Category: Pondering Prompts

“Girly” vs “Manly” templates in the design process!

One very interesting experience I had witnessed was in the process of creating the social media post. My group partner is women and myself a man, so when…

Pondering Prompt: Impacts of Gender

One of the great shames of gender stereotypes and social constructions of gender is that if you identify with being a woman, let’s say, and you exhibit traits…

Pondering Prompt

What internal value(s) might a person cultivate to support a greater understanding, awareness, openness, to the experiences of others?

Pondering Prompt: What Does it Mean to be Human?

Early feminist geography articles discuss how feminist geographers often approach their research and writing and teaching with the goal of reintroducing what is socially-constructed as “feminist” or “feminine”…

Pondering Prompt: What Makes You, You?

Consider who you are. If you remove external objects, structures, circumstances, who are you in essence? What makes you, you? Are you your personality, or do aspects of…

Dualisms

The quote above was from the 18th Century, a period that coincided with the development of “modern geography,” the enlightenment, science as we think of it today, and…

Lists of Privileges

How might it feel to not have the privileges you do have? How might that change your experience in places and spaces?

The Strange Case of the Missing Female Geographer

One might say that feminism in geography started with this paper here. Consider the opening quote that the author later uses to make some of his points –…