I feel like I am loosing my mind being in the house. I have 6 noisy parakeets that scream all day and 2 younger siblings who are online learning as well so waking up to their several alarms is not fun. I’ve resorted to cleaning up and planting in my buildings garden area/ courtyard since nobody touched it in years. (There were buried chip bags from like the 90’s which was gross).So, I have time to do that now all without leaving the building grounds. I’ve started cooking, so far so good with that. Also, I have been doing those at home workouts because I would lose any marbles I have left if I don’t. It also relieves any stress I have so I don’t have a meltdown. I think that’s all I’ve been doing so far. Also, Twitter.
Independent Study : Step 2
For my independent study I’m researching Isra Hirsi. The academic subjects that my project relates to is science mainly to deal with climate change. Isra is a climate change activist. Through my research this project concerns current events dealing with global warming. This also deals with race because in the climate change conversation black and ethnic voices are not heard. There isn’t enough representation for people of color in this conversation even though we are the main ones being impacted by it. climate change is a global problem which effects everywhere. Media gives representation to white faces and voices not giving people of color a chance. Each of these factors relates to my project.
What I would need to know in order to discuss it is how underrepresented people of color are and how greatly we are impacted by global warming. I would need to know how Isra is leading and how she is opening a space for people of color liker herself. Also, I would need to know how media has and influence on each of these factors.
Blog Post 4: Watch a Movie – Mudbound
The women in Mudbound relate to women and gender studies. The women in the film are examples of a women’s place in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era post war. Laura McAllan depicts a white woman’s role in being complicit with racism and the general role of a woman during those times. Florence Jackson gives us the point of view of a black woman whos family lives on the McAllan’s land. She is hired by Laura to take care of her children while her son returns from war. Vera another woman’s family sharecrops on the land like the Jacksons ,she shows a woman that has gone mad over her situation in life.
Laura a woman whos life wasn’t going anywhere before she met Henry -her husband -who “saved her” from her life before. She is grateful towards him for removing her from her situation but she does not love him. She is subordinate to what her husband wants. An example of this is when she states that she “loved domestic life yielding and waiting for him to come home . that what she was put on the Earth to do”. Also, she never denies his advances because it makes her feel like a wife. Her role as wife she places herself as lesser to make him feel like a man.
Laura sees the unjust treatment of the Jacksons throughout the movie. An example of this was when Pappy was speaking to Florence when she was cutting up food to cook. She held the knife to her side and Pappy threatened her. Laura stayed silently watching this happen even though she herself dose not like Pappy. She had silently coddled his racism and when she placed herself in a wife’s role, she had no power to do anything.
Vera the white sharecropper had been struggling to pay the sues. She constantly demands that Laura gives them work and to let her family stay on the land. She threatens and begs Laura to stay. But, that decision is ultimately up to her husband not hers to make. Vera’s actions would have gotten a black woman and her family killed if they had done that. which shows her white privilege.
. Florence goes to work for this white family which was a difficult decision for her to make because her mothers have done the same. She wanted to raise and love her own instead of a white woman’s children to the fullest wanting to break the generational job. She agreed to further her family in their goals of owning their own land and making ends meet.
Another way this film is related to women and gender studies is that the producer of the film is a black woman named Dee Rees. She was the first black woman who was nominated for a Oscar fort the best adopted screenplay for this film. She is making advances for people of color in the way they are marketed towards, as well as putting out media for consumption. She also made the industry leaders pay attention to what black consumers enjoy.
A Different Future
In a utopia life would be very different. I would be able to walk around freely without having to think immensely about my surroundings. I would not need to walk with items on my body to protect myself. I would be able to go out at night without fear of the possibility of dying. I would wake up and not have to worry about what I am wearing and how a man might be perceive the way I’m dressed. I would wake up and not have to fear the way cops would see me when I’m walking somewhere. I would not be uneasy in the presence of the police. In a ideal world I would not be refused a place to live because of the color of my skin and texture of my hair. I would not experience racism in my day to day life, or see others be discriminated against because of their religion. the earth would not be in the mess that it is in currently.
Independent Study
I am interested in exploring issues of climate change within communities of color and how it disproportionately affects them as well as the lack of diversity within the climate change conversation as they relate to women, gender, and sexuality studies, especially the work of Isra Hirsi during our current time period.
What is Feminism ?
Feminism is the ability to have an equal opportunity to do anything.
For women and their bodies to not to be viewed as a commodity but be seen as a human equal to any other human.
For men to be able to be emotional and deal with their emotions in a healthy way instead of destructive and not to be seen as non-masculine.
How to Post
1) Go to the Intro to Women’s Studies home page
2) At the top of the page hover over the “+New” and a dropdown menu should appear
3) click on post and you will be taken to the post page
4) Create a title of your choice then on the body section say what you want to say for your post
5) Ehen finished click the publish button at the top right hand corner of the page.