Author: tlhiggins1

I did not find the video game “Gone Home” very interesting. I am not that much of a gamer so It was very hard for me to be entertained by it. For the most part, I thought it was going to be a game of horror because of how the scene was darkened. I was anticipating a jump scare. Most video games that I have seen people play have been more of action, but the Gone Home video game was more calm and detailed with the letters.

In “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Audre Lorde speaks about how she had to have surgery and how the silence in her waiting period was strenuous for her. She further elucidates how her team of nurses and doctors were encouraging her and rooting for her. It made her feel better and broke the ice a bit. The silence was turned into a good thing in the end.

A song that truly cheers me up is “All in His Plan” by P.J. Morton. I suggest everyone listen to it. It is a very calming tune.

• Keywords: oppression, women, race

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Keywords: sex, oppression, sexuality

In this week’s text for the Combahee River Collective Statement, something that was mentioned that stood out to me; “we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppressions and see as our particular task the development of integrated practice.” I believe this was the most highlighted piece of text throughout this article because it shows that so many groups in today’s society is still oppressed no matter the race, religion, sex, sexuality, etc.

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

In Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference says, “For us, increasingly violence weaves through the daily tissues of our living, – in the supermarket, in the classroom, in the elevator, in the clinic and the schoolyard…” The text explains how black women and men are oppressed. The questions, the odd looks, the deadly traffic stops. We as black women have to go through so much in this society because of racism and sexism.

Connection

For my connection, I used Tupac’s Keep Ya Head Up. In this song, he stated “and if we don’t, we’ll have a race of babies that will hate the babies. And since a man can’t make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.” I love this quote because it speaks volumes to society about how black women should stay positive throughout the things life throws at us. Never allow the world to change or alter us just because we are oppressed.

Question:

How do you go about your everyday life dealing with oppression?

The article “Prism of Gender,” states the notion that the world sees gender as two and only two genders; masculine and feminine. There are only two sexes; female and male, two sexualities heterosexual and homosexual; so forth and so on. The western culture has a strict belief about sex, gender, sexual orientation, etc. They believe that pink is for girls and women, and blue is for boys and men.

Throughout the article “Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism,” I found that the quote “live and let live” really resonated with me. It just made me think about how people should just live their lives and not worry about others and what they do.

Androgynous is more so about men wanting to be free in themselves and have an appearance of a woman.

Do you care about what society thinks of you? Why or why not?