Our project is basically exploring
intersectionality of the Alt-Right supporters, specifically Trump supporters, that
stereotypically would not vote for him.
So, specifically like,
African-Americans, or Muslims and women. So, those were the three main groups that we focused on. They saw this as a paradox, and they wanted
to understand more, so they reached out to
organizations like Muslims for Trump, or Women for Trump, to understand how
they resolved that for themselves, how they framed the issues, and sought to mobilize voters
that shared those backgrounds like them to go and support the president. Paul Dean is
a great professor. He's very open. What you see is what you get.
We all call him Paul, but he's been very supportive and encouraging of us to
explore different things, explore
challenging social organizations, political organizations, and making those connections between anything that we're interested in. So, if it's arts, or
economics, or prison, or environment, or LGBTQ activism,
whatever it is, making those connections and being very supportive of that. Mallory, Emma, and Ares are in a class on social movements
titled "Society, Politics, and Social Movements," and basically, we're interested in examining how
individuals begin with problems that they have about society, or something that they perceive to be
an injustice or an issue with society, and go from, kind of just,
complaining about it individually, or having a problem with it individually, and turning that into collective action.
So, specifically with this class, I've been looking at
how we can bridge the gap between arts and activism,
and how it's very prevalent and very commonly used as
using the arts as a form of activism for social justice and social reform. It was difficult and challenging,
but to look at groups that would we would think, assume, would not vote for a specific person, and to see that they were
heavily supportive.
