Last week I was part of the design challenge so I got to meet a lot of really cool zine artists and become relatively close with an awesome zine artist. During this my group asked my zine artist a lot of questions about her life and how she became to be a zine artist. But the story that we thought was the most interesting was that she said she had a last minute zine fest in a garage so we decided to incorporate that into the prototypes that we did because we thought the story was so funny. After listening to that and trying to complete the different tasks that we had to do it became very stressful to try to make the different things that we didn't really know what things that we had to do. I felt like there wasn’t much instruction as to what we were doing but it was a good experience to see what we could come up with and how we could have made it better in the end. We had a really good group so even though we didn’t really know what we were doing we still could make the best out of the experience and create a table space that anyone at the zine fest could use. We tried to make it personal because we figured that that is a big part of the zine culture because they are super personal and they give something that they believe in.
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At this school we know that a lot of people have a lot of different people but seeing all of the strong empowering women walk out to stand up for something that we all are passionate about. I had the wonderful opportunity of standing up there with all of the women in my life that have made a difference someway or somehow. Standing up there and listening to all of the stories made me feel a certain way and seeing how that affected the other women in my life moved me more than if I had just read the pieces on my own. I loved the fact that male teachers went up there as well to show all the young men at our school what a feminist looks likes. I think that I didn’t really think that deep into why I was chosen to go up there with mrs Hood-Esparza, But once I talked to my advisor about it she made me realize that there was more than just being chosen. I was chosen because I am a strong young women that has been called those names but I have also proven that I am much more than that and I have a lot of courage to do that in front of people that have called me those names. And to be able to say it with confidence is something that doesn’t come easy for most but I felt the energy from the people around me and that is the reason that I got so much more out of that. The message that the poem sent was a lot more than the words that were said. I thought that I felt more empowered by the meaning that I got from it. I related so much to what was said in the poem that it was written for me or for women like me. This is just another reason that I love high tech and how it empowers their students to do thing like this and stand up for what they believe in.
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Cayla MaltmanI am an 11th grade student. Here I will be reflecting weekly to see my progress as a student this semester. Archives
May 2018
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