How CAN memes act as a form of resistance and advocacy?
Memes can be used for resistance and advocacy. With meme being able to be shared easily. It gives meme to reach more people with the message and it allows it to be a quick way to poke fun at something or to draw attention to a cause.
A quote from “The Art of Activism” that describes part of activism is “All being an activist really entails is having an idea of what needs to be changed and doing something about it.”
Activism - consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good.
A quote from the reading “Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks” that describes patriarchy is “social organization marked by supremacy of the father in the clan or family in both domestic and religious functions…by male domination and power.”
Patriarchy- a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.
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