Internship Applications will open in March 2022. To send an inquiry : actionshero@blanknoise.org
List of ongoing research projects for intern applicants to consider.
Project 1: Campus Climates
Campus Climates is an ongoing research and community building project that documents student-led protests or “campus uprisings”, in response to victim blame, rape culture, and patriarchy on campus, across regions and geographies. The project is an ongoing effort to recognise a global and local climates of resistance to sexual harassment and sexual violence on campus. The research spotlights the shifting history of campus climate up to the current date. http://www.blanknoise.org/actionsherocampus
The research and community building criteria for this internship project includes-
Identifying & updating the current metadata archive with student-led protests in response to patriarchy, sexual harassment and/or victim blame.
The project involves identifying and inviting student leaders to share their narratives of student resistance in their own words and voice. The intern will therefore create both primary and secondary knowledge.
Creating secondary knowledge based on publicly available information via news reports.
Creating primary knowledge in close association with the persons who led/witnessed or participated in protests that are being narrated.
Research includes gathering forms of evidence, documents and/or visuals obtained from the movements themselves.
This project is also a method to build a community of student allies. As an intern, your role is to be the researcher- story gatherer. Student leaders, protest witnesses and protest participants are the storytellers. The storyteller is neither the subject nor an informant. This is a collaborative process, a process of building Action Sheroes.
The research should be inclusive of caste, sexuality, region (rural and urban), religion, and expand on the language and tones of dissent.
Intern applicants are required to submit a 250 word statement for their internship engagement.
Previous Action Shero Intern Aditi Mazumdar has worked on documenting 20 student-led protests/ movements. Her contribution has informed an upcoming podcast series called Campus Climates. Your work will contribute extensively to the podcast series.
Project 2: Campus Patriarchy Data
A compilation and analysis of hostel rules and dress codes amongst 100 colleges in India.
The research criteria includes
The colleges should be both government and private.
The colleges should be both all girls and across gender. The colleges should be in both rural and urban India.
The Campus Patriarchy Data should be a just representation.
All of the research will be added to a Campus Patriarchy Data, for public knowledge.
The intern’s efforts will include research, mapping, digital storytelling. Additionally, the intern could also examine and research the shifting history of dress codes and hostel timings in India.
Intern applicants are required to submit a 250 word proposal for a media/research or both outcome from the internship engagement. The research could conclude with forms of publications including a data visualisation map, documents as evidence, audio podcast and interviews, academic paper. We see the internship process as a form of community building, i.e. connecting with students on campuses, and building new solidarities.
The intern will be recognised as one of the collaborators in the long process of building the Campus Patriarchy Data project within the I Never Ask For It mission. This is an ongoing collaborative research project, built and led by multiple collaborators, mostly through internship and classroom engagement. The intern is required to step in the project for a period of three months and build it.
Project 3: Oral Herstories Podcast
The project interviews past Action Sheroes, Theyroes, Heroes, individuals who have contributed to Blank Noise between 2003 and 2019. Blank Noise is the story of a growing community.
Skill sets: audio recording, editing, publication.
Project 4: I Never Ask For It Archive.
Working on the I Never Ask For It mission in the following ways:
Archiving garments and their audio testimonials.
Research and data analysis on the iterations of I Never Ask For It at Blank Noise.
Details to be updated.
Project 5: Building I Never Ask For It Allies.
I Never Ask For It relies on being a co created mission.
The interns joining this project will work towards building local, national, and international allies towards the I Never Ask For It project.
Nature of work: research, outreach, data and analysis.
