Hello Everyone,
My Name is Cassandra Oliveira. I am currently a senior at Umass Dartmouth and my major is Women and Gender Studies. For most of my Undergraduate time I worked for Child and Family services and I grew a strong passion for advocating and helping others. Now I work as a Site Director for a youth before and after school program. This ecofeminism course is very intriguing to me because I believe that feminist concerns and ecological and environmental concerns are intersected and I want to be enlighten to all the ways that they are. I am excited to expand my knowledge of women and gender studies theory.
The blog that immediately grabbed my attention was from ADIOS BARBIE it is called http://www.adiosbarbie.com/2019/10/f-word-dont-use-around-daughter/
It is a very quick read that just hooked you in from the very first sentence. This blog does a very good job at keeping neutrality and not pushing strongly in one opinion or the other on a topic that could be sensitive to some people which I enjoy deeply. I think this blog is slightly similar to the approach I will take in my blog. I will focus a lot on intersectionality and how many feminist issues and environmental issues are a circle of reoccurring actions and reactions to things. One way that may blog may differ is that I will not necessarily be as personal or have many anecdotes about myself unless I see it fit to the topic of discussion.
I have grown up in Massachusetts most of my life living in both Boston and Fall River and one of the largest environmental issues in the state has to do with transportation. “Transportation is responsible for 40% of MA’s greenhouse gas emissions, making it the single biggest source in Massachusetts.” https://www.environmentalleague.org/our-work/priorities/transportation/ One of the largest activists organization for improving this issue is Transportation for Massachusetts. It is a coalition of seventy or more organizations trying to improve transportation issues in the state. The site for this group has an abundance of informative ideas and innovations and quick videos on how to be smarter in regards to transportation and issues like traffic. Here is a video that I thought was direct and helpful.
Changing environmental issues is not an overnight fix but with small strides to a very large global issues things like cheapening massdot, or changing traffic patterns make a difference in the grand scheme of things. I am looking forward to seeing the ideas that these organizations come up with to combat climate change issues.