By Lacey Robinson, President, Wake Forest University Feminist Majority Leadership Allaince
Before it was even chartered, the Wake Forest University FMLA secured a biweekly opinion column, "FMLA Today," in the campus newspaper, Old Gold and Black. The column has helped boost publicity for the group, show Wake Forest the group’s dedication to promoting a feminist campus and community, and has served as a public outlet for the group’s impressive energy.
Each member of FMLA has the chance to write the column for any week, not merely as a resume-builder but also as a consciousness-builder. At Wake Forest, an uber-conservative, private bubble from the world, this is especially imperative.
Last week’s column highlighted the disturbing disparity between what Americans spend their money on and what the global financial need is. The authors cited an on-campus professor’s project in Africa, legitimized by the endorsement by the Kenyan Prime Minister, that is having trouble raising a relatively meager amount of money to send young girls to school.
In juxtaposition, the authors cited the vast amount of money that Americans spend on pornography each year. While the authors and the rest of the FMLA group are working in conjunction with the professor to write grants and obtain other sources of funding for the project, we have also taken the project one step further by publicizing the underlying problem: the dearth of responsibility and money that Americans are willing to spend on altruism.
As the Wake Forest FMLA advances through its chartering process, it is negotiating the obstacles that the anti-feminists on campus “erect.” The latest powerful article and the ones to come will reveal our fortitude and refusal to yield both to their arrogance and the boorish apathy of the world at large.
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