Nubia Celis-Etienne

My name is Nubia Celis-Etienne and I am currently attending 8th grade at LREI, Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School, in New York City. The social justice topic my group, Jane, Katie, Kate, Kellin, and I, are focusing and dealing with is the portrayal of women in social media. We are all really passionate about this topic, and I believe that the way people see women in the media, especially in today's time, is either as weak and incapable, edited with Photoshop, or over sexualized and. This topic relates to girls like me, especially in my age group, because we grow up seeing these impossible standards of perfection in the media and many strive to achieve those looks and end up being scarred knowing they can never look like those enhanced models on TV. With my group, we strive to do as much as we can to show the world and those girls like us that perfection is an illusion. We want to show everyone what a real women looks like, without any retouching or photoshopping.