Thursday, May 15, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, May 15, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 5 ROAD TRIP From Page 1 cially enjoyed meeting new people in various fields of study around the state and admired how people really pulled out all the stops for the University's travelers. He said the most impactful aspects of the trip were the stops at high schools in Midland and Grand Rapids, where the administrators are working to change the educational climate. "When meeting a lot of people, the first thing they would tell all of us was whether they rooted for our team or Michigan State during the football season, so it became clear that football is generally the first connection for a lot of people when they think about our University," Conger said. 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Anti-government protests broke out in the mining town of Soma, as well as Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, with Prime Min- ister Recep Tayyip Erdogan heck- led as he tried to show concern. Protesters shouted "Murderer!" and "Thief!" and Erdogan was forced to seek refuge in a super- market, surrounded by police. The display of anger could have significant repercussions for the Turkish leader, who is widely expected to run for president in the August election, although he has yet to announce his candi- dacy. Tensions were high as hun- dreds of relatives and miners jos- tled outside the mine's entrance Wednesday, waiting for news amid a heavy police presence. Rows of women wailed uncon- trollably and men knelt sobbing or simply stared in disbelief as rescue workers removed body after body, some charred beyond recognition. One elderly man wearing a prayer cap wailed after he recog- nized one of the dead, and police had to restrain him from climb- ing into an ambulance with the body. An injured rescue worker who emerged alive was whisked away on a stretcher to the cheers of onlookers. Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said 787 people were inside the coal mine at the time of Tuesday's explosion: 274 died and 363 were rescued, including scores who were injured. The death toll topped a 1992 gas explosion that killed 263 workers near Turkey's Black Sea port of Zonguldak. It also left 150 miners still unaccounted for. Although a dedicated pro-choice activist, I have often felt disappointed by the pro-choice movement for its inability to own up to its problematic past, in particular to the politics of Margaret Sanger. Although Sanger and other first-wave feminists made many important contributions to securingwomen's rights - fightingfor the right to vote, increasing access to birth control and information about it - many people don't realize that these gains were rarely extended to less privileged women. In fact, many advances related to birth control came at the expense of people of color and people with disabilities, eugenics being a prime example. While it may be convenient to brush this history under the rug, I believe the movement needs to use Sanger's unforgivable missteps as a learning opportunity. If we don't own our problematic past,. anti-choice groups will. Unfortunately, the root of this problem - the inability to include any but the most privileged voices in feminist discourse - still exists in feminist circles today. First wave feminists, and arguably most femi- nists today, often possess the most privileged identities: white, middle- class, native-born, able bodied. You can't have a radical movement - one that gets at the roots of oppres- sion - if marginalized identities aren't equally, if not more than equally, represented. The negli- gence of oppressed identities other than "woman" renders feminism, even today, as a tool to reinforce racism, ableism and all other forms of oppression. In the reproductive rights move- ment there is still so much emphasis on the ability to prevent reproduction, which centers the concerns of privi- leged women ratherthanthe concerns of women of color whose reproduc- tion has historically been denigrated, abused and manipulated. In other words, the reproductive rights move- ment, with its unyielding focus on birth control and abortion rights, only serves to further amplify privileged voices that have long been heard loud and clear. Instead, feminist activists need to emphasize more and more the vast spectrum of choices - reproduc- tive and otherwise - that people are denied as a result of their oppressed status. We can start by recogniz- ing that parenting is also a powerful choice, one that has consistently been given to the most privileged women while denied to women unable to uphold the hegemony through their genetic code or social status. Students for Choice is trying to do this, but such fundamental change cannot happen overnight. We are end- lessly grateful for the campus climate that welcomes pro-choice activism, as well as the deep support of depart- ments like Women's Studies, Ameri- can Culture, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. We are honored to have received the Women's Studies Department Femi- nist Practice Award, but I cannot deny that we received it to a great degree because of how welcoming our cam- pus is to our beliefs. By virtue of being on a campus where pro-choice beliefs are the norm,we spend much less time talkingoverpeople, tryingto convince them that, contrary to conservative beliefs, women should also have a right to bodily autonomy. Instead, we have the opportunity to move for- ward, to build a better, more inclusive movement, to be self-reflective, to grow. Because of the fairly support- ive climate at the University, we can go beyond condoms and birth control and work towards destabilizing the racismboth in the choice movement as well as in our society as a whole. Our activism is about moving for- ward, not about winning a debate. As Inderpal Grewal and a myriad of other feminist scholars have con- vincingly argued, there is no such thingas aninternationalsisterhood, a universal or essential feminine nature that connects all women. None of us are just women - we are both oppressors and oppressed by members of this group. Calling for this sisterhood erases the very real differences among women generated by our interlocking and diverse social identities, and it does not acknowledge the difficulty, and often impossibility, of working with your oppressor, especially one that is blind to checking their privilege. While a universal sisterhood is an impossibility, reflection is not. By this I mean reflecting about your move- ment, your beliefs, your life. You must understand where political activism comes from and where it will go in the future. Reflect in order to pause, to create the mental energy to make your activism more intentional. And reflect on your own life. In the end, having special or unique experiences is not whatcauses personal or political growth. It's reflecting on the simplest encounters, on something as daily as a birth control pill,that does. Sophia Kotov is an LSA senior. SOPH IA KOTOV|I A theory on growth fetStaying out o the sun felt the long, thin needle reported to have been indoor tan- lar amount for one application pierce my skin, and the ning. Using a tanning bed for the that lasts about week. At expen- local anesthetic stung as first time before age 35 increases sive salons, it can cost upwards it spread a person's risk for melanoma by of $60 for spray tans and full around the 59 percent. Their use continues body makeup. There are at home small dark to climb even as education about products sold at several price mole on my their dangers increases. I can points, but self-applications right arm. distinctly remember disregard- often leaves inexperienced users The derma- ing them before going tanning looking orange and streaky. tologist cut with friends. Regulations on tanning salons off a small The users of these dangerous are disturbingly relaxed. In piece of skin, VICTORIA machines are often young people Michigan, parental permission and put it NOBLE - 74 percent of indoor tanners is required for minors, and must into some are women ages 18-26 - who require eye protection. That's it. sort of vial to are highly susceptible to media I can't speak for others, but as a be sent off for influence. Coupled with the 16-year-old, I regularly tanned testing. About two weeks later, accessibility of tanning salons, it without ever being asked for I got the results. It was called comes as no surprise that there's identification, and my parents Dysplastic Nevi - not skin can- a problem. Tan skin is often a certainly never gave permission, cer, but not normal either. mark of beauty and youthful- But, even if this law was proper- I'm lucky. Each year in the ness in Western culture. While ly enforced, stricter regulations United States, biopsies like mine the media presents images of are in order. The large number of indicate new cases of skin can- tanned, beautiful women, it fails tanning salons makes the task of cer for 3.5 million Americans. Of to inform viewers that these enforcing rules difficult. How- those, 76,690 are invasive Mela- models and actresses don't often ever, economic regulation could noma, an extremely dangerous tan on the beach or at a tan- reduce the externality caused by form of skin cancer that kills one ning booth. Instead, their glow the industry, and save the lives American every 57 minutes. An often comes from a professional of people who would have oth- increasing number of these inci- spray tanner. erwise used the dangerous tech- dences and deaths are among This fits with the disturbing nology. By taxing indoor tanning adolescent girls. trend of media portrayals of fal- Despite widely publicized sified women. Girls are tanned, efforts to combat the disease and stretched, thinned and re-pro- I've decided promote safe sun practices, rates portioned on expensive com- of skin cancer continue to steadi- puter programs. They are made that it's just not ly climb, even as rates of other up with more products and opti- forms of cancer fall. cal illusions than most ordinary worth it. Increased incidence of skin women can afford or find the cancer can probably be partly time to apply on a regular basis. attributed to the thinning ozone This includes the application layer. As more damage is done, of full body makeup, or spray salons, making their prices more more UVB rays penetrate the tans, used to make models and similar to those of other, sub- atmosphere and are absorbed actresses appear tanner. While stitutes, less people would be by our skin. However, the envi- unsafe tanning practices can willing or able to pay for indoor ronment is not entirely to blame. just be added to the long list of tanning sessions, or may buy less Coinciding with the increas- disorders caused by this type of of them. ing damage to the ozone layer distortion of beauty standards, it Further, due to unscrupulous has been, and continues to be, is no less important. Sexualizing media and advertising practices an increase in sun exposure and beautifying women seems and societal pressures, it is unlike- and tanning bed use, especially effective in selling movie tickets, ly that minors can make informed among young women. products of all kinds and attract- decisions on indoor tanning and 90 percent of skin cancers are ing viewers. It's also contribut- skincare. Michigan should join caused by UV exposure. 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