CSL Group Activism Project Update!

This week has been very successful for all of us working with the Gender-Based Violence Prevention Project! Just as a bit of a recap, our group activism project is a series of consent-based light projections on campus. Danielle was able to capture some really cool photos of the project so far, and I updated our tumblr site with the contents.

The first posters we projected are from a really amazing group of students at the New College of Florida. What is really cool about this, is that these students have found our project online and connected with us, supporting what we are doing.

In just a few posts, talking about the Gender Based Violence Prevention Project, the posters we used, and our project specifically, we were able to create some really cool online discourse in the Edmonton community, as well as abroad! Our documentation post has 93 notes so far, in just less than a week. It might not seem like a ton of feedback (especially when a lot of online feminist projects get close to thousands of shares, but the reblogs and likes are coming from all around the world and I think that's really cool.

Our projections are coming along well and I am really happy with the results we are starting to see, and the discourse we are creating. I'm starting to realize just how important media can be to activist projects, and how critical it can be to the success and awareness of a project, and I am hoping to develop more strategies to become more effective using media. 

Finally, please check out our site and signal boost it to the people you know. Our URL is consentsquadron.tumblr.com