However, I've also been thinking about something Alexa mentioned on day 1 of class - that Oberlin students would be really into something that combined sexual health/gender roles with environmental stewardship. Bear with me for a minute:
-In Darfur, countless women have been raped, and sexualized violence has become a systematic tool of the Janjaweed militia and Sudanese army
-The conflict is largely fueled by environmental scarcity, specifically water scarcity
-Al Gore points out, in an Inconvenient Truth, that this is largely due to the drying up of Lake Chad. And, he continues, these kinds of conflicts will inevitably be more common if the worst affects of global warming take hold and drought increases worldwide.
Thus, individual choices, carbon footprints, and environmental stewardship clearly connect with human rights, gender roles, and sexualized violence. This is a connection that I've been very interested in for a long time, and have done a lot of work on in the past. Could we give it a try? I'd be willing to write the skit, and think it would be a very good challenge.
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David,
I love, love, love this concept, I and I think that it can only be expanded. Although the other organizations (SIC, ELC etc.) wanted this month to focus on sexual assault in the Oberlin community, I, personally, believe strongly in showing these invisible issues. The DRC and its history with systematic campaigns of rape and assault are something to also consider, along with other histories closer to our country, as close as Mexico. Develop this further into a more concrete idea.
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