I'm going to budget for 5-6 posters right now. In all likelihood I'll only need 5 but I just want to budget for more. 

• One 24x36 poster from Staples costs $30. So if I had 6, it would be $180, if I had 5, it would be $150. Out of these, 2 would be complex visuals, 1 would be a quote and 2-3 would be blown up photographs. An 18x24 poster from Staples costs $15, so I could have the two pictures be smaller if necessary. If I did that, it would be $120.
• Corkboard from Amazon is $40
• Index cards should be < $10, along with pens.

So I'm hoping to keep it below $150. It's the posters that really make a dent.

When it comes to gendering silence it's a conversation I'm not looking forward to having, or at least it's one that lends me a great deal of confusion. I don't know how study silence as it relates to women; do I approach it from the 'outside' so to speak, as I do with race? Do I have any claim in that experience? Does it matter? It boils down to a personal question for me that I'm not sure I have the answer to: have I ever been a woman? I didn't have the vocabulary or concepts to explore that question when I was younger, but I always felt a 'disconnect' of sorts with gender, and I can't parse out what my younger self could have been thinking or feeling.

I led our silent activity on October 8th

We played a game which I mistakenly said was named "Bang" at the time, but is actually called "Screaming Trees", where all the participants stand in a tight circle with their shoulders touching. Everyone looks at the ground/each other's feet. The leader counts to three, at which point everyone must look up and at someone's face. If you make eye contact with the person you were looking at, you are both out of the game. 

Eventually, in theory, a sort of psychic focus is formed, where it takes a long time for people to make eye contact with each other. There is an awareness of each other and each other's intentions that develops. I think we definitely hit that point, where it took many rounds to get people out.

I am fascinated by the idea Jason Stanley spoke of using linguistics to silence people; his example about when one chooses the phrase "tax relief" versus "tax cut".

It wasn't exactly a new concept. It is often used when oppressing whole groups. For instance, labelling women "bossy" or "needy" instead of "a leader" or "honest" transforms their very real struggles and the value they contribute to society into something that can be/is a mockery. By labelling people of color, specifically black people, as merely "angry", politicians undermine their justified frustrations with the norms of society.

Something very similar has been happening not only on Bryn Mawr's campus, but on that of the University of Missouri.

I just looked again @ Released: Alex Juhasz's5 Short Videos about Women and Prison (also noting that only two of you, so far, had viewed it...). Madison and Farida, I'd recommend it especially for you, as an invitation to think about how to structure and shoot a video--I think that those close-ups of Angela Davis will inspire your filmmaking!