At 11:30 on February sixth, my social justice group and I walked into the lobby of the Aerie design office on 37th street. After signing in, Abbey Ruggiero, the kind lady in which I was able to schedule the interview with, came downstairs on the elevator to pick us up. We take the elevator three…
My social justice group and I were so lucky and honored to be given the chance to interview Ms. Drew Barrymore. Even though the interview was in a phone call instead of a FaceTime or in person, the call was very informative and overall a really great experience. We started off the interview with Lily’s…
For our fourth fieldwork, Kiki had arranged for us to interview with plus-sized model for Jennie Runk. Jennie Runk began modeling when she was 14. She was discovered at a show, and she was the only plus sized model in the room. “I was a size 14 in a room filled of size 0s and…
My group’s first field work was watching a movie called Miss Representation. The film was about all the types of ways women are misrepresented in the media in this day and age. When women become big figures in politics, a lot of times they tend to focus on how she presents herself – not as in…
On Thursday, December 1st, my Social Justice group and I went to the Taylor Swift Experience, a Grammy museum in the South Street Seaport. We had decided to go to this museum because Taylor Swift is a very big female in the media today; the press is always writing about her, making up rumors, and she…
We went to the Paley Center for a fieldwork on November 28th, 2016. Once we went upstairs, a woman named Rebecca led us into a small theater. Once seated (in the front row), Rebecca asked us on our opinion on how women are portrayed in the media. The rest of the fieldwork was led…
