Intro to Project and Ideas on Freedom

For this project, we were looking in to ideas revolving around freedom and liberty.
We watched a documentary about a couple of nudist hikers who went on a long walk through Britain and came across different people with different opinions on what they were doing. The ideas generated from it were mostly questions of 'are we, the privileged, really free?' and 'how has society been able to make us feel so discomforted by something so natural?'

At first I was thinking of going in to an area of freedom such as nudism or gender or even the way we dress but then I thought of going in to something I personally have had an interest for for a while now. I wanted to look in to the people being oppressed within their own areas of belief. In the civil rights movement, where most of the black men were seen as the leaders, the black women still were treated as the supporting wives and mothers. In Islam where the Hajj consists of Muslim people on a pilgrimage to Mecca, coming together in peace and yet women were still seperate in this idea of equality. Most of these issues kept coming back to women and yet I could see that even in the feminist movement most of the cheesy 'girl power' speeches that the mainstream media prioritised was coming from privileged white women. Whether this was because they were more appealing after years of western society's favouritism or simply cos yet again they got there because of their privilege, it was still a hint to the oppression within the movement of poor, LGBTQUA women of colour.

I generated some ideas on this issue and had an idea of people of different beliefs and movements shouting at each other their views whilst the true people that needed the word of God/gender equality/peace between races were sitting on the side, no voice and no help to be heard.

I feel as if this day was a great way to get ideas flowing as it is a subject area I've been quite interested in for a while. I feel that maybe I could have had a wider range of ideas before going so in depth in to one. Maybe a project like this should have been based around some philosophical thinker's works and theories of society's 'freedom'.