Activism Log 8

Rachel Collins

Jeannina Perez

WST3015

17 April 2010

Activism:

This week, I'm done sending out the letters, and main concentrating on getting the petition to as many people as possible. I know Kelly got some responses from places, but I haven't heard anything from any of mine. In our last meeting with Nina, we talked about what would happen after the first round of letter sending, and we decided that we would send another round of letters, this time talking about the petition and sharing the url of the online version. I'm still sending the petition to everyone on the facebook page almost every day, and we've got a fair amount so far, but a long way to go.

Reflection:

This week in class we talked about girl studies, and especially on the effect of media and pop culture on girls, while reading the first two volumes of the Gaia Girls books series, which connects to both eco feminism and girl studies ( Perez 4/14/10). The development of the next generation is directly related to the aims of our project. A major result of having a holiday honoring Alice Paul is that it would provide the impetus for educational institutions to focus, even for a day, on the history of Paul and the women's movement as a whole. As it is, these facts are almost wholly ignored. To not have our public schools impart this information to their students is to have whole generations of girls grow up with very few and very insufficient female role models and historical figures to look back to.

Reciprocity:

After sending all my emails, I'm finding that even many of the programs who had email addresses don't exist, as my emails have been sent back to me with a "delivery failed" notification attached. It's discouraging, but I'm just focusing on the petition and on doing everything else that needs to be done.