The Skinny On This Is My Body: Filmmmaking As Empowerment Intervention and Activism
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the course of one academic year (2005/2006), I worked in a Montreal, Canadian all-girls’ high school as a critical media literacy and video production teacher wearing a researcher’s hat and invited my 16-year old students to explore personal experiences as starting points for making meaningful, critical, and transformative media. The film called This Is My Body [click on title to view video]— distributed by the National Film Board of Canada and accompanied by a Teacher’s Guide—is a video collage of my students’ film work who through research and documentary video production explore issues related to media influence, peer pressure, body image, eating disorders, self-injury, boyfriends, sexuality, and parenting. In this paper, I introduce the arts-based empowerment intervention methodology that facilitated the girls to become researchers and filmmakers of their lives, and I share one student’s pedagogical journey to shed light on how the girls used filmmaking to actualize inner wellbeing and inspire social action. This is My Body video
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it