I'm off work all of next week because right now we are in between the school year program and the summer program. I went in to work on Monday and Tuesday and was very busy preparing for my girls group. I spent hours typing up a comprehensive (14 page!) curriculum that will be a very helpful guide. I also prepared my room...cleaned out all the cigarette buts, scrubbed the tables, dusted, and stocked it with some necessary supplies. I felt so happy to be cleaning a space that will be exclusively for the girls group. We get to decorate it as we want and make it our own space. I plan on printing out some pictures of inspirational women to put on the walls of the room. The first day of the summer program is Monday, July 9th and that will be the first day of Girls Group ( I decided I want it capitalized). The Group will be made of 7-9 girls and we will be together Monday through Wednesday from 11:00am till 4:00pm. I have already chosen 6 girls who have agreed to be in the group, they are all seventh graders, so I'm gonna try to get a few eighth graders too. On Thursdays the girls and I will go on trips with the larger group (about 150 kids!). During Girls Group we'll discuss all sorts of important things like popularity and cliques, family, communication, anger, puberty, hygiene, race, culture, rumor spreading and teasing, body image, and finding our true selves. There are lots of interesting activities that we'll be doing plus some fun outings. We'll also do arts and crafts. The girls wanna learn how to knit so I promised them I'd teach them how, and we're gonna make beaded bracelets and such. I am hoping to have a health and beauty day at the end during which we'd do an intense exercise dance class in the morning and then get our nails done, or bring some people in to braid in the afternoon.
So right now I am doing more last minute preparations....trying to find museums and places that offer discounted or free tours to large groups, reviewing my knitting skills, making a CD with happy inspirational music etc. I am also enjoying some free time to read, roam, go to yoga class.
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07.01.2007, 08:30
As I showered only a moment ago, I noticed the label on the soap bottle, which read, �Softsoap: For Men.� I figured that inscribing my mental analysis of such a label might be useful in illustrating further the point I attempted to make in the previous entry: overall, the fact that in such capitalistic regimes as the ones in which this bottle was designed, manufactured, and ultimately sold, certain inequalities � which themselves were originally established in ancestor capitalistic economies � are exploited and propagated further, perpetuating the cycle of capitalistic oppression.
In this case, the male identity is an exploited, socially constructed description that functions only in continuing social discrepancies and forms of exclusion. Specifically, the soap-making, capitalistic institution is using the already- and capitalistically-established sex and gender distinction to further manifest caesura in the social body, and to thereby separate and order the population into groups that they can subsequently market their products to.
Thus, such products must be boycotted for other, generic or even homemade brands. The latter brands, as suggested by their very name, will serve to encourage instead a politics of equality, or political truths, in the sense that the genericity of the brand is oriented and applicable to all, apart from all capitalistic notions of gender, sex, or other identity categorizations.
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