Stories: Power, Agency, and Representation

STORIES: POWER, AGENCY, REPRESENTATION

• Portrayal of groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics

• Media constitutes a language system

• Find new ways to represent our reality

• All representations are biased

• To look like or to resemble

REPRESENTATION

• To stand in for something or someone

• To present a second time – re-present

AGENCY

• Rise above

• Act for yourself

• Community participation

• Inherent and Active role

• Assert your identity

• Make things happen

TABLE TALK

1) Do you think your costume is a mark of power, agency or, representation? Why?

2) How do you exert your power, agency, or representation in your daily life? How do you plan to do it starting today?

POWER

• Patriarchy

• Phallocentric Gaze

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