Let's Make Stuff Workshop


Please watch our video of our project.

Making this product, I worked with Helen and Dena.  At first we were not sure what to create but once we started collaborating, we came up with some good ideas.  We made a scene of a young, chubby, African American girl watching Cinderella.  When her disabled grandmother called her for dinner, she said she was not hungry because she wanted to look like Cinderella.  On the other hand, we did a scene of a young, thin, Caucasian girl watching Cinderella.  She was happy and went to eat dinner with her mother.

This was a great experience to create a short clip showing how the stereotype of what a princess looks like effects children. I could use this in my classroom to open my students' minds to diversity and how fall representations can have negative effects on people.  We did not continue the first scene so they can come up with what they think might happen after the child does not want to eat. They can also critically think about how they could fix this issue today.

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