Project update & quotes

24th April

My project has been a bi-weekly information documentation of influential women in criminology. So far, I have seven complete updates, ranging from women across different professional fields, and even women who aren't real, but fictional characters.

In each post, I try to format it with an initial image with an edited background, the name of the woman, and a quote said by, or about them. My most recent update had very little information due to the lack of documentation on her. My own research wasn't necessary to determine why the first black female attorney wasn't given such a permanent platform at the time. I also include other pictures of significant aspects of their lives; for Penelope Garcia, I added images of her wardrobe, for Kim Kardashian, screenshots of her most poignant tweets. I think it's important that I make these covers myself; I use an app called R4ve, which allows me to make the covers interesting and original to me, which I feel makes these projects truly mine. I also use this program to format images to detail the image credits and sources used in the post for any interested parties reading.

I don't go to a specific source for information on these women because they're so varied; I can't expect a magazine publishing about Kim Kardashian's latest antics to write about the criminology theories developed by Freda Adler, which is again, why I list my sources for each post because it's impossible to simply say I use ____ website.

I really enjoy writing up these little posts because they're small enough for the casually interested rather than a whole essay targeted at scholars or other students in my field. I'm looking forward to completing this project which will conclude at 13 women by the time my project is due to be discussed on the 8th, traditionally an unlucky number but there isn't anything foreboding about spreading female success.

Quotes

Due Wednesday 4/24

‘It’s far better to pie on our feet than to live on our knees.” – to protest against inequality is so much more important than living to put up with the injustice of the powers restricting freedoms, people who were collecting and coveting a lot of wealth while others were starving to death in the exact same city were targeted. One of which was Bill Gates, who is now very vocal about his philanthropism and has been for a few years. I wonder if this experience acted as a catalyst.

“They protest the use of surveillance cameras in public places because they believe these cameras violate a constitutionally protected right to privacy.” – there are cameras throughout every aspect of our life, it’s easier now to see into people’s lives through nefarious means, people can hack into cameras on phones, laptops, home security, there’s even public websites specifically for this. While most of these are likely used by perverts, the government doesn’t need to so publicly invade our resources to be used against us, because they’re the ones who set the infrastructure, including security cameras.