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Strategies to shift the balance
The document discusses various strategies used by social activists, particularly feminists, to address and combat systemic biases and inequalities. It emphasizes the importance of storytelling and the need for diverse narratives, highlighting specific strategies such as humor, small claims, street actions, and leveraging technology. Ultimately, it advocates for increasing the presence of female storytellers and narratives that reflect positive male figures.
Strategies to shift the balance
- 1. Which strategies areused by social activists to shift the balance?
- 2. To be afeminist in 2017 is still walking a thin line…
- 11. Yet, no matterthe critics, there is still plenty of work to do…
- 17. To prepare peopleto this world, we carve them into boxes
- 23. We trap peopleinto narratives
- 27. Even our metastories are biased. The Matrix goes very deep…
- 32. And when ourstories are about women, it is through the male gaze
- 41. But what dothey see?
- 44. Toxic masculinity shooting peopleeverywhere
- 45. We are reachingthe limits of our system
- 47. So what canwe do?
- 48. We need tostart acting at individual level
- 51. What is thestory you want to tell about yourself?
- 54. And then atcollective level, what are the strategies we can use?
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- 58. Her response todiscovering that she only earns 78 percent of what her male colleagues earn is simple: she’ll only do 78 percent of her work. Easy!
- 62. Strat #2: Smallclaims
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- 72. Strat #4: Streetactions
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- 85. Strat #6: Spreadbest practices. Concrete tips and manuals
- 90. Strat #7: Newsuperpower Train women in a new skill
- 98. Strat #8: Leveragethe power of the crowd
- 103. Strat #9: Usetechnology
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- 107. Strat #10: Thepower of the image
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- 116. Strat #11: Leveragenew media Podcasts, newsletters, graphic design, youtube channel, buzzfeed, AJ+, ATTN short videos, Social media campaigns
- 124. The ultimate strategy#12: change the stories!
- 126. We need morefemale storytellers
- 144. We need morestories of loving and caring men
- 147. Because at theend of the day…