Watch the Ted Talk given by Cameron Russell. First try to answer the general questions,
then watch again and go for the detailed questions. See if you can answer at least six of
the detailed questions. Number 13 is the bonus!
looks aren'teverything
General questions:
1. What is her reason for giving this talk?
2. Why does she change clothes on stage?
3. Why is she showing a picture of black people?
4. She says that 'being fearless is being honest'.
Why does she say this?
Do you think
she is fearless and honest here?
Detailed questions:
1. When she is putting on the skirt, what does she say about Twitter?
2. What does she think the audience (= public) will do when she is putting on her
sweater?
3. What are the qualities she mentions of a female fashion model?
4. What does she mention as aspects of her legacy ?
5. According to a research only few American models are non-white. How many are
they, or what percentage of the total number of models?
6. Why does she mention the 'ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet'? What makes the
example funny?
7. Why is she showing the picture of the man who won the lottery?
8. She was still very young when the first picture of her as a model was taken. How do
we know she was young?
9. She mentions a long list of (groups of) people who build up a 'construction' of her.
Who does she mention?
10.What sort of 'free stuff' is really important to her? Why did she get the things she is
giving as examples?
11.What exactly does she say about the picture of the black and Latino kids?
12.What are her two answers to the question 'What is it like to be a model?'
13.What does she say about her now 'unpacking the legacy of gender and racial
oppression'?
14.According to her, what is the take-away to this talk?
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