Hi all!
So I'm very excited about my blog post this week that I'm actually going to use it as a show-and-tell during class tomorrow. I think it ties in really well with the topic of "women's sexuality" that we've been covering in discussion, especially as to how we foster ideas about sexuality in young, adolescent girls (and boys too, I guess).
This is a link to the website of an amazing organization, The UnSlut Project. Emily Lindin, the woman who founded it, began the project when she was going through her old things and discovered her diaries from middle school, when she was considered the "school slut." She was inspired not only by her own past, but also by the stories she heard in the news of girls taking their own lives because of "slut-shaming." I really suggest going to the site, she has published copies of all her diary entries, and they're heartbreaking to read. Heartbreaking because I'm sure every woman has had the same feelings of embarrassment and depression she had. What she's doing is really inspiring, and I think it's great she's empowering young girls to assert their sexuality in confidence. (Power of the erotic, anybody?) The most important question she asks is: Define "slut." What is a "slut" anyway? It really makes you think. And just this past August, Emily and her organization raised enough money to put into production a documentary about the effects of slut-shaming on young girls. Sounds like good material for future Women and Gender Studies classes to me!
Check it out, really.
Or don't, cause I guess I'm forcing you all to look at it tomorrow anyway.
http://www.unslutproject.com
I think this an extremely inspiring not to mention important subject as it is very relevant within today's society. Recently, I have noticed a disturbing trend that's beginning to emerge: young girls are being "slut-shammed" for being raped. I read an article not too long ago (and I think someone may have even written a blog about it at some point), but a young girl who was raped was not only cyber-bulied, but her family was eventually run out of their town. I think this is a sickening phenomenon and I am so thankful that projects such as this one not only exist, but are also emerging to combat such a repulsive trend.
ReplyDeleteThis is super awesome!
ReplyDeleteI think that in the In-Miley-Cyrus's-Booty era, it is interesting to see with the identity who gives and why it is given. It's unheard of to call Usher or Robin Thicke for promoting/allowing/doing suggestive things.
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