International Women's Day
International Women's Day - has turned into a week at King Hall. But, posters of some prominent women have been defamed. Still happens in law school. weird - maybe it's b/c it feels like high school, so we revert back. I know someone drew something like whiskers on a poster of Oprah Winfrey's - at first I actually found that funny. When I saw the poster, I thought twice about if that is a woman I look up to. But, knowing someone put time and effort into making that poster makes someone defaming it just suck.
Story surrounding this day:
Hundreds of Bangladeshi men have taken part in a rally in the capital Dhaka to denounce acid attacks and other violence against women.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4329733.stm
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On Sunday went to South Asian Sister's Day of Dialog. Helped lead a discussion on Body Image. I'm just glad the other facilitator was there b/c there were so many silences, and I didn't know what to say. Good thing she's a psychologist and is used to asking provocative questions.
It was a great discussion, though. One of the women is pretty androgynous - she honestly looked like a young boy. I talk about how our society stratifies the looks of men and women in order to put them into categories/boxes, for many purposes I suppose; but really, if we all didn't do our eyebrows, shave, etc...we would look like pretty similar human beings - well, I guess that depends on the ethnicity; but I think so. So, this was way cool to actually have an open discussion with someone who is actually defying the push for the separate spheres - and she's south asian on top of that!
And, of course we talked about hair - hair, hair, hair. This is pretty unique to south asian/persian women. In other women's gatherings where I've talked about body image, this really isn't talked about too much - it's usually about weight and breasts. But, we could finally just talk about what we know is unique to all of us. It was cool.
And us shorties in the group learned about the struggles of the tallies to cope with their shorter family members and just people in general. How they try to subdue their nature in order to appear not as strong b/c their height and voice, etc. make them appear, apparently, to others as "amazon women." Oh...so goes the stereotypes created by the main-stream. It's what we're all battling against and with.
Story surrounding this day:
Hundreds of Bangladeshi men have taken part in a rally in the capital Dhaka to denounce acid attacks and other violence against women.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4329733.stm
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On Sunday went to South Asian Sister's Day of Dialog. Helped lead a discussion on Body Image. I'm just glad the other facilitator was there b/c there were so many silences, and I didn't know what to say. Good thing she's a psychologist and is used to asking provocative questions.
It was a great discussion, though. One of the women is pretty androgynous - she honestly looked like a young boy. I talk about how our society stratifies the looks of men and women in order to put them into categories/boxes, for many purposes I suppose; but really, if we all didn't do our eyebrows, shave, etc...we would look like pretty similar human beings - well, I guess that depends on the ethnicity; but I think so. So, this was way cool to actually have an open discussion with someone who is actually defying the push for the separate spheres - and she's south asian on top of that!
And, of course we talked about hair - hair, hair, hair. This is pretty unique to south asian/persian women. In other women's gatherings where I've talked about body image, this really isn't talked about too much - it's usually about weight and breasts. But, we could finally just talk about what we know is unique to all of us. It was cool.
And us shorties in the group learned about the struggles of the tallies to cope with their shorter family members and just people in general. How they try to subdue their nature in order to appear not as strong b/c their height and voice, etc. make them appear, apparently, to others as "amazon women." Oh...so goes the stereotypes created by the main-stream. It's what we're all battling against and with.