For this assignment‚ I read Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood‚ Identity‚ Love‚ & So Much More by Janet Mock. Janet Mock is a trans woman of color who grew up in poverty in Hawaii and has since become a writer‚ activist‚ and spokesperson for the queer community. Redefining Realness is her first book‚ and she has since written another that picks up where this one leaves off‚ in her early twenties. Reading this memoir provided me with an intimate and clear portrayal of what life can look like
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SOC 212: SEXUALITIES SPRING 2013 • T TH 12:30PM-1:45PM • 2LCC C003 Instructor: Ray Sin Teaching Assistant: Jessi Holzman Office: 4126C BSB Office: 4061 BSB Email: rsin2@uic.edu Email: jholzm2@uic.edu Office Hours: Mon 1pm-2pm Office Hours: Tues 2pm-3pm This syllabus outlines the content of this course and my expectations of you for the semester. This is a very important course resource‚ so please read through it carefully
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struggle. I think bell hooks’ work is a great example of how she was able to challenge feminist groups and successfully provide a valid reason that they should seriously consider gender’s relation to race‚ class‚ and sex‚ a concept coined as ‘intersectionality’. hooks makes a great point‚ in which she directs to all people—regardless of gender‚ by covering the significance of pushing for greater male
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While Greenberg‚ Grekul‚ and Nelson report on the social causes that lead Aboriginal youth to become involved in crime‚ Stoneman and Artz seek to demonstrate how young female offenders are treated more harshly than their male counterparts once a part of the youth justice system due to “moral panic” (pg. 173). The common‚ unsubstantiated fear remains that girls are committing more crimes and acts of violence (193). Statistics Canada (2012) reports that in reality‚ female youth account for just 3 percent
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The nation we live in is comprised of many different kinds of people with different kinds of cultures. In a society that is dominated by a system designed to perpetuate white privilege this then leads to the subjugation of certain cultures that do not adhere to the dominant white culture. This subjugation can lead to conflicts that arise when an oppressed population goes unheard. Becoming aware of this and trying to actively disrupt and challenge this system is immensely difficult (Xiong‚ 2017).
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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Common Element of Oppression Many people from many identities experience oppression. There are differences between being oppressed and being the oppressor. To experience oppression means be a part of a minority group that experiences mistreatment that results in feeling less than others who uses power and privilege. Some examples of systems of oppression include racism‚ sexism‚ heterosexism‚ and classism. Dominant groups‚ which are likely to be the oppressors are enabled by many systems that exert
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The client‚ American University’s School of Communication (SOC) Diversity Committee‚ aims to create an atmosphere that supports and encourages diversity within the school’s student body‚ staff‚ academic programs‚ and service. To do so‚ the Committee hosts events for students specifically to improve diversity and inclusion efforts in SOC. However‚ the SOC Diversity Committee has had difficulty with student turnout at its events. In fact‚ the client noted that many SOC students do not know what the
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Often times‚ oppressive assumptions and falsehoods are so entrenched in our society that it is difficult to understand how truly damaging they really are. In order to effectively remove these discriminatory barriers‚ one must carefully examine the primary assumptions and attitudes that support oppression. We live in a society that naturally assumes gender based on the appearance of an individual’s genitals. As a result‚ trans individuals are often labelled “unnatural” or “abnormal”‚ and are often
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to ask questions like “Why did I live in a world where teenage boys stood in the parking lot of the 7-eleven pulling out?” (Coates‚ p. 63). Knowledge and the status positions of college graduate and journalist are essential to unraveling the intersectionality
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