Name: Olivia Basile

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Body Image and Social Media

Date of Fieldwork: February 18, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):The Paley Center for Media.

Type of Fieldwork: Other

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Body image and Social media, Sexual Harassment, and Abortion laws groups all went to the Paley Center for media to take one of the classes there. We were in a theater room where we talked about the media and women. We talked about how women in media are sexualized and objectified.

She showed us videos of positive and negative images in the media for women. Such as some music videos with Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears. We watched an ad where first teens are asked to “run like a girl” and “throw like a girl.” The teens would try and run with there legs kicking on the side and skiping. Then they asked kids to do it and they ran fast, threw hard, and showed how there shouldn’t be a negitive stereotype on girls. Overall it was a really great and inspiring experience.