Ideas...

So I'm starting this blog post with no idea what I want to do and I'm hoping that by the end of it, I will have an idea, so here goes...

The strands of equality and diversity...

• Age
• Gender and status
• Race
• Sexual orientation
• Faith and belief
• Disability
• Gender identity
• Socio-economic status

The subjects that pop into my head straight away are disability, race, gender, and age.

My chosen specialism is photography...

I still don't have a clue.......

Disability:

• Not every disability is obvious, can't always see them
• Bullying
• Name calling, people don't know that they have something wrong with that person that is being bullied
• Mental disability
• OCD
• Dyslexia
• Visual impairments
• More obvious disabilities, it's not their fault, sympathy

Race:

• Colour of skin
• Should be treated as equals
• Slavery, disgusting
• The only thing that is different is the colour of skin, we are all humans and the same, slavery shouldn't have happened
• Modern day slavery

Gender:

• Women are inferior?
• Freedom to work and get an education
• Women in other countries can't get an education
• Domestic abuse
• Forced marriages

Age:

• Stereotypes
• Young people=bad
• 'Hoodies'
• Moral panics

Overall:

• We all SHOULD be treated the same
• But is it ever going to happen?
• There will always be the division between races, men and women, young and old people, disabled people and non-disabled people
• It would only happen in a perfect world
• As long as there are people who do fill the stereotypes (for example, a young person that fills the stereotype of being a threatening person) we will continue to judge and stereotype.

Outcome ideas:

• Poster
• Article
• Photojournalism
• Series of photos that tell a story

Poster:

• Can't always see the disability
• ie dyslexia, OCD, ADHD
• Photo of a person with dyslexia and text about how you can't see the disability or words that bullies use
• The model holding up the words? The words using different techniques, monoprinting, transfers, etc

Photos:

• A series of photos of things we should be thankful for, food, water, clothes, home, bed, tv, education, family
• Compare to someone in another countries equivalent to this
• Don't know how I'd include other techniques in this

Still finding this very difficult... Don't know where to start or how I can include the techniques from the workshops...