Day 8 was a very emotional day as I didn't realize how suppressed my feelings were from this reading

"From March 2020 to December 2021, 6,506 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander women were reported to Stop AAPI Hate; the actual number is likely far greater. " - Reading the article from the nation was very very sad to see that Asian Americans aren’t being respected and treated even as human beings that people think that hate crimes against them in such a negative aspect as rape is just so utterly disgusting and even in the current times were living in with Covid to have a president publicly announce that it is a Chinese disease allowed more people to blame Asian Americans for bringing Covid here which is completely 110% false just as quick as word of mouth can spread over something extremely negative they think that it’s OK to physically harm them because they know that they’re able to overpower them it’s absolutely disgusting and inhumane

"The point is not that the shelter's image of empowerment is empty, but rather that it was imposed without regard to the dis-empowering consequences for women who did not match the kind of client the shelter's administrators imagined. And thus they failed to accomplish the basic priority of the shelter movement-to get the woman out of danger." I completely agree with his statement, I think race, background, current financial situation makes no different, help is help and everyone is entitled to it and its an universal right

"In focusing on its own agenda and failing to explore why this woman did not cooperate with prosecutors, the program diminished this woman, communicating, however subtly, that she was responsible for her own victimization." I often see this a lot as I have experienced it myself and on shows like law & order, doing this, making the women relive that moment or blame her for the occurrence escape the rapist or offender the accountability he needs to have

"structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes our actual experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women. " - This was a lot of unpack here, this is such a hot topic amongst relationships. There is definitely a different outcry for white women who have been abused by their significant other, the amount of support and resources that are available to them in quite interesting. As oppose to women of color who are not other encouraged to stay with their partners to keep the family together, there is a financial and educational barrier that they may not be able to suffice without that person, it is extremely interesting to unpack.

"Moreover, ignoring differences within groups frequently contributes to tension among groups, another problem of identity politics that frustrates efforts to politicize violence against women." - I saw this statement and one agree wholeheartedly about it, and I feel that the main reasons are many other cultures especially westerns cultures are dominated by men and looks to women as possessions, child bearers and beings of sexual attractions. they are not given many values or worth outside of the home. For those two cultures to come together and defend their background it would then suggest the root of the tension