For my midterm intervention I will be talking about the issue on how slowly everything in the world is being suppressed leading to people not being able to express themselves, let alone be themselves. This issue may cause issues mentally to people dealing with these types of suppression. Whether it be talking about a topics like LGBTQ+ topics or movements that are very important. There are many different ways that people can express their feelings; social media, flyers or many other ways. However, one of the biggest important that was listed to express someone's issue or sort of activist is social media. Throughout the years social media has been the main place that people are able to express their issues and thoughts out. One of the biggest social media that you can really see these posts is on X (formally known as Twitter). Sadly, due to new CEOs and people in charge of the app Elon started to be a hypocrite on free speech. According to "Elon Musk has become the world’s biggest hypocrite on free speech", Elon Musk has the tendency to ban or terminate accounts that he doesn't like or he disagrees with: "The latest example happened earlier this week when a group of leftwing journalists and commentators, including the Intercept’s excellent reporter Ken Klippenstein, were mysteriously suspended from Twitter (sorry, I will always refuse to call it “X”) without warning or notice as to why. The only thing all the accounts had in common was they had been critical of Israel’s war in Gaza." (Timm). This is one of many examples of how suppression on social can affect others to worry for voicing their thoughts. Lastly, there is another example that showcases these situations of suppression being bad for people. According to "The Social Costs of Emotional Suppression: A Prospective Study of the Transition to College" users or people around the world that get suppressed or shut down due to comments or higher positions feeling horrible and more down: "Individuals who make frequent use of suppression deal with stressful situations by masking their inner feelings and clamping down on their outward displays of emotion. Their efforts at suppression leave them with less positive emotion and with more negative emotions, including feelings of inauthenticity, than individuals who use suppression less frequently." (Srivastava, Tamir, McGonigal, John, Gross) This quote provides us with information how with these situations continuing may effect people more and more.
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For my midterm intervention, my main motive for this flyer was to make the viewers stop and think about where they are, how they feel about themselves or push out any unnecessary emotions that they want to push out but are not able to due to personal reasons. As I have stated above when talking about Elon Musk suppressing users that may disagree with him, giving most of them suspensions of their accounts or many more. This has opened my eyes more on what people do when they have power. Another example is When viewing social media specifically X (formally named Twitter) there are very few instances when scrolling that I would get a tweet that would be out of the norm from what I would be liking and viewing. Many of the times where I would get those tweets many people would be suppressing or attacking the original poster. With these situations I have viewed or seen this had compelled me to make a flyer making people may it be few that express their problems to let them breathe if for even a bit.
This intervention could also correlate to the readings we had read in class on Bell hook's Understanding Patriarchy due to the fact that men are forced to have this type of all strong facade and being the top person in the family. They are forced to mask their emotions and feelings causing them to possibly get worse mentally. My intervention hopes allow viewers of this flyer escape from patriarchy for a small moment and allow people to open up and vent.
Although, at the time of presenting my presentation, I had only gathered two responses of feedback. These two responses made me feel happy and satisfied with each of these responses. Seeing at least two people going out of their way and responding and letting out any issues had made me feel complete.
My inspiration for this intervention is based on a post made on X (formally named as Twitter) that had involved a series and used a meme format. This image (image provided above) includes two types of media that I enjoy viewing or playing. These stories are about accepting one’s self and who you are and the deeper importance of deep human connection. Being able to have this inspiration has given me an upper hand to think outside of the box and think within myself to see what I would want as a person that has problems that wish to be shared with at least one person.
The way I posters were very simple at the end. At first I thought I would have to do an interview and do some sort of very hard work to put up my flyer. Thankfully, all I had to do was ask students or teachers involved and explain about my flyer and was told that it would be put up by the students that lead the flyers in the building.
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