Introduction

Hi everyone! My name is Madison Tompkins, but I prefer to be called Madi. This is my second semester as a fully online transfer student at UMassD majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies, and I am set to graduate in Spring 2021. I live in upstate New York where I work full time for a facility called Transitions through my county’s ARC chapter. What I do as a peer mentor is support young adults with learning differences to foster their independence in their professional, educational, and personal lives. Part of my job that is pretty different from most is my schedule, as I sleep overnights from Tuesday until Thursday every week at a supportive apartment to help further the learning experience outside of a classroom setting. I love my job despite its challenges, it is extremely rewarding and having four days off allows me to pursue my education.

When looking through the collection of feminist blogs, one that was familiar to me was Everyday Feminism. I have personally been on EF’s site before because I have followed it on social media for some time, but I also had experience in classes from my previous semester where some sources provided from my professor was from EF. This blog has a wide variety of feminist topics that is discussed by different feminist authors to provide more diverse standpoints into issues that one may not have an inside perspective on. I also feel that this site is also very informative, last semester I recall reading an article about the strategy “calling in” rather than calling out people for their wrongdoings. I feel as though I can take away from EF’s blog styling by researching multiple standpoints so that I can potentially provide more informative postings about different topics. One aspect of this blog that I hope to differ from is making the posts more personal. EF’s authors make their articles personal, but the blog as a whole has more community contributors, so I hope to make my blog more in depth into my personal experiences.

One environmental issue I believe is very relevant to where I live is water pollution. Where I live in New York, the Mohawk River runs through many of my neighboring towns and cities. According to a local news source The Daily Gazette, starting in 2016 to 2018 it is estimated that nearly 500,000 gallons of sewage was flowing into the Mohawk River due to overwhelmed sewage collection systems during storms or periods of increased runoff. During this time, the Department of Environmental Conservation urged people to avoid fishing and swimming in the river. Since then, New York State government has provided funding toward the Mohawk Valley watershed and to other cities impacted by the sewage flow. Growing up in towns along the Mohawk, I remember it always being littered with garbage and just a generally dirty body of water. Water pollution is a growing issue across the world with the prevalence of discussions surrounding cleaning up our oceans, but other smaller bodies of water are also suffering from the impacts of water pollution.

 

Coming into this class, I do admit that the concept of Ecofeminism is still foreign to me. I am intrigued to learn what this class has to offer on another standpoint of feminism, and I look forward to learning with everybody this semester!

 

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  1. Greetings Madi.
    You have a very challenging job, the best to you. Have you decided on a concentration in WGS?
    LIke Mohawk, my home county of Dekalb has a recurring problem of sewage, from an outdated system plus an explosion of new construction. The government has decided to take measures to improve it. LIke the rest of the county, trash is everywhere especially in our rivers and streams; to that end the Watershed Management department started “Adopt-a Stream” program which is run by volunteers to keep them clean. There is so much work to be done to protect out habitat.
    bridget.

  2. Hello Madi,
    Living is Southern California, oftentimes the beaches are closed due to some kind of contamination. It’s heartbreaking to know that big corporations, factories and people don’t seem to understand the ramifications of their destructive actions. Or it could be, more likely, the bottom dollar/greed/profit is the only thing that matters. As potential future ecofeminists, it may be our job to bring these issues to the forefront, such as Greta Thunberg is regarding global warming. Is it really so hard to band together to create a better planet for our future? As more and more women climb the political ladder, let’s hope these issues get tackled. But let’s not wait for them…

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