#I THINK I HAVE CVOID

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WELCOME BACK TO LAIOS POSTING today everything went wrong for my beautiful baby princess and but its oaky because the way he experience all the misery was so appealing and attractive oh him IM GAY AND I ADMIT IT IM GAY IM GAY IIM GA

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Support Nurses on Strike

The Snohomish Nurses union (UFCW 3000) is on strike with Providence (one of the largest, wealthiest, most profitable non-profit Hospitals in the Pacific Northwest). They are striking over wages (Almost none of them can afford to live in the area they serve), Staffing (they are consistently asked to take on dangerous case loads, putting patients at risk - AND their own licenses at risk), and safety - many of these nurses were asked to work without PPE during CVOID, not be be given support when put in unsafe conditions. Providence is offering less then a living wage, utterly no support on making sure the departments - especially the ER and L&D departments - have enough support and nearly nothing on safety. Note: while I am not a nurse, nor do I work for Providence, I work with several nurses who have had to get side jobs so they can afford rent and think it's pretty despicable that Providence wants to cut it's already thin nursing staff so they can rake in even more money.

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COVID-19 Update

Do all of you remember when I said that COVID was of absolutely no concern to us in the United States and not to worry about it? Well, I am now going to stay that you still should not be concerned, but I do think that you should be washing your hands more than normal. You should still be more worried about the flu, however.

Off the bat, here is the answer to a common question many of my coworkers and friends are asking me. What is coronavirus? Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that have sticky-outy bits on them that make them look like a crown (accoridng to the scientists who named them). Crown-> corona

Coronaviruses are the most common cause of the common cold, and are the cause of SARS, MERS, and CVOID. Imagine that coronaviruses are like dogs, as a species, and diseases like SARS and COVID are the dog breeds. They are merely subspecies of coronaviruses.

Here is a picture of avian coronavirus:

The name of this virs causing the outbreak is COVID-19.

Here is a (slightly outdated) map of COVID cases in the US:

As you can see, it has expanded quite a lot recently. Here is a very good link to a continuously updating world map with the most recent statistics.

As of 4:30EST on 3/7/2020, there are 105,820 global cases, 3558 deaths, 401 cases in the US, and 17 deaths in the US.

You should still be more concerned about the flu (which kills around 18,000 people in the US each year) but the situation has now developed to a point to where you should keep an eye on the situation, wash your hands, and get checked out if you have reason to believe that you have been exposed.

However, I would advise against stockpiling food and surgical masks. There is no reason to think there will be a food shortage or you will need an extra supply in the near future. As for the surgical masks, they are ineffective for preventing the spread of viruses. Most people wear them incorrectly, reducing their efficacy, and furthermore the virus is small enough to get past anyways. The masks are mostly used to prevent the person wearing them from spraying possibility contaminated airborne droplets. The mask itself won’t stop you from getting COVID.

As always, there is still no need to panic. Unless you are elderly, immunocompromised, or have another illness such as lung or heart problems, if you got COVID, you would more than likely have no complications. Imagine a week of the flu, but not even that bad.

Wash your hands, cover when you cough, and stay away from sick people. This will eventually pass over and you will be fine. Healthcare officials and epidemiologists are working to control disease spread and contain it.

Please reach out to be if you have any questions. Stay safe and well.

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Information Overload Compiled Research: An Annotated Bibliography

Taylor Abouzeid

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

Chae, J., Lee, C., & Jensen, J. D. (2016). Correlates of cancer information overload: focusing on individual ability and motivation. Health Communication, 31(5), 626–634. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1080/10410236.2014.986026

Chae et al. (2016) wanted to examine Cancer Information Overload (CIO) as it relates to low ability and motivation to process cancer topic information. The researchers used four sample groups. In sample one’s mailed questionnaire, three-thousand, nine-hundred and fifty-nine respondents participated. Sample two consisted of an online survey of three-hundred and nine communication, undergraduate students. The third sample was comprised of three-hundred and eight participants from an online crowdsourcing website who participated in an online questionnaire. Unlike the first three samples (from people living in America), the fourth sample was from eight-hundred and thirteen participants from North Korea via an online questionnaire. Education level and participant anxiety were used to establish one’s objective ability to process. Overall, the study found that CIO has more determining dimensions than individual ability and motivation. For example, the researchers found a correlation to familial cancer history and processing ability. To better account for external influence of individual factors, the researchers could have specified survey groups to those already in cancer-related facilities, which could have accounted for variability in knowledge levels. I also think a pretest could have been beneficial in determining processing ability, rather than relying on education level, as many different subjects could be studied in higher education. The researchers acknolowged that further factorial research could have been more representational, but collecting that data would not have been cost effective. For future research, they suggested identifying more situational factors of significance within CIO. My major takeaway from this experiment was that specificity in research groups can have a major role in getting accurate data and results, especially when researching a niche topic like CIO. 

Cho, J., Ramgolam, D., Schaefer, K., & Sandlin, A. (2011). The rate and delay in overload: an investigation of communication overload and channel synchronicity on identification and job satisfaction. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 39(1), 38–54. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1080/00909882.2010.536847

Cho et al. (2011) examined the relationship between levels of synchronicity in diverse communication channels and information overload. The study used one-hundred and three participants from a governmental agency. Three-hundred and forty-eight participants reported their answers through an online survey, and the remainder five-hundred and fifty-five respondents used a paper and pencil survey method. The researchers used four hypotheses. H1 articulated that the use of low-synchronous channels would correspond to more communication overload than higher-synchronous channels of communication. The second hypothesis (H2) placed information overload as a negative predictor for organization identification within respondents. Thirdly (H3), Job satisfaction and communication overload were proposed to have a negative relationship. The last hypothesis (H4) stated organization identification would positively interact with the relationship between job satisfaction and information overload. The results of this study found that both high- and low-level synchronicity channels experienced increased level of information overload, whereas medium level synchronicity held insignificant results. The researchers also discovered the interference of organizational identification and the job satisfaction/information overload relationship. Finally, they noted a significant effect of information overload on the relationship between organization identification and low synchronous channels of communication. I think that in order to apply the results of this study to a generalized mass, the study would need to be replicated across many different companies/organizations with differing primary forms of communication. The researchers acknowledged two limitations, the first acknowledged that due to the temporal nature of the results, there could be a discrepancy from changes across multiple variables; secondly, they recognized that there are more variables to account for organizational member dependency. For future research, the researchers recommended a longitudinal study to account for change over time, and more research on an organization-level approach in regard to a lack of group-level analyses in communication literature. I identified most with the interference of organizational interference on the relationship between job satisfaction and information overload. Personally, the loyalty I feel to my company outweighs any level of information overload I experience on the job.

Crook, B., Stephens, K. K., Pastorek, A. E., Mackert, M., & Donovan, E. E. (2016). Sharing health information and influencing behavioral intentions: the role of health literacy, information overload, and the internet in the diffusion of healthy heart information. Health Communication, 31(1), 60–71. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1080/10410236.2014.936336

Cook et al. (2016) wanted to see the effects of internet health information overload and the consequences on health literacy. They asked many questions; firstly  (H1), they suggested that internet usage frequency would correspond with higher health literacy levels; second (H2), those with higher perceived health knowledge will claim higher internet usage levels, have higher health literacy, have more positive attitudes towards information, and perceive lower levels of information overload; their third hypothesis (H3) claimed that those with higher health literacy will have perceived lower levels of information overload, and have overall positive attitudes towards the information; further (H4) they predicted that the perceived level of information overload would negatively predict one’s attitude towards the information. Regarding persuasion and decision making (H6), the researchers claimed that intention to share would positively predict one’s behavioral intent, and attitudes regarding the information would also positively predict behavioral intent, and likelihood to share information. Their last hypothesis (H6) stated that attitudes towards the information would impact the correlation between health literacy and behavioral intent, and between perceived information overload and likelihood to share information. The researchers also included one research question (RQ1): does health literacy correlate with information sharing intentions? One-hundred and eighty participants from a health care clinic in Texas were shown a conglomeration of “Healthy Heart Information” and were then asked to complete a questionnaire. All hypotheses except for perceived knowledge as a positive predictor for health literacy, and health literacy corelated to positive attitudes (which ended up having the exact opposite effect), were found to hold true. Their research question (RQ1) was removed from their final model because they could not find a direct correlation between health literacy and information sharing. By having such a large number of independent variables within the study I found the number of participants to be low. The data also could have been more representative had this questionnaire been proctored at multiple health clinics. There is also some discrepancy with having individuals rate their own knowledge levels, for one cannot know what they do not know. The researchers said future research should focus around information sharing groups of individuals and examine potentially non-linear models of communication diffusion.  I found most interesting the negative relationship between health literacy ad positive attitudes, as it reflected notions of mean world syndrome. Applying this information to today’s particular CVOID-19 climate, the more information I see the less positive my attitudes are for the future recovery of this pandemic.

Hahn, M., Lawson, R., & Lee, Y. G. (1992). The effects of time pressure and information load on decision quality. Psychology & Marketing, 9(5), 365–378. https://doiorg.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1002/mar.4220090503

Hahn et al. (1992) hypothesized that in the presence of time pressure, people would experience information overload. Conversely, without time pressure, people would not experience the same levels of information overload. They also wanted to test if involvement level has a positive correlation to decision quality in groups with time pressure. They examined four hundred and twenty-one students across eight classes in Seoul, Korea. Students were given varying amounts of attributes for different college paths, and level of involvement was also manipulated in time-pressure sensitive groups. The researchers found that H1 held true, and further saw that when attributes increased from three to twelve there was stronger decision making, but when attributes increased from twelve to twenty, participants gave weaker decisions, implying the presence of information overload. As for H2, involvement level of participant groups played a significant role in decision quality only among time pressure groups. The researchers used a best choice measure which they acknowledged was flawed due to its lack of adequate scaling. Hahn et al. also reported wanting clearer and more sound results for the involvement-level manipulation moving forward. I found it interesting that time pressure only showed increased decision making in low-level involvement groups. Translating this into a university testing setting, it seems as though time pressure is detrimental to student decision making. So ultimately, I wonder why time restraints are still used in high-level involvement exams?

Ji, Q., Sypher, U., & Ha, L. (2014). The role of news media use and demographic characteristics in the prediction of information overload. International Journal of Communication (19328036), 8, 699–714.

Ji et al. (2014) set out to examine the correlation between level of exposure to news media and the likelihood of experiencing information overload. The first set of hypotheses (H1) held that when controlling for gender, young age was a positive indicator for information overload; when controlling for age, women are more likely to experience information overload than men; when controlling for age, gender, and education, higher household income and likelihood to experience information overload will have a positive correlation; and when controlling for age, gender, and income, higher education levels will correspond with a greater likelihood of experiencing information overload. Their second hypothesis (H2) stated that when controlling for demographic variance and internet news usage, mid-level traditional news media use will correspond to a higher likelihood of reporting information overload than those with a low-or high-level use. In RQ1, Ji et al. questioned if when controlling for demographic variance and traditional news media usage, how does internet news media usage corelate to perceived information overload? Their final hypothesis (H3) wanted to explore how when controlling for demographics and news media use, those with higher information searching efficiency will have a negative relationship to experiencing information overload. Two-hundred and twelve Ohio residents responded to a mailed questionnaire, and four-hundred and forty-five college students participated in an online survey. All aspects of H1 were supported, except for education levels indicating likelihood of information overload. H2 was only partially supported with insignificant relationships between the amount of news media relating to information overload. Data analysis confirmed no existing relationship for RQ1. H3 was supported. As with all online surveys, there is always a possibility of low-quality data, especially in this study when extra credit was offered in response to participation in the survey. The researchers simply asked for new research to expand on the ability of communication methods to affect information overload. I found most interesting, that overall, demographic factors played a significant role in information overload. I would love to see a further cultural breakdown, maybe from a cross-cultural study in which comparisons between cultures could be examined. 

Scammon, D. L. (1977). “Information load” and consumers. Journal of Consumer Research, 4(3), 148–155. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1086/208690

Scammon (1977) wanted to test the effects of information simplicity and the amount of information given in reference to peanut butter purchasing decisions. The first tests were used to assess higher objective choice quality and dimensions of information (H1), and objective choice quality and simplicity of information (H2). To test subjective choice quality, the researcher hypothesized higher choice quality with dimensions of information (H3), and simplicity of information (H4). The experiment also tested for a positive relationship between information dimensions and higher subjective evaluation (H5), and a negative relationship between simplicity and higher subjective evaluation (H6). To examine participants ability to recall information the researcher forecasted that high and low dimensions of information would correspond to low recall, whereas intermediate dimensions of information would correspond to high recall (H7), and a positive correlation between simplicity of information and recall ability (H8). The researcher utilized a pretest-posttest methodology to examine the effects of the manipulated variable. Five groups of sixty participants each (totaling 300 participants) were subjected to a questionnaire, followed by a commercial screening and ended with a final questionnaire. H1 and H2 found that some information is better than none in objective choice quality. H3 and H4 found that neither quantity nor simplicity had a significant effect on subjective choice quality. H5 and H6 showed results in the hypothesized directions, but were not deemed significant. H7 was disproved, as the higher levels of information were correlated with lower recall, and H8 held true. I think that by not providing a distraction task or allowing significant time to pass between the pretest and posttest, subjects within the study may have caught on to what the researcher was trying to study. Scammon realized the importance of time pressure in the study, and suggested to better evaluate information overload, time constraints must be taken into consideration. I found most interesting that the number of dimensions presented on the information in the commercial led to a lower recall, which speaks directly to information overload’s tie to an abrupt halt in information processing.

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Arplis - News: Local tech firm says it owns tracking patent as price of new state app called into question

Blyncsy engineer Dallin Starr works at the company’s office in Salt Lake City in this July 14, 2017, file photo. | Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Issues related to state contracts with tech companies — struck in a rush to address evolving COVID-19 issues — continue to unfold as questions are being raised about the cost, and legality of a new app for tracing contacts of infected Utahns.

Two weeks ago, Gov. Gary Herbert unveiled the Healthy Together app, touting it is a more efficient tool to monitor the spread of disease, particularly as things slowly get back to normal.

“Certainly we’re concerned about the ups and downs of COVID-19,” Herbert said. “Until we have a vaccine to inoculate against it, we’ll always have to worry about a resurgence of the virus.”

Herbert said no matter the number of people who download the Healthy Together app, the data gathered will assist the Utah Department of Health in its contact tracing efforts.

“It’s really about having the right tool in the toolbox,” Herbert said. “These tools will help us slow the spread of the COVID virus and, as much as we can, stop its spread.”

The deal cost the state $2.75 million in license and development fees and will also require an additional $300,000 per month in fees for “maintenance and support,” according to the contract language.

The company developing the app, Twenty, has expertise in a social media app that allows users to locate friends and events and boasts some 2 million users. New York City-based Twenty will celebrate its 1-year anniversary in 2020.

State lawmaker Rep. Andrew Stoddard, D-Sandy, is concerned that the state’s executive branch is on a roll of shelling out taxpayer dollars on contracts with companies that are short on track records and able to sidestep typical vetting processes due to an active public health emergency.

“I’m concerned with how fast these contracts are happening,” Stoddard said Tuesday. “I recognize the power of the executive branch, under statute, to suspend the regular procurement process under these circumstances.

“But what percentage of the people who actually download the app are actually going to contract COVID-19? I just don’t anticipate the use justifying how much money is being spent on this.”

Stoddard also cited the state’s multimillion-dollar contract with Nomi Health, a tech startup that’s operating the TestUtah CVOID-19 testing sites and also developed the TestUtah.com assessment website, as another example of a company that lacks any substantial reviewable performance history and was able to secure a no-bid state agreement.

“Tech can solve a lot of problems but is not the solution to every problem,” Stoddard said. “I think the takeaway is not every emergency is the same. Some require immediate action and some just don’t.”

So far, the state has paid Twenty $1.75 million and is awaiting the full buildout of the app, at which point it will be on the hook for the remaining $1 million. The state is reporting that work is expected to be completed in several weeks.

In the meantime, a Salt Lake City-based tech firm, Blyncsy, says it has a patent on the process of using electronic devices, like cellphones, to track contacts of someone with a contagion.

Blyncsy is a company with wide expertise in tracking, which is the core of services it offers to transportation agencies and other clients around the country.

Blyncsy founder and CEO Mark Pittman said he’s opened the door to offering license agreements to companies like Twenty, or any other firm looking to do contagion contact tracing with a cellphone, but it will require the approval of a privacy committee he’s putting together.

“The methods that will be used for contact tracing with electronic devices could just as easily be used for surveillance — and could compromise privacy and personal information,” Pittman wrote in a blog post. “We at Blyncsy are stepping up to solve this challenge. Anyone who licenses our technology will be required to submit their privacy policies, outline their methods and practices for contact tracing, satisfy our independent committee that the system will not be used for tracking of individuals for uses other than to stop the spread of the pandemic, and demonstrate that significant steps are in place to protect personal information.”

Pittman said he has not yet heard from Twenty and attempts to communicate with the company have not received responses. Pittman highlighted his concerns with the potential misuse of tracking technology in a 2017 Deseret News profile of the company and outlined his efforts to help pass state legislation in 2016 that placed limits on law enforcement access to the kinds of location information Blyncsy collects.

A spokeswoman for Twenty said the company isn’t aware of any patent infringement issues and wrote in a May 2 email that it hadn’t heard from Blyncsy.

“Healthy Together is based on technology that was developed by our team starting in 2014,” the spokeswoman wrote. “We are not aware of any patented technology relating to Healthy Together, nor has a patent holder ever contacted us.”

While the state says any infringement issues are between Blyncsy and Twenty, the contract with the app developer is pretty clear when it comes to indemnity issues, including an intellectual property clause that reads, in part: “Contractor also warrants that any good, custom deliverable, or service furnished by contractor under this contract, including its use by the Eligible Users in unaltered form, will not infringe any copyrights, patents, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights.”

The Governor’s Office of Management and Budget reported that, as of Monday, 41,000 users had downloaded the app and some 100,000 have taken the COVID-19 assessment via Healthy Together.

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How Rental Cars Can be Your Better Option to Travel Amidst COVID 19 in Manila Philippines?

Yet as the pandemic continues and Covid-19 vaccinations are potentially far away, one thing for sure social distancing can be part of the normal life for longer than we wanted it to be and that includes mode of transport. Many are wondering what kind of travel would in the near term be safe and feasible. From bucket-lits road trips to far-flung destinations require travel by populated airports and confined aircraft cabins of other passengers may be too hazardous.

Alternatively, many people would probably start smaller and choose short domestic trips nearer home, which can be reached by car. But if you are someone belong to the common urban residence that does not have a car. Then you might be thinking about what might be the solution. Simply investing your money in getting a brand new car can't better for all. So only the only solution left to rent the car.

This might lead to another question whether renting cars are safe during this COVID -19 pandemic? Of course yes. If you still don't agree here in this blog I going to explain why renting cars is the safe move during this pandemic. Keep reading

As due to the huge spread of CVOID-19, as a primitive measure, the government has announced national lockdown which boring various business to hold that included transport and mobility services

However, self-drive car brands keep on improvising and come up with safety measures for the customers to ensure a safe ride. Car rental brands are giving people more reason to turn on their services. Here are some of the reason why you should choose self-drive cars.

Sanitized cars

As the spread of the COVID-19 is surging up and the risk of getting infected is very high. Car rental brands taking uttermost of the cars by sanitizing the cars thoroughly before and after every use to ensure the safety of the customers.

As maintaining and providing clean and sanitized cars are one of the most topmost priorities of car rentals service provides. Therefore every part of car right from the car door handle to seat covers, and steering to gears are sanitized and cleaned before reaching the customer, therefore, you don't have to worry about the safety.

No Need for Direct Contact

Social distancing is crucial during this pandemic. By choosing Rental cars as your mode of transport you can drastically cut down the direct contact.

Many self-drive car rental services are have switched to the digital payment system. You can make your payment directly online without worrying about any physical money transaction.

Most of the leadingcar rental brand offer doorstep delivery and pickup services which adds additional safety as you don't have to step out of your home anymore.

Keyless Entry System

As the research has proven the deadly novel coronavirus can stay on the surface for more than 2 days. Thus the panic of touching any kind of surface might continue for long. Car rental brands have come up with a solution of introducing keyless entry features which help to minimize the physical contact of using the keys.

By leverage of benefits of technology such as IoT, rental services providers ensure their customer with safe and secure services. Brands are even providing sanitizer along with the video tutorial to how to sanitize the vehicles for safer riding.

Well Trained Chauffeurs and employees

For industries like e-commerce, retail and mobility on-ground employees are crucial as they are the main aspect of the business. Thus make it essential to provide proper training regarding the safety norms for the employee.

Well, all self-drive car rental brands are striving to make sure that every employee are property guided and sticky follows all the safety procedures. This will ensure a safe ride for the customers and as well as safeguards their own health.

Flexible plans

Yet the spread of COVID-19 is still at the leap, the whole people are focusing on getting food, groceries and medicines. Therefore, buying a very own car during this pandemic is practically not possible.

This is where car rentals services come into play. Many car rental brands have cut down their prices as well as offering flexible subscription plans as per the needs of customers.

Plans ranges form renting a minimum of 1 month to 36 months without hiking up the price. Leasing cars has never been more convenient with nominal rental costs that are free of repairs and extra expenses for your personal car.

Customer and Employee Satisfaction

A business is nothing without a customer. By embracing the latest state of art technology such as IoT, Artificial intelligence and VR Car rental brands are allowing customers to reach them every way as possible.

This includes features like text messages, video calls, emails; chatbots which helps them reach them so the customers can clear any types of queries. In addition, Employees are backbone of the business also a key element in the success of any business. Brands are looking out for employees in every way by providing regular salaries, medical expense, paid leaves, salary increment etc.

Conclusion

Despite the world is being at a tough time dealing with deadly coronavirus, the pandemic will pass sooner or later for the time being we can clearly say renting a car is an easy, safe and better option.

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We Still Need Feminism

Taylor Abouzeid

California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

The need for feminism is not dead. As a scholar, I would like to note the temporal nature of this sentiment. In an era of CVOID-19, a pandemic by global standards, feminism can seem far away to privileged individuals like myself. Simultaneously, I would like to examine the eternal qualities of my statement. When watching Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (Demetrakas et al., 2018), the photographs of these liberated women brough about a visceral reaction to those included in the film. It was so clear that by capturing images of freedom these women could reflect on a different time. It made me wonder why these feminist photographs didn’t spark a reminder of today?

One does not have to overlook the significant progress that feminist history has created, to fellow feminists that there is still work to be done. Voices of women are still being silenced, potentially even more so in the current online medium of communication. In 2019 Barker and Jurasz examined the political struggles and protests of feminists across the internet and social media. They write “At such, gender-based abuse online is threatening women’s participatory rights on the internet” (Barker & Jurasz, 2019, p. 102). Within the past decade of internet growth women’s voices have been resilience (Barker & Jurasz, 2019). There is a power behind anonymity in internet culture, and this power often reflects the patriarchy in which it was bread. In this time where media conversations have been so heavily saturated with information regarding the virus, turning a blind-eye to the necessity of feminism has been made easier. 

The feminist fight has not yet been won. I would beg to argue that until complete and total, political, social, and economic equality of all identities have been reached, feminists must continue to fight. In an article written to explore the feminisms of Iraq related to the divisions within the state, Zahara Ali writes “Most of the women activists I interviewed, especially public and media figures, have received death threats or been directly targeted by violence, including car bomb attacks in front of their offices or homes”(2019, p. 53). This speaks to the history of today. Across the world, women do not have the privilege of ignoring the necessity of feminism. Across the world, women continue to fight for their lives every day. Across the world, the time of radicle feminism, mentioned to be of the past in Feminists: What Were They Thinking?, is now. 

We continue to live in an age where the oppression of women can be disguised behind cultural norms. Following the 2011 uprising in Egypt the local feminist agenda saw state-sanctioned change (Allam, 2019). There has been a documentation of the “demobilization of women and their marginalization in parties following major political struggles” (Allam, 2019, p. 370). Allam (2019) notes that with the intermediate institution of governments, the transitional phases often exclude women, acts based on years of feminist efforts are given non-representative names, and even as “the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party to power, women secured only eight elected seats in the parliament” (p. 369-370). As many women have seen their fight for feminism continue, I fear that the crisis stemming from the pandemic outbreak may serve as a means to by-pass the monumental feminist needs still not being met by society. 

Reflecting on the feminist literature present at our current moment, the extraordinary time line of progress can be excavated. In an article titled “How to be in fashion and stay an individual”: American Vogue, the Origins of Second Wave Feminism and Mass Culture Criticism in 1950s America, Anna Lebovic takes a fine-toothed comb through the pages of American Vogue to highlight the paradigm shift of the magazines reflection of feminist ideals (2019). Lebovic concludes her piece by stating that “Postwar issues of American Vogue therefore not only reversed an earlier dynamic whereby women’s magazines laboured to suppress women’s politicization and personal and professional autonomy, but, more broadly, also remind us how consumer and popular culture has often been a fertile space where the feminist cause has been incubated, cultivated and sustained within the United States” (2019, p. 190). Further, the modern Netflix television show Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has been critically examined as a lens through which White Feminism’s contradictory intensions can be unmasked (Oh, 2020).

The need for feminism is not dead. There is still a fight on our hands. The inspiring reflections of the prolific women of Netflix’s documentary Feminists: What Where They Thinking? speak to a contemporary necessity of feminism. Finding a space and a voice in the context of CVOID-19 is labyrinthine in itself, but I believe that the potential consequence of forgetting feminism serves as motivation enough to breath life back into the movement. We still need feminism.

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