Connecting Scholarship and Activism as a BCRW Research Assistant
As graduation nears, it is time to admit that I must soon leave BCRW, a place that has come to represent the perfect example of what I wish to do with my life.
I remember being very excited to work at BCRW, but not really understanding exactly what sort of activities and projects I would be involved in. I would soon learn that one isn’t bounded to a single project, but rather given the choice to partake in a variety of things. My very first project was to sift through boxes of materials on sexual harassment, including reports and clippings about the first cases against sexual harassment from the 1970s and 80s. As I started taking note of the materials in the collection, I learned how recent the idea of sexual harassment as a crime was. Oftentimes, the Second Wave of the Feminist movement seems so far away from our lives that it was a genuine shock to read about cases of sexual harassment in college settings that were first discussed only a few decades ago! Although I was initially hesitant in my enthusiasm for this project, due to my general interest more in transnational feminist issues, I learned so much about the actors, schools and organizations involved in starting the conversation against sexual harassment at work and in school that I soon forgot that this wasn’t something I’ve always been curious about.
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