My friend Myra and I are the Equity Commissioners for CESA council (the Concurrent Education Student’s Association). It’s early in the year but one of our big goals is to raise the profile of our portfolio by participating in outreach and education events. We decided to participate in the “Who needs feminism?” event by ASUS. The Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Society has a big Equity Office with a huge budget and a ton of volunteers, so smaller faculty societies like ours definitely depend on them to take the lead, but we are happy to contribute! We submitted the photo below on behalf of our organization. We both chose an education related theme, relevant to us and a perspective that hadn’t been included yet. We had limited space to express our views but we wanted to explore both ideas of the ‘limits’ that young women face as well as issues of gender in the field of teaching and education.
We chose to continue the project on a smaller scale by having visitors to the con-ed office participate using sticky notes on our bulletin board.