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Baltimore Stories: Narratives and Life of an American City: Kick-off Event
Baltimore Stories: Narratives and Life of an American City: Kick-off Event

This project gathered researchers, scholars, artists, social activists and the local community to discuss narrative, race and power in Baltimore.

Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy, College of Arts and Humanities
New Roles of Music in Protest Movement Narratives
Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural Center 847 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Saturday, June 25, 2016 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Explore the role of music in protest culture and the ways in which music can be used as strategy to create, fuel, or transform narratives.

HOW PINK AND BLUE BECAME GENDER-SPECIFIC
6/6/13

By Mark Wilson, Fast Company

Pink is for girls. Blue is for boys. Of course our society allows exceptions now and again, but imagine showing up to a boy’s baby shower with a pink bib and matching pink shoes. There would be whispers that either you’re nuts or you must not have seen the ultrasound on Facebook.

But things weren’t always this way. Jo B. Paoletti, historian and author of Pink and Blue: Telling the Girls From the Boys, has found that pink and blue designations are extremely recent phenomena. Around the turn of the century, both sexes wore easily bleached white dresses up to age 6, meaning that gender neutral clothing was the norm. Then things slowly shifted.

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