ABSTRACT
Nancy Chang, who currently serves as the Executive Director of Reel Grrls (an award-winning media education program designed to teach young female-identified filmmakers media literacy and media production), joined forces with Laura Rattner, a scholar of girls’ media, to reimagine ways in which Reel Grrls could better reach marginalized young women. They recount their effort in “Is a Feminist Lens Enough? The Challenges of Going Mobile in an Intersectional World.” According to Chang and Rattner, youth media programs that seek to reach students with limited time and resources need to provide more opportunities for young people to access their programs not only closer to where they live or go to school (both in the literal, physical senses and in the conceptual or cultural senses of proximity) but also in discrete workshop sessions. This allows them to focus less on a polished product that might result from such programs over an extended period of time and more on the processes that will encourage both learning from short-term workshops and excitement and enthusiasm for returning to future iterations of the program.
