1. Our second meeting was a great success. We chose a name, route and time for our event. The title of the event will read-UCF Women’s Studies presents the first ever Trick Your Feet 5k to benefit the Young Women Leadership Program. The route is a 5k run from Lake Claire and back and it will start at around 2pm and be done and cleaned up by 5pm. This week I found someone who can make the shirts. They also offered to help me design the logo. I will be in touch with them this week to finalize the design and get a quote. Our next meeting will be held next Tuesday, October 26, and I will bring the different design options to be voted on. Also, by then I will have an estimate for the shirt prices based on the approximate 500 count we discussed in our last meeting.
2. Our activism project relates to what we are currently learning in class because it will help empower young girls and women to take charge and have a voice in the community. By building awareness of women’s studies and educating the community about the important issues that they might not even realize they are facing on a day to day basis, we can help women stand up for themselves. This week we focused on the lack of voice women have in the medical decisions made about their bodies. The patriarchal system that governs the medical world doesn’t allow women the space necessary to voice their opinions. This is something that needs to be changed and hopefully our event and the awareness it raises will be a stepping stone in the right direction.
3. I am so excited to get started on the logo. I am going to be in contact with my friend this week to discuss my concepts and he is going to help create them. I have a lot of ideas and I hope I can harness all of them into one great product. I am looking forward to the next meeting because a lot will be finalized.
Good work, continue to make explicit connections to the texts.
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