PRIDE'S PURPOSE
ABOUT THE PROJECT
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The Worst and Better Practices in International Humanitarian Aid and Other Program Intervention Studio explores damaging yet widespread programs, purportedly undertaken with the aim of helping disadvantaged people or disaster victims but which do more harm than good. Whether it’s governmental or inter-governmental aid where politics and commerce are the prime motivators, or social enterprise and Corporate Social Responsibility programs where profit is the chief imperative, to well-intentioned but naive amateur clothing and food donation drives – the pervasiveness of such bad practice demands focused attention and action to counter the ignorance surrounding these efforts, and turn worst into better practice.
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This year, 2019, is the 50th anniversary of the the Stonewall Riots in New York City which led to the creation of the annual Pride March. World Pride is coming to NYC to celebrate Stonewall 50. As a response, the Reclaim Pride Coalition has emerged, opposing many of the core elements that have become central components of the Official NYC Pride March. I am a queer person living in NYC and have friends who are deeply involved in Reclaim Pride. Through conversations about the movement, I began to reflect upon my own Pride experiences and question if Pride is effective, and if so, to what goal?
The Stonewall Riots were the catalyst for the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, a political protest. The goal of the march in 1970 was clear, to claim space and rights; however, today the purpose of Pride is less clear. Throughout my queer community, it was evident that there was discontent around the current structure of Pride, but in order to answer whether Pride is effective I realized I need to take a step back and ask: What is the purpose of Pride?
This website reflects my attempt to answer that question through work in this studio and congruent work in a research class, Participatory Media Research.
