After reading the article How To Think Like An Activist by Wendy Syfret and watching one of the films that was on the list, I think that we been live in a world where we go through all these different movements like equal pay movement, black live matter movement, or the feminist movement. All of these different types of movements has affected the world by the change in society. I was actually looking the snapshots and the one that caught my eye was from Meiqi Chen because to me it shows like it was has to do with the equal pay movement. Also in the image I saw many women were protesting holding up posters with one of them say “Equal Pay for Equal Jobs”. Another thing I wanted to point out was the background of the image it seems as if they are protesting in there community and to me I say they are protesting is because of the signs and seems like they are walking even though we don’t know if that was happening in the image those are just my own inferences. The video that I decided to watch was Knock Down The House. It was interesting to me because I got to know more about the candidate Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez than what I already knew. Seeing her going back to back with the jobs she was working which were waitress and working on running for congress has showed me how she is a really hard worker and that we are all capable of doing anything. In the article How To Think Like An Activist by Wendy Syfret it talked about the feminism movement and how that history is still alive today. There was many inequality’s between both genders which then lead to women suffering and facing different type’s of issues like sexual harassment, equal pay and domestic violence. For example in the article How To Think Like An Activist by Wendy Syfret on page three it states, “Second- wave feminism has become known for focus systemic sexism, gender pay inequality, reproductive freedom and access to education. Here again, protest and marches were a huge part of the culture. The take back the Night events and marches that were held across the 1970s to draw attention to violence against women were particularly influential”. This part of the article is telling us that many women that have been through or are still going through with all of these types of movements are trying to have equal rights. Therefore in the article it explained each part of the feminism movement that also tells us how the generation has changed through out the years.
Another part of the article that stood out to me was when it was talking about the whole COVID-19 which is something we are facing today. For example in the How To Think Like An Activist by Wendy Syfret on page three and four it states, ” People from all over the world are confronting issues such as climate change, racial injustice, xenophobia and violence against women, people of colour and non-binary individuals. All of these causes have been impacted by the social and financial fallout of COVID-19 and the resulting shutdowns”. Therefore we can see that even today we are facing more issues.
