generation y

The Young and The Feckless: An Interview with Refuse the Silence's Morgane Richardson

Social Commentary post by J Maureen Henderson on May 21, 2010 - 9:16am; tagged college, college activism, feminism, generation y, millennials, morgane richardson, refuse the silence, The Young and The Feckless, women of color.

I stumbled across Morgane Richardson’s Refuse the Silence project via a link on Twitter. Immediately, it made me think of a discussion in the comments section of an earlier Y&F post about where the stories and conversations around the non-archetypical Millennial experience were and the need to bring attention to these stories as a means of fleshing out and adding dimensions to the (at present, pretty flat) media portrait of Gen Y. There are interesting people out there doing interesting, culturally significant work that has nothing to do with selling us luxury cars (I wish this was a joke) or advising us on how to leverage our blogs into a middle management future; they should get a bigger spotlight.