an Equality Resource Fair on our schools annual Women’s Day, but due to COVID-19 we were unable to host it this year, along with many other activities. We had reached out to our community to attend and special guests to help spread our word and join the event. Now we are virtually expanding when we host daily segments and messages through our Instagram page, through social media we even had the chance to gain support form politician Cori Bush. We intended to host a Q&A on our Instagram live on May 1, 2020; however, we postponed for a date in the future. Also, as a result of COVID-19 the Rosies have also chosen to give back to our community with our budget money, we will be giving gift cards to those in need and to some seniors.
We will expand beyond the walls of our school by being active on social media and making our podcast available to the public. This will allow us to bring our goal and movement to light not just in L.A. but everywhere where gender inequality exists. Collaborating with other organizations would also give us the opportunity to continue to form and strengthen our cause. |
Outcome
Our team's goal is to one day be able to live in a society where we are no longer judged by our gender or physical aspects, we are no longer employed or given a salary based on gender, that one day we are able to live in a society where gender “roles” are out of the window and rather live in a place where we are all given the same opportunity.
We are here to educate the community the effects of gender stereotypes have on a person physically, emotionally, and mentally, where we want to smash the patriarchy one gender stereotype at a time. As a group we are encouraging people to speak up and support us to suppress this ongoing battle. Our goal is to bsee and live in a community where people will no longer define each other due to their gender. We have long lived in a society where women and men have been given a “role” or held accountable at certain expectations that they should “meet at a certain time of their life; for example: women are raised believing that they need to learn how to cook, clean, bare and raise children, and maintain a household. Men are raised in this mindset, that they were born to work and provide for the home, that they are not allowed to show emotions or weakness because that is not “manly” or they are supposed to make the money at home. Now is the time to prove that all genders are to be equal and are deserving of the same opportunities, we need to break the cycle!
We need to continue to battle and win the war against gender inequality. We need to break the gender roles society has long engraved and embedded in our people. Both, men and women can accomplish the same things.
Through the events we hosted from January to February, it was an opportunity to make a difference in the community. We wanted to voice they we should not settle for what society believes is right for us to do so based on our gender. If we change the mindset of our community we will be able to have an equal community. For example, in out Pre-register to Vote to events we approximately got about fifty students pre-registered, engaged 500 people both days of the event, and also had a number of people to pledge to vote. In the outcome of these events we encouraged people to take a role in voting or in the political aspect of the society. We brought it to their attention that the people who are taking roles in the government are typically rich white men; therefore, we want to see more diversity in the government not just in the color but more women active in politics. Women have as much potential as a man and through this event we are able to educate students to think about their future. We were able to educate them on the power of voting and what changes are needed to made in our goverment in order to smash the patriarchy.
During our Breaking Valentines Day event we held a booth and educated students on the different types of love: storge, philia, agape, and eros; instead of just focsing on romantic love. People should not feel ashamed giving a card or gift to someone that they feel grateful for whether it's a guy or a girl. Through this event we engaged about 1600 students and had about 100 hundred students acutally participate in writing their peers/friends a note on a card that fit their love for that person.
Our goal was and to continue to truly impact and encourage our community to join our movement. Our intial short term outcome was to get all genders to show more respect towards each other. Our project has given all genders the opportunity to work together as one, by being educated on why we need both genders to be involved in our government, why we should break gender norms, and why genders should be able to express themselves. During, this pandemic we have posted daily on our Instagram to motivate our viewers/students to stay strong and provided ways of how to smash the patriarchy while at home. During this pandemic the need for support and love is a neccesity. We have done our best to shine light in this dark and motivate our supporters. A long term outcome to the community was having equality for all genders, throughout this project with the events we have done and what we are doing right now it is allowing everyone to get educated on the problems that each gender faces daily and how together as one we can make it work. We are still striving to gain equality for all genders and for all genders to gain respect for each other.
We are here to educate the community the effects of gender stereotypes have on a person physically, emotionally, and mentally, where we want to smash the patriarchy one gender stereotype at a time. As a group we are encouraging people to speak up and support us to suppress this ongoing battle. Our goal is to bsee and live in a community where people will no longer define each other due to their gender. We have long lived in a society where women and men have been given a “role” or held accountable at certain expectations that they should “meet at a certain time of their life; for example: women are raised believing that they need to learn how to cook, clean, bare and raise children, and maintain a household. Men are raised in this mindset, that they were born to work and provide for the home, that they are not allowed to show emotions or weakness because that is not “manly” or they are supposed to make the money at home. Now is the time to prove that all genders are to be equal and are deserving of the same opportunities, we need to break the cycle!
We need to continue to battle and win the war against gender inequality. We need to break the gender roles society has long engraved and embedded in our people. Both, men and women can accomplish the same things.
Through the events we hosted from January to February, it was an opportunity to make a difference in the community. We wanted to voice they we should not settle for what society believes is right for us to do so based on our gender. If we change the mindset of our community we will be able to have an equal community. For example, in out Pre-register to Vote to events we approximately got about fifty students pre-registered, engaged 500 people both days of the event, and also had a number of people to pledge to vote. In the outcome of these events we encouraged people to take a role in voting or in the political aspect of the society. We brought it to their attention that the people who are taking roles in the government are typically rich white men; therefore, we want to see more diversity in the government not just in the color but more women active in politics. Women have as much potential as a man and through this event we are able to educate students to think about their future. We were able to educate them on the power of voting and what changes are needed to made in our goverment in order to smash the patriarchy.
During our Breaking Valentines Day event we held a booth and educated students on the different types of love: storge, philia, agape, and eros; instead of just focsing on romantic love. People should not feel ashamed giving a card or gift to someone that they feel grateful for whether it's a guy or a girl. Through this event we engaged about 1600 students and had about 100 hundred students acutally participate in writing their peers/friends a note on a card that fit their love for that person.
Our goal was and to continue to truly impact and encourage our community to join our movement. Our intial short term outcome was to get all genders to show more respect towards each other. Our project has given all genders the opportunity to work together as one, by being educated on why we need both genders to be involved in our government, why we should break gender norms, and why genders should be able to express themselves. During, this pandemic we have posted daily on our Instagram to motivate our viewers/students to stay strong and provided ways of how to smash the patriarchy while at home. During this pandemic the need for support and love is a neccesity. We have done our best to shine light in this dark and motivate our supporters. A long term outcome to the community was having equality for all genders, throughout this project with the events we have done and what we are doing right now it is allowing everyone to get educated on the problems that each gender faces daily and how together as one we can make it work. We are still striving to gain equality for all genders and for all genders to gain respect for each other.
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Reflection |
Radical Rosies is the name that we are proud to claim, it was originally created by the 2016 Girls Build LA group of empowering women striving to make an impact in their community, showing people that being a woman does not stop you from trying to make your community a better place. Their work and end goal inspired us to continue their legacy of making an impact not just in the community but in our school where many of our peers come from different environments. We want to show how whether being a female, male, or transgender, everyone in this world has the right and power to encourage people that we can make a change in our society. Therefore, no one should be criticized or judged based on their physical appearance or for who they are. We are the Radical Rosies addressing gender inequality because it's not just women suffering from inequality, but men and members of the LGBTQ+ community are suffering as well. Our community needs to be educated on the effects gender stereotypes have on the mind, body, and soul of a person. We are all humans, we have feelings, words can hurt people. All these unnecessary pressures can lead to mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, or PTSD. Many students of our age do not accept themselves for who they are mentally, physically, emotionally, or all of the above. Our society has affected the physical, emotional, and mental health of numerous people because they do not feel accepted, which is devastating. After all, as a community, we should love one another for being who we are.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic had occurred, we were surprised that as a group of young female leaders we got to make a change. Our events such as the Pre-Register to Vote and Breaking Valentine’s Day events were recognized by our classmates who were interested in hearing more about our movement and our goals. As a group, we put our best effort into accomplishing to smash the patriarchy one gender stereotype at a time. Only did we not get recognized in school but by other organizations, such as the Las Fotos, who are a group of young ladies raising the importance of teenage girls in a diverse community through photography. We had contacted them to make a collaboration with them for our Gender Equality Fair, capturing inspiring moments of students and outside organizations participating in our school-wide fair that was intended to be held on March 27, 2020. Due to COVID-19, we had to postpone the fair, hopefully, we can host it next year for 2021. Through our Pre-Register to Vote event, we educated our peers and our community to not wait until they are 18 years of age to vote and be heard in the political community. You can pre-register to vote at the age of 16. Our government needs to hear our voices, because our votes/voices matter, we are the people making a change in all aspects of society. Whether being a person of color, female or male, we all have the equal right to speak up about the issues we face daily. It is time to speak up for ourselves as human beings we have the power to do what men or women do, just because we are women the community underestimates us, assuming that every woman is vulnerable and delicate. By being a male you already have more power in the community because the people see men as strong, fearless, and brave. Now it's time to break those gender stereotypes because everyone has the right to succeed in life. Through our Breaking Valentine's Day event, we educated our peers about the different types of love. People can love each other in a variety of different ways. It does not have to be the love we see in our community, such as men and women. It can be self-love, friendship, brotherly, and community love. This event was phenomenal because we got the chance to have a collaboration with two other groups in our school, who was supporting the LGBTQ+ community, representing them, showing that they are important as well everyone is despite who they are. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was surprising that our main goal of hosting our very first Equality Resource Fair was postponed. We transformed our plan entirely to using our social media as our main source to influence our viewers/students to continue to show gender inequality. Every week we have a different topic; for example, we did a week on mental health relating to how gender inequality affects a human being. During these hard times, it's challenging for people to stay in a positive mindset because everyone has lost something during this pandemic. Whether it is a job or a loved one, it is difficult to show that you're okay on the outside, in reality, you're hurting and confused inside. We encouraged everyone to stay positive and to do an activity with us during our Radical Week with the free time that they have now. Something we would like to share with the judges is that we would continue doing this project next to the academic year 2020-2021. Once we graduate next spring, we will encourage future Radical Rosies and guide them through this amazing opportunity, even when we are off to college. |