Final Project - Criminoladies

My project wasn’t creating something you can touch or hold, but a hub for people to read stories and change their views of activism beyond how people may immediately view it. So much attention is brought to legal change as simply writing a piece of legislation and having important, influential figures sign it, but these are options not available to everyone. There is a certain status you must have to even get your foot in the door for these things. Nato Thompson talks of cultural capital, and this is undoubtedly exemplified in how the women experience a lower cultural capital than the white man who could yell at fellow white men about a law or practice that needs to be changed. He goes on to say that cultural capital displays “power disparities” between different groups regarding race, class, ethnicity, location, and gender. Each of the activists featured on my page have a low cultural capital as women, but some of colour, some of lower class, they have all used unconventional means of bringing change.

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I began with Clarice Starling, who holds a fondness in me due to the inspiration she offered as a woman entering a male-dominated environment, albeit fictional. I’d discuss aspects of the women’s struggles and how they overcome them, in this case, I used screenshots from the film to exemplify what I was referring to in the post itself. Within 2200 characters, I’d try and cram in every wonderful thing that post’s figure had accomplished despite the push backs, because of this, they aren’t too long or daunting-to-read big walls of text. This was one of my biggest struggles because I could write pages about some of these women, despite history trying to snuff some out, there’s records of their achievements that warrant the attention and recognition. The women in this project weren’t all brought to my attention through school textbooks, in fact, only one was. The rest were unnamed revolutionaries thrown in with the most basic facts, and others went unmentioned altogether. Because of the different stories of these women, I can't take the information from all of the same sources so I've compiled a list of their sources, both information and image, in the final two images of each post so anyone looking for further information can find it easily and immediately

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The Interventionists book is filled with artists and activists who interrupt your day through various means, some with taxi screens that project messages to outsiders, some with an inflatable home for the homeless to hit you with the reality of not only homelessness itself but a wasted resource. With this project, I hope to ‘interrupt’ the typical flow of an Instagram feed; fashion, a healthy breakfast, a work out regiment, and more beauty figures. In between these, a dose of female empowerment can’t be a bad thing. Much in the same tone as interruption, Pussy Riot’s performances disrupt the peace of certain areas to tackle issues from economic struggles brought on by the government to overpowering church influence. I’d like to think this project is a tribute to their, and other Interventionists work.

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Each of the images used here were all from different posts to avoid spoiling too much if you would like to visit my page yourself to read about influential women of criminology. Here's a link; https://www.instagram.com/criminoladies/

Presentation of project: https://prezi.com/view/GH6YbCrdDr56zSKlWydM/