{"id":34,"date":"2018-02-12T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T14:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2018-04-21T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T23:13:44","slug":"log-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/data-collection-logs\/log-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Log 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, Kayli and I completed our final interview and will begin editing on Sunday. \u00a0Our final interview went incredibly well. We interviewed Anu, who has an active presence in the fashion scene on campus. \u00a0In comparison to the other interviews, she had the most prepared and thought out answers. She talked in depth about fashion\u2019s connection to race, class, gender, and sexuality. \u00a0Unlike our other respondents, she was adamant that fashion can be oppressive, but also creates space for acts of resistance and change. As the only queer, black woman that we interviewed, she was marginalized by many of the identities that we were asking questions about. It has been really interesting to see how few of the people that we interviewed actually identified their fashion as resistance. \u00a0After talking more about how their fashion resisted the norm, most respondents asserted that there were elements of resistance, but also stressed their privilege. Our research before the interviews predominantly said that millennials are using fashion as resistance. This has proven much more complicated, but a point that Anu agreed with. It seems as though relating fashion to resistance relied heavily on respondent privilege or interpretations of privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been thinking about this question of authenticity that was raised in a comment on my last log. Authenticity is so elusive when it comes to fashion, yet definitely a way in which individuals interpret their identity and a way that people judge others. It seems as though many might perceive fashion as resistance only when it is \u201cauthentic.\u201d For example, Nick\u2019s interview came across as less authentic than Isaac\u2019s because, although both dressed in ways that would be considered gender-fluid, Isaac was actually beginning to think about his gender and sexuality as fluid. \u00a0Nick played his clothing off as something that was comfortable and easy. For two people that appear very similar, Isaac seemed to be using fashion as more of resistance because it seemed to be a display of his \u201cauthentic\u201d personality. In reality, this is a very shallow way to interpret this information. Understandings of authenticity are often conflated with biases about certain identities. Perceptions of authenticity are extremely relevant, and I think a topic that we will try to weave in. However, it will also be important for us to understand our bias in interpreting individual authenticity. What goes into our consideration of fashion as resistance? Identity certainly seems to be a huge factor. <\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, it is difficult to say what our final findings will be. \u00a0We are going to rewatch all of the interviews and visually code them by race, class, gender, sexuality, resistance, oppression, and potentially a few other codes. \u00a0Our interviews have been conceptually diverse. We do not want to force a conclusion, so we need to find ways for our documentary to embrace contradictions and diversity, while having a clear point. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, Kayli and I completed our final interview and will begin editing on Sunday. \u00a0Our final interview went incredibly well. We interviewed Anu, who has an active presence in the fashion scene on campus. \u00a0In comparison to the other interviews, she had the most prepared and thought out answers. She talked in depth about … Continue reading “Log 4”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}