Activism

Throughout the history of activism within the LGBT+ community, there has been a common goal to promote openness and acceptance. By employing a strategy modeled after the civil rights movement, which mainly focused on assimilation into the dominant institutions as a means of acceptance, activist groups have received their fair share of criticism. In 1997, Cathy J Cohen, a Black lesbian author and social activist, published the groundbreaking article “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The…

When we hear the word hacktivism we automatically associate the word with hacking. Hacktivism is a combination of hacking and activism. According to Oxford dictionaries, Hacking is the use of a computer to gain unauthorized access to a system. Activism is the action of using vigorous campaigning to bring social awareness or political change. The word hacktivism is defined as the act of doing the hacking or breaking into a computer system for a politically or socially motivated purpose.…

to be viewed as a useless act in political terms. The article argues that online activism is more than just signing online petitions and liking things. Each action is significant in the fight for some sort of political change. Critics of it view it as a way for people to fulfil their moral obligations without actually doing anything but click a button. This article goes against this, discussing why social media activism is actually quite effective, no matter the size of an act. The author…

Now that technology is so advanced a new way of being an activist has also started to trend, slacktivism. In the essays “’Slacktivism’ Makes the World a Better Place from the Couch”, by Heidi Schlumpf and “Putting Action Back in Activism”, by Gabriella Corvese. Schlumpf and Corvese argue between themselves about where they stand in this new trend called slacktivism, they both have different ending perspectives on the effect of slacktivism. Schlumpf starts off her essay by stating how she…

change and things are viewed differently as they once were, people 's views on things change with the time. Why should we allow the courts to constitution when everyone sees it differently. The issue of judicial restraint vs. judicial activism is that judicial activism* is generally refers to judges who allow their personal and political views to affect their interpretation of the law, and, consequently, their decisions in important cases. Judicial activists are often accused of ignoring…

argues the ambiguity in the relationship between the separation of the structure of an activist group and the strong and weak tie phenomenon. The structure and relationship between individuals of a group both contribute to the category of activism. During social activism, there are two types of people who contribute to social change. There are the motivated people who participate in more risky actions, and there are the less motivated people who use 160 characters or make a few clicks to…

We are living in a new era of activism. From organized deployments of field activities to the seemingly popular, yet inflammatory act of disruption, protests have become widely covered in the news during the Trump era. Sadly, the final product of journalists often tell of the cases of “extreme protesting.” Examples of extreme protesting include dissenting demonstrators interrupting a controversial event on a college campus or an incident of antifa and white supremacist groups violently…

A word often associated with protesting is activism. Activists are people who are looking for positive change in society (“What Is An Activist”). Activism is a broad term; there are people that seek change in society but don’t call themselves activists, yet they are activists. Activists can change society in a very small to very big way, but the keywords for activism is “positive change”. Activists claim they seek positive change, but who defines positive? Many protests are controversial. Take…

Sons of Liberty: Fathers of American Activism The United States has a long history of political activism by and for the people, a legacy that continues today. The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, more people took to the streets in protest than ever before. That fiercely American action dates back to the Sons of Liberty, a political group that organized for the rights of colonial citizens in the 18th century, against oppressive taxation from Britain (135-136). Many…

The 1960’s was a decade of political and social activism. This generation was swept off its feet by many different song writers who were not afraid to sing in protest of our government. A simple song, can have the power to change the minds and heart of a country, and how they affect or reflect our thoughts about the government and our experiences as American citizens. There were songs created that spoke out against anti-war and political protests. If there is any type of social injustice in this…