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.
Apr 14, 2010
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.
act blog week 3
Jessiel Gerena
WSt 3015
Nina Perez
Week3
Activism: This week we got a petition finished for our facebook group . I didn’t do this petition but did help spread the news. Getting this petition is crucial as is will help legitimize for polticial suppport. In politics the best way for a poltician to get behind a legislation is to show theirs public support for it .A policitician wants to support popular legislation to be recognize in its legacy.
Reflection: In every modern movement we see a turn to be a people’s movement . the best way to feel empowered is a grassroots movement because it gives you the power to put all the energy you want to in it. “We can be individuals ,who also must find a common ground from which to speak collectively . We can share our stories,lead by example and be actvist in our daily lives .This is what it menas to fight like a girl” (Seely). Like Alice Paul before us we must fight a hard fight in order to get our national holiday recognized it wont be easy. We have seen this the amount of dropoff from the facebook group number to our petition numbers its defintately lower.
Reciprocity: This is great for politicians . Who ever sponsors this legisalition,can go to the floor of congress and say they have 1,000 signers or more from US citizens supporting this legislation, Any politiciancan then use these numbers to say how they should support the will of the people and that by supporting this they are supporting will of the people. They can also use this petition to educate the legislature on who is Alice Paul and what this holiday would recognzie .Alot of times congress people would go to congress without knowledge of what a bill is about or what it will do .
Works Cited
Seely, Megan. "Fight like A Girl." Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist. New York: New York UP, 2007. 16. Print.
WSt 3015
Nina Perez
Week3
Activism: This week we got a petition finished for our facebook group . I didn’t do this petition but did help spread the news. Getting this petition is crucial as is will help legitimize for polticial suppport. In politics the best way for a poltician to get behind a legislation is to show theirs public support for it .A policitician wants to support popular legislation to be recognize in its legacy.
Reflection: In every modern movement we see a turn to be a people’s movement . the best way to feel empowered is a grassroots movement because it gives you the power to put all the energy you want to in it. “We can be individuals ,who also must find a common ground from which to speak collectively . We can share our stories,lead by example and be actvist in our daily lives .This is what it menas to fight like a girl” (Seely). Like Alice Paul before us we must fight a hard fight in order to get our national holiday recognized it wont be easy. We have seen this the amount of dropoff from the facebook group number to our petition numbers its defintately lower.
Reciprocity: This is great for politicians . Who ever sponsors this legisalition,can go to the floor of congress and say they have 1,000 signers or more from US citizens supporting this legislation, Any politiciancan then use these numbers to say how they should support the will of the people and that by supporting this they are supporting will of the people. They can also use this petition to educate the legislature on who is Alice Paul and what this holiday would recognzie .Alot of times congress people would go to congress without knowledge of what a bill is about or what it will do .
Works Cited
Seely, Megan. "Fight like A Girl." Fight like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist. New York: New York UP, 2007. 16. Print.
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