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Ecofeminism represented in Art             I personally love nature. I was raised in a family that went camping, hiking and on day road trips to different places in nature. My mom used to take me and my younger sister to pick flowers and explore. These experiences help me to understand ecofeminism. Although I understand ecofeminism, I do not agree with all its points. Ecofeminism shows women as taken advantage of and used, much like our earth. It blames the destruction of earth and degrading of women both to a male dominated society.   Upon searching for art on ecofeminism, I became concerned because nothing was really capturing the meaning of ecofeminism to me. For one many of the images were of beautiful naked women. Although the art is beautiful, I felt like it focused on the body of them woman, opposed to the woman as a whole. In my opinion, I dislike that the female body is always being sexualized within media. To me these art pieces feel the same. In media w
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This week we had presentations on the indigenous feminism textbook. We presented on chapter 10, “a Spare Thought for Metis Women Elderhood”. I found this chapter very interesting as she used storytelling to show the issues among metis elders. I specifically was passionate about the lack of rights these elders grew up with, therefore leading to poverty and other social issues. In our brief research, my partner and I discovered that metis people only obtained indigenous rights in 2003. This means that most of the metis elders have gone most their lives without proper rights. This has had an obvious effect on the population of metis elders. According to our chapter, women metis elders have even more difficulties then male elders. When we take in account intersectionality, it makes sense that these groups have many issues in common but also separate struggles.              One main difference is the gender roles growing up. In Angelica’s story, she remembers that her
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