10th November:
This week is endometriosis week! While it was initially planned for the week of 3rd November, we realised that it wasn't a full week and thursday and friday we off days, therefore we changed it to this week. In order to raise awareness about serious health disease it is we have been posting a fact everyday on the daily bulletin, we will also be conducting 2 flash mobs/skits (1 in the courtyard and 1 in the canteen area) to directly contact the target audience. We have already performed the skit in the courtyard and while we were performing the main line that started off the skit was “MY VAGINA HURTS”, and while this statement is meant to capture attention it also got a fair amount of laughter. Throughout the performance there were a couple of insensitive comments made by the audience such as “she’s pregnant!”, and the audience’s reaction to our skit clearly mirrored the taboo associated with menstruation and puberty. While the skit was effective and it led to several people asking about the disease and how to get checked, the audiences’ first hand response to it was quite stereotypical. Watching the skit being performed and viewing the audience’s response with it made me realise that in order to get equal rights for women, much more needs to be done than simply making laws as entire mindsets need to be altered to cause sustainable change. As a Community Action we aim to openly talk about issues regarding gender, in order to encourage others to feel free to talk about it and stop viewing it as a “provocative” topic.
Link for flash-mob/skit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpblAP8XYH4
The stop motion was initially supposed to be ready now however it isn't as we tried filming it in school however it didn't really work out due to the bad lighting. Mariana and I then concluded that the stop motion had to be done elsewhere, and as i have previous experience with making stop motions I have been making the stop motion. And due to the high school play being put up soon, which means long rehearsals, its hard to manage my time and devote a fair amount of time to the stop motion in order to make it effective and aesthetically pleasing. Since the stop motion will not be done for endometriosis week, the plan for sharing the video is to upload it to Youtube and show it in PSE classes or have it as a re-boot of the campaign in endometriosis month (march).
This week is endometriosis week! While it was initially planned for the week of 3rd November, we realised that it wasn't a full week and thursday and friday we off days, therefore we changed it to this week. In order to raise awareness about serious health disease it is we have been posting a fact everyday on the daily bulletin, we will also be conducting 2 flash mobs/skits (1 in the courtyard and 1 in the canteen area) to directly contact the target audience. We have already performed the skit in the courtyard and while we were performing the main line that started off the skit was “MY VAGINA HURTS”, and while this statement is meant to capture attention it also got a fair amount of laughter. Throughout the performance there were a couple of insensitive comments made by the audience such as “she’s pregnant!”, and the audience’s reaction to our skit clearly mirrored the taboo associated with menstruation and puberty. While the skit was effective and it led to several people asking about the disease and how to get checked, the audiences’ first hand response to it was quite stereotypical. Watching the skit being performed and viewing the audience’s response with it made me realise that in order to get equal rights for women, much more needs to be done than simply making laws as entire mindsets need to be altered to cause sustainable change. As a Community Action we aim to openly talk about issues regarding gender, in order to encourage others to feel free to talk about it and stop viewing it as a “provocative” topic.
Link for flash-mob/skit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpblAP8XYH4
The stop motion was initially supposed to be ready now however it isn't as we tried filming it in school however it didn't really work out due to the bad lighting. Mariana and I then concluded that the stop motion had to be done elsewhere, and as i have previous experience with making stop motions I have been making the stop motion. And due to the high school play being put up soon, which means long rehearsals, its hard to manage my time and devote a fair amount of time to the stop motion in order to make it effective and aesthetically pleasing. Since the stop motion will not be done for endometriosis week, the plan for sharing the video is to upload it to Youtube and show it in PSE classes or have it as a re-boot of the campaign in endometriosis month (march).