Service Learning Log 4

Adam Scott Green
March 3, 2009
Service Learning Log

Activism
I found a very cool website that has all the Women's Studies departments from colleges and universities in America. This takes the guest work out of most of the researching we were tasked to do. Now that we have a conclusive mailing list. We can re- examine our letter and begin to send out materials advertising our campaign for a federal holiday recognizing women's history. Now we can start working on organizations. I think that we should begin making a mailing list of feminist organizations in Florida or start finding mailing addresses of famous feminists. It is actually time to begin dialogue with other activsts and start making things happen for this project. I think I may even make a pink art submission of a bra about this campaign. Seely defines activism as deciding what action to take where to hold the action, and making the action visual" (Seely 20). I think its time to take this activism project to the next level.
Reflection
Recently in class, we have discussed the end of victimhood. In the words of Aurora Levins Morales, "Among the topics we've ranged over in our hours of conversation that one that grabs my attention is the need and obligation to leave victimhood behind" (Morales 284), In a way, this project is a way of living a perception of suffragists as victims behind. The Mary Poppins, cover- up the gruesome reality culture we live in, has ignored the agency of suffragists. We like to think that women marched a couple times, and the government decided to give women the right to vote. In particular, ALice Paul was a political prisoner, who marched and fought for suffrage while repressed in a de jure sexist country. Suffragist were not victims or powerless. They were powerful, influential, and courageous people that we must never forget.
Reciprocity
The more we work on this project, I am better understanding the scope of the suffrage movement. I am becoming more sensitive to perspectives of women.

Works Cited
Morales, Aurora Levins. "Radical Pleasure: Sex and the End of Victimhood." Women's Lives Multicultural Perspectives. 5th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 283-28
Seely, Megan. Fight Like a Girl. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Print.