SELF INTRODUCTION POST - Amanda Losardo

 

 

My name is Amanda Losardo. I am 30 years old and a Biology; Diagnostic Medical Sonography major. I currently work with animals, I am their nurse. I used to very much be into photography but that was as far as my art had gotten. Some of my ambitions you would say are that I really want to help others, it's why I chose the career I did. That's also why I decided to come back to school. I am pretty ambitious about school right now as well. I am currently exploring how to use social media to help other women who suffer chronic illnesses, like myself. 

  In Understanding Patriarchy By Bell Hooks the quote "I was always more interested in challenging patriarchy than my brother was because it was the system that was always leaving me out of things that I wanted to be part of," really resinates with me because I was the only girl growing up and from early on I saw what people expected of me based on my gender. I too was always engulfed in the idea of challenging these "normal" patriarchy ways. Even though I was always taught to say what's on my mind, and to not let anyone tell me there isn't anything I can't do because I am a woman, I still in my house hold knew I was expected to have a certain role, feel a certain way.  A second quote that also caught my attention was "Describing the most damaging of these rules, Bradshaw lists “blind obedience—the foundation upon which patriarchy stands; the repression of all emotions except fear; the destruction of individual willpower; and the repression of thinking whenever it departs from the authority figure’s way of thinking.” For nearly the same reasons as the first quote. 

   In What Memes Owe to Art History the quotes “Narratives matter.…Pictures don’t speak for themselves,” he said, arguing that memes are not just jokes, but rather have the potential to be more sinister than what meets the eye."( second paragraph) & "It isn’t so much about visuals, but instead digs deep into the cultural architecture of memes and their political power as a networked critical resistance, where their abilities to incite and inspire, to problematize and be problematic in equal turn, offer a mirror image of our volatile present as much as their avant-garde heritage,"(last paragraph) are simply just trying to tell us that memes are escalating and they are having a far greater impact than people are willing to believe... if they go viral. 

In Memes Are Our Generations Protest Art the quotes “Memes help to articulate specific points, amplify ideas, and intensify emotions," & "Memes can spread far more quickly than the songs or art projects of previous generations, and there’s such a low barrier to entry that anyone can make them; they can go viral in a matter of minutes," go hand in hand with one another and the previous article. You can make a meme and it can go viral in seconds and it can spark a rally of people coming together for the cause. Thus proving the point of the title.