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Step Forward

paddington's picture

During the process of this 6-week project about gender in BM, especially in the process of interviews of women in BM with current students in BM, I came to another curiosity. That is, how do my fellows in my own college will answer to these same questions? Tsuda College, my own college is also a small women’s college. It has a long relationship with BM since the founder of Tsuda was an alumnus of BM. In my impression, it is very similar to BM in many aspects, as some professors know both colleges say “Tsuda is BM in Japan and BM is Tsuda in US”. However the gender roles in these two colleges are very different. BM is very friendly to all gender minorities and is very flexible with “change” in order to pursue further more comfortable and safe place for every student.

Reflects to the presentation

ZhaoyrCecilia's picture

After the presentation, my partners and I all think that we can continue our concerns in gender and sexuality in Bryn Mawr. First, Elena sent some e-mails to the heads of the rainbow alliance to ask questions, but there were few people replied. Thus, we really want to suggest them to pay attention to their email make sure they can help solving the problems that people meet. Second, we decide to continually care about the gender and sexuality issues in different races clubs and try to think out some solutions for the problems that people who are not white meet in their own culture.

Marking and Masking Identity through Clothing: Effects of Style and Appearance on BMC Interactions

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Marking and Masking Identity through Clothing: Exploration of the Effects of Style and Appearance on BMC Interactions

My partner, Angela, and I worked together to figure out the salience of clothing and style in shaping Bryn Mawr as a contact zone. While Angela on the contact zones surround the For Free/For Sale Page and Free Boxes around campus, I focused on the social impacts of how people dress themselves, and how the social interactions at Bryn Mawr shaped how they dress themselves.