https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/11/
As Professor Selig discussed in class, the century mark of the 19th Amendment is approaching quickly and with it, media coverage and commentary. National Geographic's "Women: A Century of Change" is one of the first collections of dedicated coverage to the centennial and the years leading up to it that I've noticed in a major news source. I particularly enjoyed the Q&A with Christine Lagarde, who spoke at CMC a few commencements ago. Take a look and would love to hear more thoughts / reactions!
I’ve always been fascinated by images. What they mean within their own historical context, what the stylistic and content choices imply or imbue, how they perpetuate or challenge our conceptions of the content, etc., and going through the photos of the century (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/10/how-our-photo-archive-reflects-the-times-feature/), I was amazed by the diversity of images considering how one-sided images depicting women have historically been. The politics of images have favored depicting women in sexualized and exotic matters, but the reality of women, and people more broadly, is far more richer. These photos attest to historical, cultural, and individual diversity, and that’s beautiful. Personally, I find it perplexing how someone or some group(s) can have a political agenda that implicitly or explicitly is comfortable hiding this fruitfulness that the human experiences contains for the sake of maintaining a status quo. It truly does a disservice to everyone when we hide, simplify, or conjure untruthful (as anything but the entire truth is untruthful) images.
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