Activism Log 2

Michael Farmer

Nina Perez

WST 3015

1 April 2010

Activism Log # 2

Activism:

My group and I are on a good track with our project, we communicate regularly via the web and bounce ideas off of one another. This week I've been working on the research for a poster board full of information about Animal Safe House Of Brevard, the work they do and why it's so important. I'm also planning to take the same data and create flyers that can be distributed about our event and the organization. I'll place these flyers around my apartment building, my neighborhood downtown and at the gay and lesbian center.

Reflection:

This week was again a week of planning and reorganzing as things developed. Always in my mind was the “Twelve Step Method”, from Fight Like A Girl (Seely 19), it's helped me to organize our work in my head.

Reciprocity:

Working with Animal Safe House of Brevard has been a very eye opening experiance for me. I've long been invloved in praxis, working in the LGBTQ rights movment and I've always though of myself as a feminist. But, I've never really seen te physical effects of what happens to women when they are abused by their spouses. It's so important that their animals, sometimes the only happiness they have in their world have a safe place to stay so that their moms can become free. I'm glad to have gone "outside the box" on this one and strayed from my normal praxis.

Seely, Megan. Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist. New York and London: New York UP, 2007. Print.