Hello readers!
If you're reading this- then thank you! This project has, in many way, pushed me out of my comfort zone and I appreciate you all reading and supporting us on this journey! Our goal with this project was to make a fun and exciting blog about travel, while seemlessly weaving in empowering messages about female political leaders. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea how successful we were in any of those goals. However, I really hope you gained something from this, as I certainly did.
One of the biggest challenges I've faced in writing this blog is understanding YOU, the reader. This may sound trivial, but I struggled with this in many ways. For one, I don't remember nearly well enough what it was like to be a female young adult. When thinking of topics to write about, it was easy to jump to stereotypical assumptions about what all of you (as girls) would like. I challenged myself to go beyond that and ended up basing a lot of my posts based on what I (a not very girly-girl) found interesting. The topics, often related to the outdoors, were intentionally gender neutral in an attempt to not alienate anyone in a readership with a wide range of interests. Again, I don't know if I was at all successful in this attempt.
During this process of understanding the readers, I also ran into the problem of balancing writing about my own beliefs about what is important in empowering young females and considering how some readers may disagree with me on these beliefs. In one blog post I raised a point that was seen by some parents as controversial and age-inappropriate. By discussing this with my class I was able to understand both sides of the argument but ultimately decided to stand up for what I believed in. After all, writing about empowered female leaders for so many weeks had to rub off eventually!
So, I hope you all feel newly inspired both to explore the world and by your own potential to lead it. I wish you the best of luck!
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