Case study: Everyday Sexism

1) The Everyday Sexism project was launched in inspiration to recent events in her life that had happened 18 months prior to her TED Talk. She also wanted to highlight as the project had stated, the everyday sexism in people's lives. In this case it wouldn't be specific to gender so anyone could spread their stories about the sexism that they had faced. 

2) This would relate to post-feminism because this site can highlight not only the negative stories but she has also mentioned the positive stories in which the sexism was put against. With the stories of positive change on people's perspective on feminism, it can be argued that we are in a post-feminism society since feminism isn't entirely required looking at how the positive stories combat sexism. However it can also be argued that we still aren't in a post-feminism society because sexist remarks are still present and although social media has empowered many positive campaigns, it has also made it easy for discrimination to occur. 

3) It can be argued that because of how media constructs a reality for an audience to believe in as accurate as a main inspiration for the Everyday Sexism project since it would include a society that may be seen as prejudice towards women. With the media such as Film and TV having very few strong female protagonists, this has therefore led to the prejudice in how a male audience would react with jokes that may be considered sexist to the politically correct audience. Therefore Everyday Sexism was created to try and combat the damsel in distress and instead highlight the issue that sexism is and the negative effects that it has. 

4) McRobbie's work on empowering women is present in the Everyday Sexism project with the mention of the positive stories that would combat the stereotype of women being seen as weak. Instead these stories present the women as capable of taking on the discrimination and therefore this would subvert the sexism that is present towards the discrimination towards women.

Media Magazine: The fourth wave?

1) Networked Feminism is referring to the fourth wave of feminism. This would be the use of social media, and the internet to try and make their campaigns more accessible. In this case campaigns would go throughout the internet as they try and spread their message of equality. This would try and tackle the social issues that women face in the modern age and use social media to highlight or try and raise awareness for so that more people know of the difficulties and discrimination that women have to face.  

2) The four waves of feminism are the waves in which feminists would try and protest about their lack of equality in various methods. One of these methods were highlighted was the networked feminism. In this case it would show how feminist are using social media to spread the word of equality in the  media by going through campaigns such as Everyday Sexism which had people anonymously talk about their stories of sexist experiences.

3) In my opinion I think that the fourth wave of feminism is a welcome wave. This would be because it could help feminists with their messages on how they would spread their messages in regards to what problems are currently being faced by women in everyday life. This would then help them to bring awareness to them and make sure a resolution can be made. 

Post-colonialism: final blog tasks

1) Alvarado: Four representations of the black community.
Fanon: "Putting on the white mask"
Said: The East (inferior) and the West (superior) representations.

2) It would offer both. It would offer a positive representation of British Muslims because they would be presented as faithful to their religion as well as being seen as wearing modern clothing rather than the robes that they may usually expect them to wear. As well as that there is also the fact that there is the confrontation between the Police Officer and Yasmin as she would calmly resolve the situation. However there is some negative representations of British Muslims because of the character of Yasmin. She is seen as negatively representing British Muslims because of the fact that she would change her appearance to appear culturally acceptable. 

3) Alvarado: Gone Too Far - Humour

Marvel's Luke Cage - Dangerous

 Unicef Advert - Pitied 

Post-colonialism

1) Film:
Kindulthood
Anuvahood
Bullet Boy
Star Trek
Ill Manors

TV:
Dr Who
Top Boy
Luther
55 Degrees North
Goodness Gracious Me

Online-only productions:
3 Non-Blondes
The Ryan Sisters
All About The Mckenzies 
Venus Vs Mars

2) I believe that Destiny's films do agree with both Alverado and Fanon's theories. This is because in both clips the representation of black people is presented by stereotypical and does have connotations of a negative portrayal. For example, in the trailer for 'Gone Too Far' we see the long lost brother come out of the car wearing scruffy clothes and is generally a pure example of an African stereotype- someone who wears poor clothing etc. In addition, the use of the accent that the character speaks in, is used for more comedic purposes which fits in with Alverado's theory. In, 'Tight Jeans', it is more ambiguous in terms of black representation. This is because the clip seemed to be subverting the stereotype as the characters aren't the typical African males. It is more to do with what they say and their ideologies that fit in with the theorists. For example, exotic factor is presented during Marcus's speech about how black people were enslaves, as he begins talking about the beauty of Africa etc.