Project Need |
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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Anticipated Outcome |
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How Can You Get Involved? |
You can ask spread the word, be engaged, participate in activities, and improve their mindset of the equality of all genders. You can also listen to our podcast to get educated on important issues within our community and beyond. Your involvement will help us in achieving our goal by spreading the word and improving the mindset of our youth on equality of all genders.
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Process
Currently, we meet every Tuesday and Thursday at 3:00pm-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:
Book Club Planner
Podcast Planner
Project Planners:
Book Club Planner
Podcast Planner
Team Events
Radical Rosies Book Club
We interacted with Radical Rosie's Book Club Members via zoom meetings where we read and discuss a specific topic related to patriarchy, sexism, feminism, women, toxic masculinity, and/or women of color in relation to Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall.
Keeping It Radical With the Rosies
We created a podcast focused on the book Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. Our book club members and fellow Rosies held discussions centered on the feminist struggle as women of color. We were able to use this as an outlet to talk about how feminists that are women of color face oppression within the feminist community.
Civic Engagement |
We expanded our project beyond the walls of our school by hosting a book club, podcast, and interacting with our followers on social media. We were able to connect with people within our community and supporters online. We produced a couple of segments on social media, In My Book and On this Sunday We Honor, to teach and people worldwide. With us all transitioning to living in virtual communities it was a struggle to directly engage with others and have a consistent interaction. However, we kept our DMs open to anyone willing to join our book club, chat with us, and give us some suggestions. Overall this has been a very mentally draining year and we did our best to provide a space for people to destress and learn more about women empowerment.
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Outcome
This year has been a difficult experience for everyone. We managed to do our best and formulate ways in which we can make a difference while being completely virtual. However, it had its struggles considering what has constantly transpired in the media and technological issues. It was a challenge to get everyone to meet every week due to personal obligations, but we did our best to make it work. We also put our members' mental health first and paced ourselves. We are a group spearheaded by seniors, therefore there were many things that were weighing on them. In all, we are proud of what we accomplished and glad to be a part of the change. We hosted a book club, produced a podcast, and both educated and interacted with supporters on social media.
Being that our book club focused on the phenomenal book Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall, we were able to have some amazing discussions. Kendall’s book really goes in depth with the struggles and barriers that we soon have to overcome as feminist women of color, in order to see real change occur in this society. We were able to get over seven young ladies to engage in our book club. Our book club opened the doors to our community and the internet to engage in conversations that needed to be started in order to create change. At this moment in time the severeness of the oppression that people of color face is coming to surface and being thrown in our faces on a daily basis. Suffering from systematic racism is already one struggle, however the lack of support in the feminist community is another. We are ironically pushed to the forefront to address problems but we lack in having support from our fellow feminist leaders. These conversations allowed us to create a safe space and outlet to fully express ourselves and deepest thoughts. This was a great experience to connect like minded and relatable people. We are completely brutally honest about our feelings and suffering.
Our The Radical Truth with the Rosies podcast allowed us to broadcast our steamy and raw conversations that we had during our book club meetings. We were able to share will our internet supporters that real and uncut feelings that women of color have in reaction to the oppression that we both in the world and in the feminist community. I believe our radical Rosies and book club members were able to share some great insight and perspectives of the struggle of being a woman of color in a systematically racist society.
Our engagement on social media was both subtle and impactful. Our two segments, In My Book and On this Sunday We Honor allowed us to share a feminist perspective of this society and uplift women in history. One of our fellow rosies, Blair Adams was able to relay some powerful messages and perspectives of this patriarchal society and what Hood Feminism is to her. Our On This Sunday segment allowed us to educate our supporters on women in history that aren’t commonly talked about and emphasize this excellence. We are able to have 50 people to view and interact with our social media posts. Both segments allowed us to reach and teach our virtual supporters and people all over the world.
In all we have all struggled this year with keeping sane, trying to cope with having to be home the majority of the time, and having to suffer through the racial trauma that is being inflicted upon us everyday. We did our best to collectively produce content and host things that allowed us to have an outlet to speak out about the struggles we faced and others have faced. We did our best to continue to fight the good fight and smash the patriarchy.
Being that our book club focused on the phenomenal book Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall, we were able to have some amazing discussions. Kendall’s book really goes in depth with the struggles and barriers that we soon have to overcome as feminist women of color, in order to see real change occur in this society. We were able to get over seven young ladies to engage in our book club. Our book club opened the doors to our community and the internet to engage in conversations that needed to be started in order to create change. At this moment in time the severeness of the oppression that people of color face is coming to surface and being thrown in our faces on a daily basis. Suffering from systematic racism is already one struggle, however the lack of support in the feminist community is another. We are ironically pushed to the forefront to address problems but we lack in having support from our fellow feminist leaders. These conversations allowed us to create a safe space and outlet to fully express ourselves and deepest thoughts. This was a great experience to connect like minded and relatable people. We are completely brutally honest about our feelings and suffering.
Our The Radical Truth with the Rosies podcast allowed us to broadcast our steamy and raw conversations that we had during our book club meetings. We were able to share will our internet supporters that real and uncut feelings that women of color have in reaction to the oppression that we both in the world and in the feminist community. I believe our radical Rosies and book club members were able to share some great insight and perspectives of the struggle of being a woman of color in a systematically racist society.
Our engagement on social media was both subtle and impactful. Our two segments, In My Book and On this Sunday We Honor allowed us to share a feminist perspective of this society and uplift women in history. One of our fellow rosies, Blair Adams was able to relay some powerful messages and perspectives of this patriarchal society and what Hood Feminism is to her. Our On This Sunday segment allowed us to educate our supporters on women in history that aren’t commonly talked about and emphasize this excellence. We are able to have 50 people to view and interact with our social media posts. Both segments allowed us to reach and teach our virtual supporters and people all over the world.
In all we have all struggled this year with keeping sane, trying to cope with having to be home the majority of the time, and having to suffer through the racial trauma that is being inflicted upon us everyday. We did our best to collectively produce content and host things that allowed us to have an outlet to speak out about the struggles we faced and others have faced. We did our best to continue to fight the good fight and smash the patriarchy.
Evidence
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Reflection |
This year was definitely a rollercoaster for everyone. We were completely blindsided by the pandemic, virtual learning, and social and political unrest. Therefore, it was a struggle to consistently collaborate. However we were able to construct some great ideas that will potentially carry on to next year’s project. We started two new segments on our Instagram titled, In My Book and On This Sunday We Honor. Our In My Book segment allowed one of our fabulous team members to share her thoughts and start up conversations pertaining to the feminist struggle. We intended to share a feminist perspective, get our viewers to think about what change is still needed to be made in society, and how they can contribute to that change. Moreover, the On This Sunday We Honor segment allowed us to educate our viewers about some amazing women in history that have done great work. Women aren’t appreciated in society as much as they should, so we wanted to share some historical figures that aren’t talked about enough. All women from all walks of life are to be celebrated, so we wanted to use our social media to do just that. We have also started up a book club and podcast. We created a book club focused on the book Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. Kendall truly elaborates on how women of color have to suffer from oppression within the feminist community and the additional struggles we have to face. We thought this was a perfect book to discuss with others within our community. For a couple of Tuesdays we were able to discuss a chapter with our book club members and have those hard conversations. We were able to truly connect with each other, share our thoughts, and think of ways that could possibly lead us to change. In addition, we started a podcast named Keeping it Radical With the Rosies. On that podcast we were able to record some of the discussions we had during our book club and let our social media followers into the conversation. We intended for this podcast to be a way to start those conversations that allow marginalized voices to be heard and people of color to have an outlet to express their opinions and pain.
Moreover we did get to see how our hard work has paid off. Our Co-project manager Kelese Bryant had the opportunity to interview our current California senator, Alex Padilla. She was able to ask him some very popular and intriguing questions pertaining to voting. We are elated to see that opportunity unfold, cheer her on, and see how her dedication hasn’t gone unnoticed. Overall this has been a trying year. From the technological/internet issues, decline in mental health, online schooling, and the constant murders within the communities of people of color has made it hard to really push the ideas we planned to carry on. The ongoing technological/wifi issues hindered our meeting schedule and collaboration. Being a team spearheaded by seniors has been a struggle on its own. On the other hand, we were still able to put out some great content and still fight the good fight. We are proud of what we have accomplished and we intend to continue to do great work. |