Activism Blog Reflection #1

The purpose of my group’s activism project is to create a women’s national holiday. We would like the world to recognize the significant roles that women have played in making history and in pursuing meaningful ways to equality. During our first couple of meetings, our team established norms and goals. Our norms, in regards to communication, would be through email and through face to face discussion in order to address current issues.

Our goals were also established during our first couple of meetings. Various group members are working on different parts of our activism project in order to expand this message of creating a women’s national holiday. From contacting major organizations, to researching the steps in creating a national holiday and starting a face book page for awareness are some of the goals that have been established and are currently in progress. As of now, we have approximately 550 fans following our face book page which has been awesome. Through this face book page our project and message is spreading faster than ever. Yet, with this quick spread of awareness, our group has had to come across many people, in particular men, who do not seem very polite about our message. Our group has managed to stop certain people from posting inappropriate messages while at the same time, addressing those people from an academic point of view why it is we are spreading such a message. We will continue to address and clear any misunderstandings about our project, while at the same time providing meaningful information that will further provide our fans and others the opportunity to gain a more focused meaning behind our goal.