Wonder Woman’s suffrage film on display

HOPE SMITH campus editor hope.smith393@my.tccd.edu

TCC students and staff gathered to watch Wonder Woman unfold under layers of women’s suffrage through the years in the documentary “Wonder Woman! The Untold Story of American Superheroines”.

As one of 25 libraries to receive the Women’s Suffrage Grant from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, SE Campus assistant director of library services Tracy Robinson and public services librarian Anna Hithersay showcased “Wonder Woman! The Untold Story of American Superheroines” on Sept. 14. “We put this program together to get a little bit of a broader picture of empowerment, so not just focusing on politics but also focusing how women are portrayed in media as well.” Robinson said.

Both women who organized the event placed a special emphasis on students learning and thinking about consequences of media depicting women in certain lights.

Wonder Woman’s face was the documentary’s main focus. An ode towards her legacy, it centered on how years of women’s suffrage circled around the heroine and how her character changed throughout history in accordance to how the media wanted her to be depicted.

“As soon as I saw the topic I said ‘well, we have to come,’” SE Spanish teacher Oksana Menirovski said. “Well I’m very excited, and I was always interested in how our role as women has changed, What we are now and how it used to be, what we should do, actually, to move ahead as well, because we still have lots to do.”

Hithersay wanted the attendees to really connect with what’s being portrayed in the documentary, then to have a comprehensive discussion about what they saw and what their experiences have been with empowerment and the portrayal of women in the media. She highlighted this when she introduced the documentary.

To get the audience thinking, Robinson asked the audience questions about how the media views female politicians, how women are See Wonder Woman, page 2