Hello everyone!
My name is Juliana Howell, I am a twenty-four year old woman from Fall River Massachusetts. I am a senior here at UMASS Dartmouth studying psychology, I commute from my home in Fall River to UMASS Dartmouth, then to my work in Bridgewater, MA straight after class. Prior to the job I have now, I was a daycare/preschool teacher and prior to that I had a couple of customer service jobs. However, for the last two years I have been working in Bridgewater as an ABA (Applied behavior analysis) therapist for children diagnosed with autism. I feel as though ecofeminism is important to the world that we live in today. We have progressed, but there is a lot of growth that still needs to be done by communities and those around us.
One of the blogs I was gravitated toward was http://feministing.com/2019/01/14/i-asked-the-department-of-education-to-fight-for-black-girls-they-ignored-me/ by Faima Fair, titled “I asked the department of education to fight for black girls. They ignored me”. Due to the title I was naturally drawn to this article, after the first few sentences I was completely engaged. This blog was short, sweet and to the point and very informative. This blog will differ from my own work due because I may not always be focusing on women of color versus every other women. I do believe that as women in general we all have our own battles and experiences that we can all feel for. This could relate to my work because I do feel heavily for the body shaming that and other issues publicly and privately by ourselves that we deal with from the world around us.
An environmental issue that I believe is very under minded is littering!!!! Most people (who aren’t really into the Earth’s well being) when they tend to talk about the environment and climate change not the reason why the Earth is dying and animals are going extinct. Living in Massachusetts almost every street you turn on to you will find something that does not belong there, or isn’t biodegradable because of someone’s pure laziness. There are signs planted everywhere for a $500.00 fine for littering, and never have I ever seen or heard of someone stating they’ve been caught or fined for littering. I do feel like the environmental police should be more involved, there was a time a few weeks ago on my way to work where a man chucked half of a breakfast sandwich along with the bag and wrapper out of his window. I was angry and disgusted, for one, because people truly do not care the harm they are causing and two, there wasn’t much I could do about it. I am sure that littering is an issue everywhere, but here where I am from it is terrible. I would like to see a more serious and heavier hammer be put down on this matter all over the world!
