Hello people of the world and beyond! My name is Amy Cruz, new Gender+Women’s Studies Major! I want to tell you about my Activist project for the wonderful class, Feminist Activism. Here’s some background: I have anxiety and depression. It is hard to me to speak out or speak up, let alone get out of bed sometimes. Taking part in Activism is hard for me.
When coming up with an idea for my activist project I thought about what kinds of ideas and issues I am passionate about. Since we are in the age of technology I knew that I wanted to do a social media based project. I decided to focus on the image(s) of black women presented in popular media.
I did my activism project based on an election that was taking place at UMBC. I was inspired because of the recent 2016 election and how women are represented in politics. In America women make up majority of the country’s population, they earn almost 60 percent of undergraduate degrees, and 60 percent of all master’s degrees, they earn 47 percent of all law degrees, and 48 percent of all medical degrees, they earn more than 44 percent of master’s degrees in business and management, including 37 percent of MBAs, and they are 47 percent of the U.S. labor force, and 59 percent of the college-educated, entry-level workforce. But yet Women today hold only 18.5 percent of congressional seats, and they are just 20 percent of U.S. senators, they hold only 24.2 percent of state legislature seats, they are only 10 percent of governors, only Continue reading
Studies in Feminist Activism 