I am working with Katherine for our Impact25 Project. Our idea addresses recent events in the media about women’s role in society. Women are faced with increasing amounts of criticism, scrutiny, and double standards. To counter this negativity, women have banned together to create movements such as #WCW, Women’s Crush Wednesday to encourage mutual positivity and support. We would like to build on this community, and have women encourage and mentor one another. Personally, I also read a lot of advice columns online such as Dear Sugar and Ask Polly.
Our idea is to take this advice column idea, and ask 25 women (our female friends, relatives, acquaintances of a variety of ages): What would you tell your 21 year old self? I know we both would have a lot of “wisdoms” that we’d like to share to our past selves, and am sure that there are many fellow women who feel similarly. We plan on utilizing the most commonly used form of communication today: texting, as our platform. Most of us will respond to a text, or at least read the text response. The language and tone is casual and easily reliable. We plan to take screenshots of everyone’s answer and uploading it onto a website. This website can be easily refreshed and accessible on the go (subway), and creating a hashtag to go with it. Other possible physical responses would be printing out the screenshots on the laser cutter true to size, with the advice etched onto it. This would give the viewer the feeling of actually holding a phone and reading advice from a real life — or virtual — new friend.
Our idea is to take this advice column idea, and ask 25 women (our female friends, relatives, acquaintances of a variety of ages): What would you tell your 21 year old self? I know we both would have a lot of “wisdoms” that we’d like to share to our past selves, and am sure that there are many fellow women who feel similarly. We plan on utilizing the most commonly used form of communication today: texting, as our platform. Most of us will respond to a text, or at least read the text response. The language and tone is casual and easily reliable. We plan to take screenshots of everyone’s answer and uploading it onto a website. This website can be easily refreshed and accessible on the go (subway), and creating a hashtag to go with it. Other possible physical responses would be printing out the screenshots on the laser cutter true to size, with the advice etched onto it. This would give the viewer the feeling of actually holding a phone and reading advice from a real life — or virtual — new friend.
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