Author: mrheslep

Gone home was a really interesting game that I don’t usually play. I enjoyed the game though because it was something different that I don’t usually play, going around the house opening different drawers and other things to find out what happened about the family that lived in the house. It kind of felt like a horror game at first but it’s not a horror, you’re just trying to open the truth about the queer teenager and how he and his family’s drama. The Riot Grrrl Movement was a good thing because it brought females together to make more punk music, art, etc. I love punk music and love that type of style, so I love it all and love the fact that women came together and got stronger by making new things. What Lorde was trying to say is that we need to break the silence and speak what’s in your heart, playing the game the teenager needed to tell his family what he’s been going through and what’s within his heart and not hold it back or hide it from everyone.

“Discussions of class differences occurred early on in contemporary feminism, preceding discussions of race. Diana Press published revolutionary insights about class divisions between women as early as the mid-’70s in their collection of essays Class and Feminism. These discussions did not trivialize the feminist insistence that “sisterhood is powerful,” they simply emphasized that we could only become sisters in struggle by confronting the ways women – through sex, class, and race – dominated and exploited other women, and created a political plat- form that would address these differences” – hooks. Through differences and through pain women can come together and face anything. In Riot grrrl women all across America came together and worked their differences to create something beautiful and to create a movement that other women can come together and be a part of. I love playing video games and the only video game that makes me think of this class is Cyber punk, cyber punk is a futuristic video game with people who are half robots. There are females, males, and other sexes and intersexes in the game as well and the main character doesn’t look at anyone any different than everyone else.

Education and friendships are two topics I want to talk about. Education for younger children for different genders and stuff like that is needed because they will meet people and see people or even themselves that aren’t what they are. They need to be taught that there’s nothing bad about anyone that’s a different gender from them and not to be afraid or treat anyone differently that isn’t their gender. That is where the second topic comes into play. Kids and people in general need to make bridges and friendships with anyone instead of hating and discriminating against people who are different from them. I think these topics are a good fit because these are two important topics that need to heard and taught when talking about gender studies.

At the very start of “The Combahee River Collective Statement” the author clearly states what kind of group she’s apart of by saying that black feminism is “the logical political movement to combat the manifold and simultaneous oppressions that all women of color face.” She felt strongly about how black rights movements in the past such as the civil rights and even the black panthers were racist to the female gender. The white woman groups failed to talk about and include black woman experiences in their political talks to the people. The group let their voices out about social change towards black lesbians and all women of color, and just wanted their voices to be heard from the people and other social groups. The group wanted to tell the people about their queer experiences and wanted to liberate black woman in general, “the psychological toll of being a Black Woman and the difficulties this presents in reaching political consciousness and doing political work can never be underestimated.”

“Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” is a strong writing that goes over how women need to unite and fight oppression against the female gender. She talks about her past as a black lesbian woman and talks about her perspective on the world through her eyes and what she’s gone through. My favorite thing about this writing is how she can talk about using people differences to unify people and bring them together, I also like how she explains how one aspect of you doesn’t describe you because if you someone for there one aspect then you can miss all their other valuable aspects, she says it’s a “destructive and fragmenting way to live.” She is an amazing writer because not only can she write stories and writings like this one, but she also adds poems in her work.

“So You Want To Talk About Race,” goes over Ijeoma Oluo’s personal life growing up and how people always made comments about her hair, how she was looked at differently than white people, etc. She got paid differently than everyone else and people started making racist comments towards her. The writing is how she started out making a blog about her problems of being a colored woman and she saw how in her city of Seattle where her “white friends weren’t really her friends and how her neighbors weren’t really her neighbors.” After she talked about her personal life she talked with the audience about race. She talks to the audience about racial oppression and how the people of this country don’t know the actual problem with people and race, and how there needs to be a change, she also tells them about racist and what a racist truly is.

All three of these writing is all about the same thing: black women and their troubles over the years with racial issues with people and oppressions. They are all writing from black women, and they all have some of their personal experiences. Tupac Shakur “Keep Ya Head Up” is a anthem to women but to black women specially to keep their head up and to love their skin even if no one else does. He talks about the issues that are going on in black women’s lives. The song is also dedicated to the memory of Latasha Harlins. Latarsha was a 15-year-old black girl who was shot dead by a Korean store owner. I think this song fits perfectly to the writings because in the writings they all talked about all the troubles they had to go through being a black woman, Tupac tries soothing their pain in music by telling them to keep their head up and to not listen to anyone and to keep going on and doing them.

Differences

equality

oppression

Why do you think black woman were treated worse than everyone else?

The purpose of Kaleidoscope Is to show how gender is in sociology and related fields to show the “construction of gender.” It also goes over three themes(prisms, patterns, and possibilities). Prism is for which gender is shaped, patterns is for which pattern each gender takes, and the last is for the endless possibilities for social change. Readers will learn more about themselves and there relationships with other people. Theorizing Difference from Multicultural feminism has similarities with kaleidoscope, it’s mainly about sexual orientation, racial identity, physical ability, and places. The song Androgynous is a song that spoke for thousands of people hoping for gender relations to get better.
There’s a movie I watched a while ago called “Call me by your name” which was about a younger guy and a older guy of the same gender falling in love and not caring about what other people thought about them.
Complex
Deviation
Gender construction
Do you think there’s a difference between friendships between a man and a man, man and a women, or women and a women?