WEEK ONE REFLECTION

MONDAY

Today in class we learnt about what ihi and wehi meant, and analysed some images using ihi and wehi. Obviously it was important to understand what those two words mean as it is the basis of our assesment.

We also had some guest speakers from the national Council of Women and the massey pacifica advisor. The two talks were both very interesting.

I started thinking about what issue I might like to do for my poster. I am interested in issue that affect women and LGBT rights in New Zealand. I was thinking about LGBT right as I live in Newtown and someone had just been beated up for being part of the LGBT community.

I was also thinking about the abortion rights protests happening in America currently. I think we have an idea that New Zealand is foward thinking in terms of that issue but abortion is still technically classified as a crime here and you have to be signed off by at least 2 doctors to have the procedure done, they can refuse if they want to.

THURSDAY

Today we learnt about visual rhetoric. We had to come up with 30 concepts in class based on 3 words we were givin. This was very challenging but did help me quickly come up with a few things and not think about it to much. That is a useful thing to continue doing thoughout the project.

I also did some research on sexual assault on New Zealand University campuses. I remeber when the story came out in April about the way sexual assault had been treated at knox college in Dunedin. It’s something I care about and also something that effects me and many of my friends being at university.

A study about this exact topic has actually just been done down in Otago university and I was actually quite shocked to find that the statisitc for sexual assault was actually 1/3 girls.