{"id":5,"date":"2025-08-30T23:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/?p=5"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:45:16","slug":"and-the-work-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/2025\/08\/30\/and-the-work-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And the work begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/files\/2025\/08\/image-4-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/files\/2025\/08\/image-4-1024x712.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/files\/2025\/08\/image-4-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/files\/2025\/08\/image-4-768x534.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/files\/2025\/08\/image-4.png 1081w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe my program is nearing its end and that I\u2019m beginning work on my MA project. In addition to my studies, I work full-time as a Communications Specialist at Comcast, a Fortune 35 media and technology company. In my role, I\u2019ve observed clear differences in how Black women navigate professional spaces compared to others. My project may take the form of a documentary exploring how Black women experience Eurocentric beauty standards and code-switching in corporate America. I will interview women who have faced these pressures and connect their stories to theoretical frameworks like Charles Horton Cooley\u2019s \u201clooking glass self\u201d and Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw\u2019s concept of intersectionality as it relates to Black feminism. I look forward to exploring new concepts that connect to this project in the thesis paper that will accompany the documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I searched for Christina Brown\u2019s documentary that she completed in the last cohort of this program because I believe our projects could be similar in format. While I listed above that my project may be a documentary, it could also be a podcast. While I couldn\u2019t find Christina\u2019s project to properly site, I did see Matt Kasznel\u2019s (2018) podcast documentary. This project influenced me to upload the audio from my video so it could also serve as an audio podcast on streaming platforms. While Kasznel\u2019s project was on sports, I could follow a similar flow of including background music throughout, sound effects, and excerpts from interviews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources: Kasznel, M. (2018). <em>Master\u2019s doc mixdown<\/em> [Audio podcast]. SoundCloud.<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkasznel_tu\/masters-doc-mixdown?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkasznel_tu\/masters-doc-mixdown\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkasznel_tu\/masters-doc-mixdown<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to believe my program is nearing its end and that I\u2019m beginning work on my MA project. In addition to my studies, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/2025\/08\/30\/and-the-work-begins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And the work begins!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/aniyahpinkney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}