stereotyped by her socioeconomic status

How do students experience class oppression? In what ways are students’ daily interactions impacted by their socioeconomic status?

Introduction!

My name is Jennifer Weill and I am a Women's and Gender Studies major at Syracuse University. For my senior capstone project in the Honors Program, I have constructed a collaborative photography project that challenges the systematic oppression of subordinate groups of people on Syracuse's campus. Students and I have together deconstructed the ways in which they have been silenced, misrepresented, and stereotyped because of certain axes of their identities. We then reformulated hegemonic understandings of the various sociopolitical locations that these students occupy, whether in terms of their sexuality, race, class, gender, or physical and mental abilities.

Each student has been photographed twice, first portraying a stereotype about their identity, and second redefining their identity in terms of their personality, work, hobbies, and goals in an empowering way. Now that I have completed the photography portion of my capstone project, I will post several of the photographs on this blog, each with a corresponding discussion question about the stereotypes that the photographed student faces. I hope that this blog initiates dialogue among students, where they think critically and actively about issues of representation at Syracuse University.