https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx en-us 2021-04-09 03:20:47 UTC 2024-11-18 01:09:33 UTC hello@padlet.com canadasohi https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402876958 2021-04-10 17:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402876958 canadasohi https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402878845 From this course, I've learned many different topics and notions about girlhoods and girls media under American media culture to know how girls consume different media texts, and how savvy media producers and culture creators respond to the girl demographic, including intersectionality, tomboys (youth femininities and masculinities), bedroom culture, girls’ fandom, girls as cultural producers (Rookie magazine & Riot grrrl zines), girl social media stars and girls’ media activism. From all the readings and discussions, there are several ideas challenged my previous perspectives. From McRobbie and Garber's article, Girls and Subcultures, I realized how girls are be defined and set as subordinate that girls are pushed to the margins of social activity by male dominance which leads to women's domestic orientation (2006). Hence, the culture of bedroom appears when girls spent most of the time inside the house; this concept fills a gap in my understanding of the state of women in a patriarchal society. In addition, as a Chinese girl who studies abroad, it's painful to accept the truth that there are many racial systems, colour status, etc. restrictions among girls. Although I have rarely encountered incidents of discrimination or Asian hate on myself in real life or on the Internet, the injustice experienced by black women from Aria Halliday's article, Twerk sumn! (2020): theorizing Black girl epistemology in the body, makes me angry as well. The fact of the different definitions of twerking on white girls and on black girls on the Internet (black girls' twerking usually relates to sexual provocation and thrusting) makes me know that girls who with other identities would need to put more efforts to live the relative same life as white girls under the American media culture.]]> 2021-04-10 17:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402878845 canadasohi https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402879095 Throughout the course, I found the speech, What is "intersectionality?" by Crenshaw and the discussion about Tavi Gevinson's Rookie magazine from Mejia's Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era inspired me the most. The concept of intersectionality from Crenshaw's speech (2016) tells me that it is the most important element in girls' media studies because the intersectional approach shows the way that people's social identities can overlap, creating compounding experiences of discrimination. Also, the story about Gevinson's Rookie Magazine impressed me how she could build a "community" for different girls to share their voices and makes them feel empowered at a young age, which gives me a lot of energy as well (Mejia, 2018). 

After learning this course, there are various concepts that help me in my further media consumption and production practices. First of all,  the concept of intersectionality can make have a more critical mind when looking at the news through analysis of the identity markers (e.g. “woman” and “black”). Because I know the identities like race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, etc. do not exist independently of each other, and that each informs the others, often creating a complex convergence of oppression. Additionally, according to bedroom culture, black women's experience about twerking and the TikTok girls under the pandemic, I know using the Internet and appropriately participate in social media can helps girls be visible in the society, especially in the online environment. Therefore, many digital/social media platforms are a good tool to share the opinion and create my own identities. ]]> 2021-04-10 17:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1402879095 canadasohi https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1403013700 Crenshaw, K. (2016, October). The urgency of intersectionality [Video]. TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality?language=en#t-19337

Halliday, A. S. (2020). Twerk sumn!: theorizing Black girl epistemology in the body. Cultural Studies (London, England), 34(6), 874–891. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2020.1714688

McRobbie, A. & Garber, J. (2006). Girls and Subcultures. In Hall, S., & Jefferson, T. (Eds.).  Resistance through rituals: Youth subcultures in post-war Britain (pp.177-188). Taylor & Francis Group.

Mejia, P. (2018). Rookie Brought the Inclusive Spirit of Zines to the Internet Era. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/rookie-brought-the-inclusive-spirit-of-zines-to-the-internet-era]]> 2021-04-10 19:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/canadasohi/a6xu1pxv501sw1cx/wish/1403013700