The day after the election (Wednesday November 9, 2016), I had only one class, Psychology of Women. Waking into class that day was a little surreal. I did not know what to think, what to expect from the class but I knew something was going to happen. And I think everyone had the same feeling. There was little to no talking, and even if there was, it was whispers between friends about what had happened the night before. As we took our seats we were all on edge about the class, what is the professor going to say? Are we going to talk about what happened? Are we going have a class discussion about implication of a Trump presidency? Are we going to have an opportunity to speak our minds? Are we going to talk about whats the implication on women, minorities, the LGBTQ community, etc., and those with intersectional identity? No one knew the answer, which made the anxiety in the room increase.
Biases
FYI: My uterus does not determine my strength.
I’m carrying a relatively heavy box, but its weight is nothing I can’t handle. However, perhaps I showed some sign of strain that would cause this man to come over to me and take the box. Continue reading
Time norms
Ever since we started reading “Feminist, queer, crip” I have been doing a lot of self reflection as well as asking myself a lot of questions that don’t have easy answers.
Disabling a Nation
After the results of 2016 presidential elections, many people seem to be nervous of what the future holds. Some group of people fear that they will be deported, some fear that their culture and/or religion will be targeted, and some fear their skin color will become even more of a bigly “issue” than before. Keeping this in mind, and relating this situation to Douglas Bayton’s article. One can argue that Trump’s victory has disabled or is going to disable variety of minority groups in the United States. Continue reading
There’s a Vagina in my Videogame!
Hey everyone, I’m going to talk about videogames again except this time there will be 1000% more genitals than the last post. Why is that? Well, hyperscale games developer/publisher Ubisoft has put vaginas in their new game. Not only that, but penises too. Shocking. Continue reading
Break the Internet
** please watch this short clip before reading the blog**
LADIES , LADIES , LADIES! THIS IS HAPPENING! AND I LOVE IT! Continue reading
I Need You To Survive
In this world there are good guys , and there are bad guys. That’s what the movies and television shows tell us. There is always a hero! Then reality hits. Sometimes there are no happy endings , just fewer villains. When watching these heroic figures on TV , you’ll see them having trouble defeating the biggest “bad guy ” in the world. Then the writers like to throw in a twist. Just when you thought the evil side has been defeated. They come back stronger than ever! Continue reading
What does an Immigrant Look Like?
After the 2016 General Election in the United States, the tensions between two economically distinct economies have started to rise in the public consciousness. In effect, the perception of minorities, impairments, and any deviation from the cis white heterosexual agenda has been challenged in terms of their acceptance within an American ecosystem and structure.
But I like this show mom!
As a 90’s baby I look back at the old cartoons and listen to old hits, reminiscing the good ole days. I joke around with the children at my job, telling them how the best shows were on cartoon network . I expressed that my favorite shows were the Power Puff Girls, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter laboratory , and other hit TV series.
As I continued to share my stories, one kid goes “I like Loud House”. Of course I did not know what he was talking about , but another child replies ” It’s that Gay show! My father said I cannot watch it”. Then it clicked. I remember this being a controversial topic on Facebook before the shows premier. The show contains a married, biracial , Gay, male couple that has a child.
In this blog I will explain what makes this show inappropriate .
Point #1 It goes against the social norm : How dare you show a child who is the product of the american dream two men together! That’s absurd ! How dare we show children that there is more to life than just mommy and daddy. Boys cannot be feminine ! They must be rough. If my child see’s this he will not be the man I want him to be! (sarcasm)
Point #2 STICK WITH YOUR OWN RACE! : How dare we promote outside our race ! ( Sarcasm)
Point #3 THIS GOES AGAINST OUR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS ! : who cares.
Point #4 How can you reproduce if your gay : Well if there’s a will there’s a way……. who cares
At the end of the day no one said you had to be gay, but just respect them as humans. The world must embrace change! Whose to say your way of living is right!? If anything I see it as this, we are letting people finally be themselves. Many people have been killed, have been shunned, have killed themselves,or have had something tragic done to them because they were considered ” not normal” ( Much like blacks were considered way back when but I shall not go there 😀 ). Now we have same sex marriages, Tv shows, Gay parenting, etc! All of these things that were considered abnormal are now part of our norm and should be! At the end of the day we are people. Accept it!
Halloween for me and Halloween for you
Halloween is one of the most popular, semi-significant holidays for people of all ages because of its openness to all genders, races, classes, and sexual orientations. It is a time for everyone to have fun whether it be going door to door asking strangers for tasty treats or drinking so much that you fall off of your feet. But for others it may be a time of difficulty because of the criteria that it demands from the group of people who go out and drink. Long ago are the days when we could get away with wearing a scary or ghoulish outfit and go out with our friends. Now, a certain expectation of body exposure is means of attire. This has the potential to create certain barrier for certain people, specifically transgender people. A friend of mine, who’s name due to privacy and respect will not be shared, and who is fairly popular at UMBC, was stressed out about his attire because it wasn’t able to express her body the way that she had wanted it to be expressed to the world. A side note, bodies are our ways of communicating in the world and a person felt that because her body was not what she expected it to be, and exposing costume created a feeling of disapproval and dissatisfaction. In order to take away some of the stress I reminded her that it does not matter how people understand your bodies message to be, but rather to fully understand it yourself and have people who are close to you be the ones to genuinely understand your bodies message and the way you wish to be perceived.
