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I wasn’t able to present my individual presentation on Roxane Gay, so I’m posting on the blog for you all. Roxane was born on October 15th, 1974 in Omaha, Nebraska. She is an American feminist writer, professor, editor, and commentator. She is also an associate professor of English at Purdue University, and is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times. Roxane Gay is the founder of ‘Tiny Hardcore Press’, an independent publisher and small press. Roxane is best known as the writer of the New York Times best-selling essay collection ‘Bad Feminist’. This is a quote from her book: “I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying--trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.” I attached a video to this post of Roxane Gay’s TED Talk. Thanks! 

Keelin Clancy

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Mental Wellness Activism! Interventions and human connections in the EMU! Phenomenal final project, congratulations!

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#BlackLivesMatters! Remaking UO for Black Lives and equality! Phenomenal final project, congratulations!

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Ecofeminist Group Two! Participatory poster and ecofeminist tags! Phenomenal final project, congratulations!

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Media and Representation! Bechdel Test and Feminist Films! Phenomenal final project, congratulations!

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Ecofeminist Group One! Remapping the campus through plants and migration! Phenomenal final project, congratulations! 

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With Jess, Milana, and Izzy! Art/Act alumni panel, and their inspiring words for us! 

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With ecofeminist artist Margaretha Haughwout and our class! Inspiring Skype lecture! 

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Wonderful class visit with artist Maria de Los Angeles! 

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Being a Better Ally for Undocumented Immigrants

My zine was a compilation of facts and tips in order to better equip documented folks with tools on how to be a better ally for undocumented immigrants. I chose this topic because I feel it’s an identity that isn’t often recognized for it’s own adversities and hardships, and can get lumped in with the issues faced by POC or immigrants as a whole.

I used a variety of resources, all online, to create my zine. I went to government sponsored websites like the IRS’ website, in order to accurately define official immigration terms, and websites like Define American and Vivala for information on immigration and the arts. 

My zine can be found physically though our professor Margret Rhee.

-Delaney Motter

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Mental Health on the UO Campus

Project by: Emily Doyen, Marisa Rainbow, Mirella Alecandru, Peyton Roberts and Nini Grace 

Our project aims to vocalize the need for mental health awareness, specifically at a university setting. Our goal was to break the surface illusion of the “okay” student. There are hidden struggles and emotions that everyone shy away from expressing. We provided the contact information to on campus resources.

Using a large poster board, we glued printed bubble letters that said “I’m okay.” After completing the project, we asked fellow students at the EMU to write down a word/adjective to describe how they are feeling today; In attempt to move past the stigma of mental health as a taboo subject and grant it the same level of concern as physical health. 

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We are young aspiring students that have all come from different backgrounds. We come from different places and we hold differing morals. No matter our intersectional differences we have like minded beliefs. Our belief is that no life should be held to a higher value than another. We have all been born into our current circumstances. Intelligence nor money nor skill of any type should put one’s life at higher value because as humans we all have great potential, it is only the exterior circumstances of the world that stunt our ability to reach our potential. Black live Matter is a statement that Black lives are human lives and they matter just as much as any other life. This strong statement is a the power behind the movement to continue fighting for the basic rights of Black people. The only way we can tackle and eradicate these societal issues is by working together and putting aside difference. We all know that in justice towards people of color has gone on since the inception of this country and there is a dire need for a change in this pattern and continuation of discrimination, disenfranchisement and death.

We photoshopped a blackllivesmatter shirt onto the University of Oregon mascot, Puddles the Duck, and added an alarming statistic in order to expose the racial inequalities on our seemingly diverse campus.

http://adanewmedia.org/2015/01/issue6-cooperrhee/

http://blacklivesmatter.com/

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Eco-feminism group project by Jordan Cox, Nick Fay, and Karynne Prudehomme.

Our main goal of this project was to create awareness among UO students  about a topic that many people may not be aware of. We wanted an image that would grab the attention of people and then the slips of paper were made available as a way to inform as well as start a conversation about ecofeminism.

 https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/04/14/10-actual-words-and-phrases-in-a-feminist-alphabet-n1984102

  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/16/feminism-glossary-lexicon-language/99120600/

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Eco-Feminist Group Project

[by: Jake Rutledge; CJ Keshap; Eva Grandemange; Miyui Sato]

Our project on ecofeminism was born of an interesting comparison. We went around the UO campus, which is something of an arboretum with lots of diverse plants and trees from all over the world, collecting specimens that originate on three different continents, and we realized that this campus is also a sort of human arboretum with lots of diverse people from all over the world. The 2005 publication of University of Oregon Atlas of Trees marks the increased understanding of the importance of trees on campus, as part of a larger ecosystem, as a parallel with the society, as a whole. According to University of Oregon, « our society will place a higher value on trees, looking beyond economic issues to the special presence and connection to the earth that they provide in our daily lives. 

And that made us think about the feminist concept of the "global care chain", which is the economic and social phenomenon where poorer women from the Global South migrate to Global North countries to serve as care workers doing mothering tasks as nannies and maids. This is the female underside of globalization (Hochschild, 2002). Indeed, the migration streams are not randomly selected, but instead, emerge from prior links established through colonialism or preexisting cultural and economic ties (Murphy, 2014). This importation of people around the world is very similar to the large-scale importation of new crops and seeds all over the world, through a colonial exploitation of nature.

The movement of people and non-human organisms around the world is a source of tremendous value, but it is also the site of tremendous oppression and destruction. Invasive species can decimate local ecosystems and global agribusiness can destroy the soil and water resources of various regions when they import plant crops that weren't meant to be grown in those regions. In the same way the movement of people in the world's militaries and wars can also be a source of destruction. And the exploitation and oppression of immigrants is a global problem as well.

But on the flip side, immigrants enrich the world's countries, allowing for cultural cross pollination that is the source of so much advancement in technology, art, and activism. Immigration allows societies to grow without becoming stagnant or overcrowded (Kruh, 2012). And in the same way, the importation of new crops and plants has enriched the world so much. Potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco from the Americas enriched the cultures of Europe, and the importation of palm trees from tropical places into desert regions such as California and Arizona has been a helpful addition of biodiversity, shade, and improvement to the visual landscape.

The way this relates to ecofeminist activism is that struggles have to be fought to ensure that immigrants are not exploited or oppressed, as well to fight against invasive species or the environmentally destructive practices of agribusiness. Multi culture species of trees have been replaced by monocultural species, making a parallel between the trees and women, subordinated by the international market (Warren, 1997). The global movement of living organisms, human and nonhuman, is the site of great oppression but also great creation and diversity, if we are aware about it.The main danger of this globalization is to take it for granted and to forget the « natural » is political.

Reference

Hochschild, A. (2002). Global woman: nannies, maids and sex workers in the new ecnomy. New York: Metropolitan Press.

Kruh, U. (May 08, 2012). Immigration is good, immigration is bad, migration is (a fact). Transform! Europe. Retrieved from http://www.transform-network.net/publications/yearbook/article//immigration-is-good-immigration-is-bad-migration-is-a-fact/

Murphy, M. (October 2014). Global care chains, commodity chains, and the valuation of care: a theoretical discussion. American International Journal of Social Science. Retrieved from: http://www.aijssnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_5_October_2014/19.pdf

University Planning Office, (2012). Altas of Trees. University of Oregon. Retrieved from https://cpfm.uoregon.edu/sites/cpfm2.uoregon.edu/files/treeatlas_webversion_07_31_2012reduced.pdf

Warren, K. (1997). Ecofeminism: women, culture, nature. Indiana University Press.

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EO week 10

This article talks about how the new “Wonder Woman” movie represents subversive feminism

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/05/why-wonder-woman-is-a-masterpiece-of-subversive-feminism

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Representation in the Media: Zine Post

As an all female-identified group, we found a common interest in female representation in the media. We decided to look at the Bechdel Test, and in order to pass the test, a film must meet the following criteria: It must have two women with names who talk to each other about something other than a man. This criteria sets a very low bar, and still an immense number of movies do not pass it. We decided to celebrate the films that do pass it by cutting out photos of them and collaging them into the female symbol: ♀ However, our project also hopes to challenge the idea that any movie that passes the test is feminist, because many of the films in the collage contain grave implications regarding dominant discourses around women. The project aims to bring awareness to the fact that this test sets an extremely low bar that still many films have a hard time passing while also recognizing that many of the films that do pass still perpetuate oppressive narratives about women. We hope to spark a dialogue about female representation in the media and the ways women are underrepresented, misrepresented, and stereotyped. We are hanging the poster pictured below in the EMU at University of Oregon to prompt conversation about this issue.

Yukino Kitayama, Allison Trujillo, Helen Krieger, Emily O’Connor, Keelin Clancy, and Elise Hodge

 Outside sources:

For the list of movies that pass the Bechdel Test: http://bechdeltest.com

For the quote from Alison Bechdel describing the test: http://www.azquotes.com/author/1107-Alison_Bechdel

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Mental illness is not something we can simply mask with pills it is something that we need to research and focus on so that those people don’t feel alone. It can be a team effort to surround those people with love and care not doctors and pills.