Film response

The home alive collection formed because of things that were happening in the city at the time. Things such as rape and assault on women.  They were asking how they were supposed to get home alive with all these rapes and violence happening against women.  They defined self defense as doing as much as they can to defend themselves.  Not just physical self defense but verbal and other ways and anything that keeps them alive.  One of the tensions that came from is was people who knew Mia and they felt as if Home Alive was trying to turn her into a poster child for this and they didn’t like that.  They also faced tensions in the group like long discussions and arguments on topics, one topic being if they should allow men or transgender people in the self defense classes.  Home alive matters because the founders were regular people and they saw an issue and decided to take action, not just stand by and watch others get murdered and raped, they wanted to do something about it.  It also matters because I don’t think that women are taught enough self defense but rather told what to do and what not to do, which should not be the case. I would make a documentary on Tupac Shakur because he tried to make a bigger impact on the world and the communities than many people know, and his impact is stil alive today.