I ran across an article that featured Aja Brown who is the mayor of Compton, California. The article talks with the mayor about her life and discusses what she's doing to improve the city.
We have often talked in class about how women in power are viewed in the media and in pop culture so what caught my attention was that this article was featured on Vogue.com, which is a high fashion magazine. Normally when we analyze high fashion and gender we associate it with problematic issues so I found it pretty interesting that Vogue wrote this article.
I don't read Vogue magazine and I don't know how often they have features of women like this one in their publications but I did subscribe to TeenVogue when I was younger (until I grew disinterested in fashion) and I don't recall them ever having those types of articles either.
Overall I thought the article was great and interesting read about a women in power handling one of the worlds most notorious cities in America.
http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/you-can-call-her-mayor-brown-how-aja-brown-is-transforming-the-city-of-compton/#1
I definitely enjoyed reading the article! I'm not a Vogue fan but this is not something I would expect to be in there! I'm glad something so inspiring can be put into a magazine that reaches a big audience.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually becoming more common practice in fashion magazines. Even in cosmo (which I wouldn't say is high fashion but still) talked about women in powerful positions and fashion in DC. I like the new trend!
ReplyDeleteMagazines geared towards women need to focus on articles like these more. By showing women in powerful positions and their success in said positions, hopefully we can push the idea of a strong female into more mainstream representations of women.
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting read! Thanks for sharing it!
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