May 1, 2010
week 9
Jessiel Gerena
Wst 3015
Nina Perez
April 22 2010
Activism: This week was our petiotining and tabling week . This week we tabled outside the student union . Outisde the student union we got an ok turnout ,several people who knew who Alice Paul was came right to the table and signed it . We tabled with NOW or National Organization for Women UCF chapter. They came out and helped us out in the free speech lawn. As it was earth day week we did have the help of progressive ogranuzations and Men against Rape were also putting on an event .Thursday is outside normal tabling hours at UCF but we decided to go to the Earth Day event at Lake Claire on campus. There we talbled with other like minded organizations. The college democrats(which Im a member of) helped us and so did now . We didn’t get much though from the event as most people were interested in getting free planrs.
Reflectioon: I thought this Earth Day event would have been perfect as we were talking abuout Ecofeminism in class. Ecofeminism is the connection between environmentalism and feminism .We learned that women are the keepers of the environment and therefore must protect it and is their duty alone to keep it . This can be related to our movement because some may seem that the women’s movment its for women by women(Perez). The problem with these statements is that it puts the responsiblitiy on women and doesn’t allow for men to help out or for inclusion. During the event we had an equal number of men/women participating and helping out in spreading knowledge of the environment demystifyinmg the stereotype that only women should be involed.
Reciproctiy:
We were able to bring people to this event ,which didn’t have many outside the usual organizations. This event was good because It brang a coalition of progressive that usually don’t get together. It was a good networking opputunity for the college democrats, we discussed that a lot of times that we tend to be insular. I think with a movement like this you must reach out and build strong coalitions.
Works Cited
Perez, NIna. "Ecofeminism." Ecofeminism. Classroom Building 1 Room 117, Orlando. 14 Apr. 2010. Lecture.
Wst 3015
Nina Perez
April 22 2010
Activism: This week was our petiotining and tabling week . This week we tabled outside the student union . Outisde the student union we got an ok turnout ,several people who knew who Alice Paul was came right to the table and signed it . We tabled with NOW or National Organization for Women UCF chapter. They came out and helped us out in the free speech lawn. As it was earth day week we did have the help of progressive ogranuzations and Men against Rape were also putting on an event .Thursday is outside normal tabling hours at UCF but we decided to go to the Earth Day event at Lake Claire on campus. There we talbled with other like minded organizations. The college democrats(which Im a member of) helped us and so did now . We didn’t get much though from the event as most people were interested in getting free planrs.
Reflectioon: I thought this Earth Day event would have been perfect as we were talking abuout Ecofeminism in class. Ecofeminism is the connection between environmentalism and feminism .We learned that women are the keepers of the environment and therefore must protect it and is their duty alone to keep it . This can be related to our movement because some may seem that the women’s movment its for women by women(Perez). The problem with these statements is that it puts the responsiblitiy on women and doesn’t allow for men to help out or for inclusion. During the event we had an equal number of men/women participating and helping out in spreading knowledge of the environment demystifyinmg the stereotype that only women should be involed.
Reciproctiy:
We were able to bring people to this event ,which didn’t have many outside the usual organizations. This event was good because It brang a coalition of progressive that usually don’t get together. It was a good networking opputunity for the college democrats, we discussed that a lot of times that we tend to be insular. I think with a movement like this you must reach out and build strong coalitions.
Works Cited
Perez, NIna. "Ecofeminism." Ecofeminism. Classroom Building 1 Room 117, Orlando. 14 Apr. 2010. Lecture.
WEEK 8
Week 8
Activism:This week I got time to edit the letter and curtail it to the different organizations and politicians. Instead of mailing the congress people’s office I found a easier alternative by mailing them. This was very important as these letters have to get to these offices and legitimize our movement. As these letters start arriving we can receive repsonses and start getting more action and spreading this movement across the country.Next week we are going to participate in tabling all week including earth day ,going along with our ecofeminism theme we talked about in class.
Reflection: This is a very important step as this is whats going to move our movement forward. This is also the part of the process where we can only sit back and wait to see the responses . The process is important because inorder to enact any legislation we must build a coaltion of like minded groups to get congress to support legislation. The groups such as the College Democrats,Emily’s List, and others. This coaltion is made of strong liberal/progressive groups that have strength in their ability to get their members to lobby for legislation.
Reciproctiy: Politics is sometimes politicians "Erotic" , This is what moves them in life. Politicians sometimes put there personal interest below their political interest(Erotic). There is sometimes in politics where politicians their politcal career in danger because they believe that what they are doing is right . Ive seen politics get in the way of constituent relationship , it makes them vulnerable in the next election and eventually lose their position as a policy maker. I say this because when such controversial things come before them they are reluctant to support it.
Works Cited
Lorde, Audre. "Uses of the Erotic(1984)." Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. By Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007. 162. Print.
Activism:This week I got time to edit the letter and curtail it to the different organizations and politicians. Instead of mailing the congress people’s office I found a easier alternative by mailing them. This was very important as these letters have to get to these offices and legitimize our movement. As these letters start arriving we can receive repsonses and start getting more action and spreading this movement across the country.Next week we are going to participate in tabling all week including earth day ,going along with our ecofeminism theme we talked about in class.
Reflection: This is a very important step as this is whats going to move our movement forward. This is also the part of the process where we can only sit back and wait to see the responses . The process is important because inorder to enact any legislation we must build a coaltion of like minded groups to get congress to support legislation. The groups such as the College Democrats,Emily’s List, and others. This coaltion is made of strong liberal/progressive groups that have strength in their ability to get their members to lobby for legislation.
Reciproctiy: Politics is sometimes politicians "Erotic" , This is what moves them in life. Politicians sometimes put there personal interest below their political interest(Erotic). There is sometimes in politics where politicians their politcal career in danger because they believe that what they are doing is right . Ive seen politics get in the way of constituent relationship , it makes them vulnerable in the next election and eventually lose their position as a policy maker. I say this because when such controversial things come before them they are reluctant to support it.
Works Cited
Lorde, Audre. "Uses of the Erotic(1984)." Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. By Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007. 162. Print.
Apr 14, 2010
Nims Island War: Nature vs Man
Jessiel Gerena
WST 3015
Nina Perez
April 14th 2010
Man vs nature
When we think of war we get this image of tanks, destruction, devastation, and death of many humans. We see war as something that is sometime necessary . As I been hearing this discussion of ecofeminism I have come to the conclusion that this struggle of human vs nature is like a war and can be compared to the militarization culture. When we discussed militarization we discussed the private vs public and the invasion of one culture into another. This can also be said about environmentalism , we have the public vs the private when he have humans invaded natures space and we have the militarization when you have the invasion and destruction of nature by human. This militarization can be seen also be seen in the human corportatization of islands. Island are usually environmentally isolated rarities and humans invade by desruction and commericialization of it. This can be seen in the childrens movie Nims Island.
Nim’s Island is children movie about a young girl named Nim who lives on an island and seeks out for her father whos missing. While shes seeks out her father , a tourist company tries to invade Nims island. In the movie she becomes friends with nature and the animals such as turtle,dragon, and a pelican(Nims Island). This is an example of what we talked about in class last Monday that women and girls are the keepers of the environment and intune with it. She protects the island when Jack(her father) goes to do research. This again perpetuates the stereotype that women are the protectors even though the father is seeking to help she blatantly makes it a point to stay behind and protect the turtles egg.(Perez)
Another subplot of the story that wasn’t discussed as part of this eco-feminist argument, is the tourism industry and how it it affects the environment. A lot of the tourism in this hemisphere is to the beautiful carribbean , what we don’t see when we’re on the beautiful beaches and nice hotels is the destruction due to this invasion. These tourist come in and destroy many of what is natural to this island environment to build these megahotels . this invasion can be seen as war between human and nature and how the public these peoples home and land is public because these companies are coming in and destroying it. In the movie Nim is the heroine in protecting the island from the tourist and industry.(Nims Island).Again this movie shows the role of women in protecting the environment(Perez). In conclusion , these depictions show the feminist perspective that women are the protectors and only women can help the environment. We must break these stereotypes and challenge them by adding positive roles of men and the environement.
Works cited
Nim's Island. Dir. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. By Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Paula Mazur, and Joseph Kwong. Prod. Paula Mazur. Perf. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. 20th Century Fox, 2008.
Perez, Nina. "Ecofeminism." University Of Central Florida, Orlando. 5 Apr. 2010. Lecture.
WST 3015
Nina Perez
April 14th 2010
Man vs nature
When we think of war we get this image of tanks, destruction, devastation, and death of many humans. We see war as something that is sometime necessary . As I been hearing this discussion of ecofeminism I have come to the conclusion that this struggle of human vs nature is like a war and can be compared to the militarization culture. When we discussed militarization we discussed the private vs public and the invasion of one culture into another. This can also be said about environmentalism , we have the public vs the private when he have humans invaded natures space and we have the militarization when you have the invasion and destruction of nature by human. This militarization can be seen also be seen in the human corportatization of islands. Island are usually environmentally isolated rarities and humans invade by desruction and commericialization of it. This can be seen in the childrens movie Nims Island.
Nim’s Island is children movie about a young girl named Nim who lives on an island and seeks out for her father whos missing. While shes seeks out her father , a tourist company tries to invade Nims island. In the movie she becomes friends with nature and the animals such as turtle,dragon, and a pelican(Nims Island). This is an example of what we talked about in class last Monday that women and girls are the keepers of the environment and intune with it. She protects the island when Jack(her father) goes to do research. This again perpetuates the stereotype that women are the protectors even though the father is seeking to help she blatantly makes it a point to stay behind and protect the turtles egg.(Perez)
Another subplot of the story that wasn’t discussed as part of this eco-feminist argument, is the tourism industry and how it it affects the environment. A lot of the tourism in this hemisphere is to the beautiful carribbean , what we don’t see when we’re on the beautiful beaches and nice hotels is the destruction due to this invasion. These tourist come in and destroy many of what is natural to this island environment to build these megahotels . this invasion can be seen as war between human and nature and how the public these peoples home and land is public because these companies are coming in and destroying it. In the movie Nim is the heroine in protecting the island from the tourist and industry.(Nims Island).Again this movie shows the role of women in protecting the environment(Perez). In conclusion , these depictions show the feminist perspective that women are the protectors and only women can help the environment. We must break these stereotypes and challenge them by adding positive roles of men and the environement.
Works cited
Nim's Island. Dir. Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. By Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Paula Mazur, and Joseph Kwong. Prod. Paula Mazur. Perf. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler. 20th Century Fox, 2008.
Perez, Nina. "Ecofeminism." University Of Central Florida, Orlando. 5 Apr. 2010. Lecture.
week 7 act blog
Jessiel Gerena
Nina Perez
WST 3015
18 April 2010
Activism 7
Activism : This week has been very busy for me in terms of school and has hampered on my efforts to edit the letter . As I previously mentioned it is crucial that I send these letters out as soon as possible. This letters detail the importance of why we are lobbying for this holiday . As I havent been able to work with the letter much I have been promoting the petition we now have cirulating online. This petition is great to get the general public involved and is easy to gain support through announcing it through the facebook page.
Reflection: When given this task at the beginning I felt that we wouldn’t be able to do this or that it was too ambitious an idea. Then as the project went on I came to realize that”no act is too smalll “. That Activism is a chain , its”contagious “ One voice can’t do it alone but when that voice talks to someone and that(seely). someone talks to someone you have a chain reaction and that’s how change happens. This remind me of the very person we are trying to honor in this holiday Alice Paul . The womens movement or just about any social movement didn’t start with large group of people calling for change overnight it was the spread of the message about these injustices that led to such thing as womens suffrage and civils rights for African Americans.
Reciprocity ;
The knowledge obtained by this facebook group and the petition Is essential. The signers of the petition is receiving education on the womens movement just by reading the petition whether they sign it or not . They will bring awareness to the simple fact that no single woman has a national holiday commerating them.This knowledge will then spread like wildfire because they get the word and keep spreading it. This will help our service learning partner Nina Perez through community outreach and will build that base to further advance this creation of the holiday.
Works cited
Seely, Megan. Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist. New York: New York UP, 2007. 16-17. Print.
Nina Perez
WST 3015
18 April 2010
Activism 7
Activism : This week has been very busy for me in terms of school and has hampered on my efforts to edit the letter . As I previously mentioned it is crucial that I send these letters out as soon as possible. This letters detail the importance of why we are lobbying for this holiday . As I havent been able to work with the letter much I have been promoting the petition we now have cirulating online. This petition is great to get the general public involved and is easy to gain support through announcing it through the facebook page.
Reflection: When given this task at the beginning I felt that we wouldn’t be able to do this or that it was too ambitious an idea. Then as the project went on I came to realize that”no act is too smalll “. That Activism is a chain , its”contagious “ One voice can’t do it alone but when that voice talks to someone and that(seely). someone talks to someone you have a chain reaction and that’s how change happens. This remind me of the very person we are trying to honor in this holiday Alice Paul . The womens movement or just about any social movement didn’t start with large group of people calling for change overnight it was the spread of the message about these injustices that led to such thing as womens suffrage and civils rights for African Americans.
Reciprocity ;
The knowledge obtained by this facebook group and the petition Is essential. The signers of the petition is receiving education on the womens movement just by reading the petition whether they sign it or not . They will bring awareness to the simple fact that no single woman has a national holiday commerating them.This knowledge will then spread like wildfire because they get the word and keep spreading it. This will help our service learning partner Nina Perez through community outreach and will build that base to further advance this creation of the holiday.
Works cited
Seely, Megan. Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist. New York: New York UP, 2007. 16-17. Print.
Apr 5, 2010
Baghdad Burning
Jessiel Gerena
WST 3015
Nina Perez
April 5th 2010
Baghdad Burning: US invasion of feminism.
Baghdad Burning is a blog about an young iraqi women who blogs about the war in Iraq. Her blog is a political and educational personal narrative of the war in Iraq.I believe that she writes to educate the readers about the realities of Islamic society treatment of women, the political is her critque of the war and militarization of iraq and she tells the story through her eyes. The author decribes what life was like before and after the United States invaded Iraq. She has several blogposts that talk about several subjects, including the normality of the noise of armed conflict, the impact of security for women during war times, a description of her life , economic impact of war and the radicalization of Islam and the treatment of women.
We as a militarized country fail to recognize the effects war on the culture and the effects of the destructment of the land. In Baghdad Burning she describes the negative effects of war and a personal way of showing the realities of war. In her entry Sammarra Burning she describes how “It’s like a nightmare within a nightmare”. The piling of bodies and constant firiing of weapons has made war a commonality and the norm.
In writing this blog Riverbend educates the general public about myths that Islam towards women and how some use Islamic law and misinterpet it . In her blog discussed in class she explains how some clerics radicalize islam and use it to explain their opression towards women. uses of Muslim radicals that take Sharia and use that to justify their oppression on women. Sharia is Islamic law,whether from the Quran or quotes from the Prophet “. The problem is when clerics take a personal interpretation of islamic law . They use this for their hidden agenda and start issuing decrees such as “pleasure marriage’ which is a temporary marriage for the sole purpose of sex. This marriage forces women to marry a man and the man pays for his pleasure marriage and is easily annulled when done. Using Sharia , Men have taken the rights and justifying it by religious means.
Riverbend uses this blog to explain the opression of women by islam cleric. This blog contradicts the myths that we have that constructed as a western society that islamic is repressive to women. Riverbend uses her blog as an account on this subject in these blogs more then other she uses others account to show how liberal and acceptiing islam is . She accounts her personal success and shows how Iraq once was a propserous nation for women.
Works cited
Riverbend. "Sharia Law." Weblog post. Baghdadburning.blogspot.com. Web.
WST 3015
Nina Perez
April 5th 2010
Baghdad Burning: US invasion of feminism.
Baghdad Burning is a blog about an young iraqi women who blogs about the war in Iraq. Her blog is a political and educational personal narrative of the war in Iraq.I believe that she writes to educate the readers about the realities of Islamic society treatment of women, the political is her critque of the war and militarization of iraq and she tells the story through her eyes. The author decribes what life was like before and after the United States invaded Iraq. She has several blogposts that talk about several subjects, including the normality of the noise of armed conflict, the impact of security for women during war times, a description of her life , economic impact of war and the radicalization of Islam and the treatment of women.
We as a militarized country fail to recognize the effects war on the culture and the effects of the destructment of the land. In Baghdad Burning she describes the negative effects of war and a personal way of showing the realities of war. In her entry Sammarra Burning she describes how “It’s like a nightmare within a nightmare”. The piling of bodies and constant firiing of weapons has made war a commonality and the norm.
In writing this blog Riverbend educates the general public about myths that Islam towards women and how some use Islamic law and misinterpet it . In her blog discussed in class she explains how some clerics radicalize islam and use it to explain their opression towards women. uses of Muslim radicals that take Sharia and use that to justify their oppression on women. Sharia is Islamic law,whether from the Quran or quotes from the Prophet “. The problem is when clerics take a personal interpretation of islamic law . They use this for their hidden agenda and start issuing decrees such as “pleasure marriage’ which is a temporary marriage for the sole purpose of sex. This marriage forces women to marry a man and the man pays for his pleasure marriage and is easily annulled when done. Using Sharia , Men have taken the rights and justifying it by religious means.
Riverbend uses this blog to explain the opression of women by islam cleric. This blog contradicts the myths that we have that constructed as a western society that islamic is repressive to women. Riverbend uses her blog as an account on this subject in these blogs more then other she uses others account to show how liberal and acceptiing islam is . She accounts her personal success and shows how Iraq once was a propserous nation for women.
Works cited
Riverbend. "Sharia Law." Weblog post. Baghdadburning.blogspot.com. Web.
Apr 3, 2010
act blog week 6
Jessiel Gerena
Nina Perez
WST 3015
2 April 2010
Activism Log 6
Activism : This week was fast paced after a couple of slow weeks for our group. This week we met with our service learning partner Nina Perez and mapped out a plan on how we are going to promote and reach out to everyone. We finally got our letter that will be mailed out to feminist organizations , U.S congressmen and congresswomen, and women studys programs across the country. This will be the marketing campaign of gaining support and hopefully making it that much more a reality to having a National Womens Holiday. My task has been to edit and mail the letters to different representatives and political organizations.
Reflection:
This week I feel that we are left with such a giangantic and historic task in creating this federal holiday. This social movement we are creating must keep the motivation for the need for a national holiday recognizing the struggles of women . This reminds of the lashback we got on our facebook group . We have had some great initial reaction with it reaching over 700 fans with in a couple weeks. We had some individuals who didn’t quiete understand our purpose and didn’t feel the need to have a national women’s holiday recognizing the struggle. We originally just had feminist quotes and it turned off many of the fans of the group. We were reminded to stay focused on the task and that our job was to educate and to “build our reputations in terms of scholarly work and academic rigor.”(Kirk).
Reciprocity:
Our work is creating the foundation to get a National Womens Holiday recognizing the struggles of women obtaining rights and steps toward equality. Our service learning partner Nina Perez wanted to do this for quite some time . This has helped her create a foundation that can be continued in order to realize the goal of having a National Womens Holiday. As a political science student , the letters that will be going out soon are crucial to gain the support we need in the US Congress. Politicians like nothing more then to have their name attached to such historic and monumental legislation. Politicians can use this Holiday as a way to make their stamp in US history.
Works Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.
Nina Perez
WST 3015
2 April 2010
Activism Log 6
Activism : This week was fast paced after a couple of slow weeks for our group. This week we met with our service learning partner Nina Perez and mapped out a plan on how we are going to promote and reach out to everyone. We finally got our letter that will be mailed out to feminist organizations , U.S congressmen and congresswomen, and women studys programs across the country. This will be the marketing campaign of gaining support and hopefully making it that much more a reality to having a National Womens Holiday. My task has been to edit and mail the letters to different representatives and political organizations.
Reflection:
This week I feel that we are left with such a giangantic and historic task in creating this federal holiday. This social movement we are creating must keep the motivation for the need for a national holiday recognizing the struggles of women . This reminds of the lashback we got on our facebook group . We have had some great initial reaction with it reaching over 700 fans with in a couple weeks. We had some individuals who didn’t quiete understand our purpose and didn’t feel the need to have a national women’s holiday recognizing the struggle. We originally just had feminist quotes and it turned off many of the fans of the group. We were reminded to stay focused on the task and that our job was to educate and to “build our reputations in terms of scholarly work and academic rigor.”(Kirk).
Reciprocity:
Our work is creating the foundation to get a National Womens Holiday recognizing the struggles of women obtaining rights and steps toward equality. Our service learning partner Nina Perez wanted to do this for quite some time . This has helped her create a foundation that can be continued in order to realize the goal of having a National Womens Holiday. As a political science student , the letters that will be going out soon are crucial to gain the support we need in the US Congress. Politicians like nothing more then to have their name attached to such historic and monumental legislation. Politicians can use this Holiday as a way to make their stamp in US history.
Works Cited
Kirk, Gwyn, and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2010. Print.
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