Author: detate

After watching Gone Girl on youtube, I enjoyed watching this game’s gameplay. At first, I was skeptical, but it all turned out well. I initially dismissed it because I assumed it was a horror game, but once I realized it was a story-based game with numerous plot points, I was hooked. I wish there were more games like this. I fall asleep listening to the soundtrack when watching it on YouTube. The sweetness and low-point anxiety that slowly rises and then sinks complement each other well. This is an excellent game that surprised me. We need more games like this.

“Riot Grrrl Manifesto” by Kathleen Hanna

“Us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our ways,” she wrote in 1991 in the Riot Grrrl Manifesto. Because we want to make it easier for girls to see/hear each other’s work. Not only because of its feminist, anti-capitalist politics, the Riot Grrrl movement feels like one of the last true revolutions in rock and punk. As Polyphonic explains in his short music history video, Riot Grrrl was one of the last major events in rock music before the internet. And it’s even more exciting because it all started with women in the punk scene having a right to complain. Bands and their fans were predominantly male, and sexual harassment was common.

Research Essay Topics:

After Brain Storming on different topics, the topics that I have decided to do is to talk about mental health and possibly gender identity. I am thinking about how some people’s gender identity affects their mental health because I know there is a lot to go through. Some people don’t know how to act and bully others because they identify with something they don’t agree with. And doing this can affect people’s mental health because of all the online bullying.

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (Lorde)

I learned something from reading Lorde’s text this week. In the stirring essay Women Redefining Difference, women are urged to band together, create a strong movement, and identify oppressions beyond sexism. Lorde accomplishes this by speaking from a black lesbian perspective, which sheds light on issues that have gone unnoticed and dispel many myths and assumptions that both black and white women hold. Lorde explains how class and race are frequently linked with producing various forms of literature, outlining some issues that sustain a flawed system of handling differences. Poetry, which Lorde claims many people consider to be a less severe or rigorous art form, contrasts with prose. Lorde’s identity, which she reveals in this text, Lorde’s identity is a complex amalgam of many various elements, as she explains here. In this particular instance, the inclusion of a poem at the end of the prose demonstrates the author’s distaste for restrictions on her writing and the way she presents herself in general. Lorde writes in the passage that others frequently encourage her to showcase one aspect of her identity and give it an accurate representation of who she is as a whole. One of Lorde’s main points is that everyone has been taught to react to difference with “fear and loathing” and to deal with it.

The Combahee River Collective Statement

From what I learned about reading, this is that Between 1974 and 1980, a Black Feminist Lesbian group called the Combahee River Collective operated. They collectively joined forces to develop the Combahee River Collective Statement, a key document in developing contemporary Black Feminism. This intersectional group was founded because they felt that neither the feminist movement nor the civil rights movement adequately addressed the needs of Black women and lesbians. They have been working on defining and clarifying their politics during that time and conducting political work within our own group and in collaboration with other progressive movements and organizations. The broadest summary of our political philosophy at the moment would be that we are actively committed to fighting against heterosexual, sexual, and racial.

 

Momo Pixel , Hair Nah

Hair Nah is a fun game that is video game about a black woman tired of people touching her hair. The game is played via motion captured without using joysticks and buttons. I feel like this game shows what black women are going through compared to white women because white women’s hair is seen as normal, so they had it easier because black women’s hair was different, so their hair was seen as nappy.

Keywords- Feminist, Feminism, Oppression

Question: Did this week help you understand the struggles that black women go thought?