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32 Matching Annotations
- Aug 2022
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We should all be feminists,” TED Talk
I think this talk was very interesting, I really enjoyed how she was able to paint a picture between the changes of feminism
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Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Albany: SUNY Press, 1981), Selections TBD. password protected.
For some reason, I cannot seem to annotations on the actual website, but it was a very interesting read and I do agree with many crucial points that Moraga and Anzaldua make.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” TED Talk
This link is not working
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homeground to venture into unknown a nd possibly dangerousterrain.This is her homethis thin edge ofbarbwire.
She is willing to take the risk to leave and face dangerous waters because her situation is worse at home.
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Do not enter, trespassers will be raped, maimed, strangled, gassed, shot.
I think she is showing us the hidden message behind what happens to a trespasser and how it is legal for this to take place.
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The U .S .-Mexican border es una herida abierta where theThird World grates against the first a nd bleeds.
I like the way she says where a third world country grates against the first world country and bleeds as in only the third world country is the only getting harmed and the first world country is unaffected.
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educate men
We need to educate men and women and kids
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Poor and third world women
I feel like women everywhere have become second class citizens despite being in a third world or first world country.
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As women, we have been taught to either ignore ourdifferences or to view them as causes for separation andsuspicion rather than as forces for change.
I very much agree with this, often we are taught to ignore our differences or we are told we are too different to unite
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And yet, I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having beeninvited to comment within the only panel at this conferencewhere the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented.
I don not really understand whether she only partakes in panels related to her or if that is the only place she allowed to comment.
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Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools…” from TBCMB
From my understanding, I annotated the "The bridge called my back" for this day's work.
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500-word statement explain the following:
where would we submit the 500-word statement?
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, intersections of race and gender, of heterosexism, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, all of these social dynamics come together and create challenges that are sometimes quite unique. But in the same way that intersectionality raised our awareness to the way that black women live their lives, it also exposes the tragic circumstances under which African-American women die.
Very much agree with this. Things like these is what creates the challenges in society for minorities.
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Police violence against black women is very real. The level of violence that black women face is such that it's not surprising that some of them do not survive their encounters with police. Black girls as young as seven, great grandmothers as old as 95 have been killed by the police. They've been killed in their living rooms, in their bedrooms. They've been killed in their cars. They've been killed on the street. They've been killed in front of their parents and they've been killed in front of their children. They have been shot to death. They have been stomped to death. They have been suffocated to death. They have been manhandled to death. They have been tasered to death. They've been killed when they've called for help. They've been killed when they were alone, and they've been killed when they were with others. They've been killed shopping while black, driving while black, having a mental disability while black, having a domestic disturbance while black. They've even been killed being homeless while black. They've been killed talking on the cell phone, laughing with friends, sitting in a car reported as stolen and making a U-turn in front of the White House with an infant strapped in the backseat of the car. Why don't we know these stories? Why is it that their lost lives don't generate the same amount of media attention and communal outcry as the lost lives of their fallen brothers? It's time for a change.
I do agree with her about how we do not know about these things because importance is not given to black people and much less importance is given when it is a woman.
** side note: I just figured out how to use the annotations properly hence why the rest of my annotations are on the "Reading" page of our class's site.
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- Jul 2022
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Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), selections. (password protected)
"There is one time I remember, very acutely, still. I was out jogging, just near my home. A man whirled passed on a bike and put his hand up the back of my shorts. He did not stop; he just carried on cycling as if nothing had happened, as if he had not done anything. I stopped, shaking. I felt so sick; invaded, con- fused, upset, angry. I was the only witness to this event; my body its memory. My body its memory: to share a memory is to put a body into words. What do we do when these kinds of things happen? Who do we become? I kept on going. I began jogging again, but it was different: I was different. I was much more nervous. Every time someone came up behind me, I was ready, tense, waiting. I felt differently in my body, which was a different way of encounter- ing the world."
This really stood out to me because I have been a victim of cat-calling and light groping on the subways. It may look like it is nothing but once it is over, you will feel different and you become different. The more it happens, the deeper the effects run afterwards.
still unable to annotate on the reading itself
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Roxanne Gay, “Bad Feminist” VQR, Fall 2012, https://www.vqronline.org/essay/bad-feminist
I do not know how to annotate this on the website it leads me to so I will do it here instead.
"...the right way to be a woman is to be thin, to wear make up, to wear the right kind of clothes (not too slutty, not too prude, show a little leg, ladies), and so on. Good women are charming, polite, and unobtrusive. Good women work but are content to earn 77 percent of what men earn. Depending on whom you ask, good women bear children and stay home to raise them without complaint. Good women are modest, chaste, pious, submissive. Women who don’t adhere to these standards are the fallen, the undesirable. They are bad women." This stood out to me because women are expected to look, and exist a certain way and it is not fair that we have put up with this for so long and we continue to adhere to these "norms."
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We should all be feminists,” TED Talk
This was a very interesting TED talk, I can totally relate to Ngozi about people telling her that she got corrupted by western books because she believes in feminism. Many times I have been told the same thing that my mind has been corrupted by books and the internet.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The Danger of a Single Story,” TED Talk
This was a very interesting TED talk. I agree with her on the "dangers of a single story," part of talk!
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Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), pp 19-65, 163-186, 235-268.
Should this be read for July 18th as part of Day 2?
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Read and annotate: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
This requires a password to access
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The issue here is not whether there are sex-linked biological differences that might affectsuch things as predominant cognitive styles. What is at issue is the place of such research insocial and scientific practice. Sex difference is being placed at the center of activity, as bothquestion and answer, as often flimsy evidence of biological difference is paired up withunanalyzed behavioral stereotypes.
This right here sums it all up, gender is not sex-linked but rather behavior-linked.
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The eagerness of some scientists to establish a biological basis for all gender difference,and the public’s eagerness to take these findings up, points to the fact that we put a good deal ofwork into emphasizing, producing, and enforcing the dichotomous categories of male andfemale.
I feel like because we are always trying to find out the "why" behind everything, we often take the first answer that makes sense or comes up often.
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the brain is veryplastic, changing in response to experience.
Because the brain is very plastic, I believe the stereotypical behavior that differentiate between genders and what we have learned throughout childhood can be very much changed with the right motivation and mindset.
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There is nobiological reason, for example, why women should mince and men should swagger, or whywomen should have red toenails and men should not.
I strongly feel for this because many times we are stopped from doing something simply because our "assigned gender" does not adhere to the picture society has painted for is.
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Gender is not something we are born with, and not something we have, but something we do(West and Zimmerman 1987) – something we perform (Butler 1990). Imagine a small boyproudly following his father. As he swaggers and sticks out his chest, he is doing everything hecan to be like his father – to be a man.
I really do agree with this because girls are taught to be like their mother and boys are taught to be like their father. Gender roles are instilled into us from the second we are born. This also makes us admire idols based on how we think we need to be.
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We all must buildour own definitions of real manhood and realwomanhood, and we’re very pleased to knowpeople who agree with our definitions.
I agree with this whole-heartedly because it is essential to make our own definitions of what real manhood and real womanhood because only we know what we are truly comfortable with.
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1 short 1-on-1 conference with Gwen
Do we email you and schedule a meeting at a mutual time? If so, are we meeting on zoom?
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Get to know your classmatesRead and respond to your classmates’ introductions on the Forum from Day 1. Reply directly to each post–do not start a new topic for your replies.
Do you we have to reply to every single post on the forum? Or can we choose 2-3 post to reply to?
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Course Website, Class discussion forum
Should the wrap-up survey include the first reading by Sara listed on the readings page?
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Discussion Questions Created by
Where and when should we choosing a day to ask the question? Is there a sign-up sheet?
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Each week, 2 students will craft questions about the reading to be answered by their peers on the discussion board. (These are due the day before the class session in question). Everyone will offer questions once. You will choose your day to contribute questions on Day 1. Questions should be posted to the forum *the day before* the date they are assigned for the class. (So questions for Day 3: My Gender Workbook should be submitted by Tuesday, July 19 for class discussion on the forum on the scheduled day of Wednesday, July 20.) **You do not need to post to the forum on the day you submit questions for discussion.
I am not so clear as to what is expected of us for. I was hoping a bit more clarification for this part. Thank you!!
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