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                           Loud and Proud https://youtube.com/shorts/vjffJyxWPaY?si=aVEguWAVR9uEOxFi             For my project I chose to focus on the lesbian influencers Julie and Camilla, who create short videos about their life. The four elements of their channel that stood out to me were as follow: their wedding videos, their journey of buying and renovating a house, having an IVF/pregnancy, and their responses to hate comments.  The short video I focused on starts by responding to a hate comment. “So obviously I support your lifestyle choices and everything, but do you really have to be so damn loud about it?” in response Julie and Camilla say “yes!” The video then alternates between showing clips of their wedding day and news article clips filled with LBGTQ+ hate.  The Titles of the news articles are:     - Two mo...

     The movie A Fantastic Woman was a significant piece of media that affected my life; the film premiered on March 28, 2017, in Santiago, Chile. The story of the film is based in, “Santiago, Chile. In a dimly lit nightclub, Orlando, the well-off owner of a textile company, locks eyes with hopeful singer Marina, the roughly half-his-age future love of his life. But no one knows what tomorrow has in store for us; after an unforgettable night of passion, Orlando falls gravely ill and dies in the hospital. Now Marina must face the harsh reality; from now on, everything is under intense scrutiny, including Marina's involvement in Orlando's death, their unconventional relationship, and her right to mourn the beloved deceased. But what was Marina's crime?— Nick Riganas ” The film is a social commentary on the oppression of transgender people. Overall, this film made an impact on my life and others' lives around the world.       The film impacted my life by ...

      Throughout the history of film, the depiction of minority groups in media constantly fluctuates due to the majority's cultural and societal norms. A few examples that are depicted in The Celluloid Closet are: the “sissy,” a gay man who is made to be a joke; “Killer Lesbian,” who invokes harm and pain because she isn’t sexually free; and the “tragic lovers,” where one on them inevitably dies off because they are gay. In my life experiences, I have seen certain movies and television shows change their depiction of the LGBTQ community from types and tropes that were in The Celluloid Closet into ones of optimism and inclusivity.   "Sissy"  "Killer Lesbian"  "Tragic Lover" Mitch       Growing up, I watched many Disney Channel shows that were supposed to teach children big life lessons, but there were never any queer characters. Partially due to Disney's lack of queer characters, it didn't depict the queer community, it wasn’t until mu...

I was driving around the other day, and I found this building advertising their hybridity, Mexican & Californian. After talking about hybridity, I can't stop seeing it around in my everyday life. I find it interesting that once you start learning about something, it is very easy to start observing it every day. Where have you all seen hybridity in your everyday life? 

Here is a link to a short YouTube video of an art exhibit where you turn on and off a light. As you switch the light off, everyone in the room appears to be in a black-and-white movie. This was a cool way to show that people could stop seeing race and instead realize that we are all human.   youtube.com

 "Seven out of ten people in the world today live in countries where inequality has increased over the past three decades" (Lagarde, 2014, n.p.)  This is a crazy statistic!!! Why do you think it has increased in the last three decades? The reading says it's because people's security is being threatened globally. (World Economic Forum, 2013, p.12a)  Recourses From the intersectionality reading:       Lagarde, C. (2014). A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century: the Richard Dimbleby Lecture. International Monetary Fund         Lecture, Feb. 3rd, 2014. Available from https://www.imf.org/external/ np/speeches/2014/020314.htm       World Economic Forum. (2013). Outlook on the Global Agenda 2014. World Economic Forum. 

In the reading Intersectionality,  the author says people can experience privilege and oppression simultaneously. An example of this that came to my mind was being a white woman. She will have more privilege over other races but is still oppressed because she is not a man. What do you guys think about this idea? Can people have both in their lives? 

  I really liked this imagery of intersectionality from the reading and it helped me visually understand how it works.  

   I identify as a female in this gender-contracted world. I have grown up with the perceived notion that Gender is a scientific idea that has been proven over and over again. However, there is no data or science to prove this, showing that Gender is a Social construction. And this is very evident in the way I grew up.  I grew up in a wealthier neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and went to one of the private schools. Here, the school advertised itself as an open place for children to flourish with their identities and gain a preparatory college education. But they cannot promote the truth that being a female at this school affected how teachers, coaches, and classmates perceived us. Due to a wide range of demographics at the school, the females were mainly scripted as weak, emotional, dumb but still having to be intelligent, athletic but not as good as the guys' teams, and an object.  Our school dress code made this male/female Gender distinction very clear...

 In  The Social Construction of Gender  by Judith Lorber, one part that stood out to me is the idea of "Doing Gender."  This idea that we are "Doing Gender" is a funny saying to something that I have found my subconscious doing regularly. After reading this passage, I noticed myself trying to categorize people. I am not sure if I do it because I am trying to make myself feel like I fit in or if the notion on gender categorisation is so engraved into my subconscious because of how I grew up. Do you think there is a way  to change our subconscious thoughts? What if these subconscious thoughts cannot change/ do they need to be changed?