Recently, my group and I got the amazing opportunity to interview Drew Barrymore. Drew Barrymore is a very well known actress who has been in the spotlight for almost her entire life. We could not interview her in person, so we spoke with her over the phone. Drew was very informative and detailed in her…
For our fourth fieldwork, we scheduled an interview with Jennie Runk, who is a plus sized model, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community. At the time she started modeling, she was a size ten or twelve. When she was discovered, she was given the option to lose or gain weight to become…
Hidden Figures is about three African American women who work at NASA as mathematicians and how they fight for equal rights in the workplace. Since they are both women and African American, they face a lot of discrimination such as passive comments, people not wanting to touch objects that they, in particular, have used, and…
For our fourth fieldwork, my group saw Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures is about three African American women who work at NASA as mathematicians and how they fight for equal rights in the workplace. Since they are both women and African American, they face a lot of discrimination such as passive comments, people not wanting to…
This fieldwork may be a bit confusing as to why we would go, but we had a very good reason. Taylor swift has been a huge figure in the media and is also a woman. She is well known for being a country singer and later switching to the pop genre. But she is also…
As our second fieldwork, the Women in the Media group contacted and scheduled a trip to the Paley Center For Media. Since our group is about the portrayal of women in the media, we thought this would be a great place to visit. We first called and contacted an official that worked at the center…
For my first social justice fieldwork, my group watched a movie called Miss Representation. I personally thought this movie was amazing and incredibly informing. It really opened my eyes on how hyper-sexualized women are in our society. I think it’s disgusting how we are constantly portrayed as sex objects, just a pretty face, stupid, and…
