For the second version of my intervention, I decided to incorporate all the suggestions and opportunities that where evidenced from the first one.

• Instead of an activity ment to be done in their individual time, I made it collective with guided support.
• Instead of focusing solely on the environment and material objects, I shifted the focus to lived experiences of the normalization of misogynistic gender norms.
• I also added more guidance and closure to the experience.

To test this, I invited a couple of Colombian women I met through my colombian scholarship program to engage with my intervention.

I set up a large piece of cardboard with categories representing different layers of a person’s life, such as education, health, relationships, public space, and work. I then asked them to flag and describe instances where and how they felt marginalized in these specific areas. My main goal was to facilitate a conversation that led to a visualization of these red flags and create a kind of map showing where these issues occur in someone’s environment, as a collective conversation.

As we began, more questions arose:

• What do the participants need to do once we’ve flagged everything? What’s the purpose behind it? Simply flagging didn’t seem enough.
• The instructions were still too broad, there are many instances where they felt the gender norms.
• There are likely many things that could be flagged, but there’s no awareness at the moment that these issues could or should be flagged. So, how can they identify them?
• How to deal when the topics and conversations are too triggering for someone.

Once again, the feedback allowed me to see the gap in my proposial and with it came the the idea of creating a board game to facilitate conversations about gender normalization. I wanted to make it a visual and interactive activity for identifying these issues. The image of red flags spread across the space reminded me of games like Risk, and I thought this could be an interesting way to approach the topic.

As I kept on thinking about this new idea, I realized I needed the insight of a psycologist into how to approach this conversations with the entire respect and ethics it requieres. Laura Vega, the psycologist I talked to, recommended exploring the idea that not every situation is entirely “red” for everyone; there’s a whole spectrum of what people consider normal, depending on their own experiences. However, she noted that having a collective space to process and reflect on these differences could be valuable. Instead of planning a game focused on placing red flags, perhaps it could involve removing them as a way to address and overcome these issues.