Summary Of Sister Outsider '

In the readings and video presented in week 3, I think, that each one’s main theme was about gender, race, age, intersectionality, and the traditional cultures that people were raised in. In Sister Outsider, where Audre Lorde discussed age, race, class, and sex, she states that within the women’s movement today, white women focus upon their oppression as women and ignore differences of race, sexual preference, class, and age. She talks about the struggles of colored women in the todays society and lists examples like the literature of colored women, how women of color are the lowest paid wage earners in America, that they are targets of abortion and sterilization abuse, and homophobia among black women. In Borderlands La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua she explains her culture and how females were supposed to be subordinate to males and how she chose a different route, entering the world by way of education and career and becoming a self-autonomous person. She talks about how society says that someone cannot be both genders and about the fear of going back home due to her differences she chose against her native culture like homosexuality. In both the video and article, they talk about intersectionality and issues revolving around women of color. In the video presented by Kimberle Crenshaw, she talks about police brutality and how black women who were abused were not acknowledged like many of the black men in recent years.