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Hello! Welcome to my blog, mostly made up of feminist or racial issues, and sometimes both at once. Throughout writing and compiling my portfolio, I realized what issues were close to my heart. I wrote most often about about race and women’s issues. There isn’t necessarily a central theme to my portfolio other than the fact every issue I talked about is something I have either lived through or have taken a great, frustrating, political interest in. I felt mostly angry while writing this. This past semester as a whole has been either rekindling past hurts about our current state of society, or teaching me new ones. As a white woman, I have many privileges. The woman part is where that ends, though. It boggles my mind when I think about how the female body is treated as ‘less than’ when compared to males. Even in our considerably progressive nation, women are still fighting for equal pay and their bodies are overly sexualized to sell products, like sandwiches or music (read more in my...
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Alaş, M. and Piggott, M. (2018). Nicki Minaj: Queen . [Album Cover] Young Money. Barker-Plummer, Bernadette. "Fixing Gwen." Feminist Media Studies, , vol. 13, no. 4, 25 Apr. 2012,   pp. 711-23. Burger King. It'll Blow Your Mind away . 2009. Burger King Restaurants, 2009. Carter, K. (2018). Cardi B: Money . [Album Cover] Atlantic Records. Ciolkowski, Laura. Rape Culture Syllabus . 15 Oct. 2016, www.publicbooks.org/rape-culture-syllabus/.    Accessed 14 Nov. 2018. Crazy Rich Asians . Directed by Jon M. Chu, SK Global Entertainment, 2018. Dawn, Jessica. "Sex Sells, But Should It?" Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues , vol. 9,    no. 1, 2006. DiAngelo, Robin J. "My Class Didn't Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege." Race, Class,     and Gender in the United States , compiled by Paula Rothenberg, 10th ed., Worth Publishers,    2016, pp. 181-87. Frye, Marilyn. "Oppres...
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Protest sign- Sills, et al.

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Media type: Protest sign Concept source: Sills, et al. Many public figures, including celebrities, politicians, our own President included, have had sexual assault and rape allegations made against them. Women have been coming out in stronger and stronger numbers to voice a terrifying event they endured. This often causes a disturbance among that certain figure’s following. Often, fans of the person take to social media platforms, such as facebook and twitter, to voice their opinions. In Sills, et al. article, they discuss how online platforms can both host and resist rape culture, and how they can create a  feminist counter public. This photo of a protest sign, protest unknown, shows the changing mindset around rape culture. The changing of the phrase on the poster is like how you can have both sides of an argument on one platform, such as with online rape culture. The onus used to be on women if they were raped. People would sum it up to something that the woman was wea...
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Article- Thrupkaew

Media type: Article and Video https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-model-minority-myth-why-studious-asian-stereotype-hurts-n792926 Concept source: Thrupkaew The article link I’ve shared also contains a video, which I will not reference here, but it is great for background information and for a first person report of living the Asian stereotype of the model minority myth. This example incorporates race and class. Shannen Kim came from a household where her parents were immigrants. They pushed her incredibly hard in school. She recalls that a 98 wasn’t good enough, it had to be a 100. The plan was to work hard, get into a good school, get a good career, and then you’ll be happy. As brought up in the Thrupkaew article, the idea behind the model minority myth is that a certain ethnic group is already set to achieve higher socioeconomic standards than others in the population. Kim felt this pressure not only from her family, but by her peers and community as well. Ev...
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Article- DiAngelo

Media type: Article https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culturally-speaking/201112/colorblind-ideology-is-form-racism Concept source: DiAngelo There has been a movement of color-blind racism in America. Color-blind racism completely disregards the skin tone, ethnicity and race of a person. Those who encourage color-blind racism believe that ignoring a person's skin color creates equality and puts them on the same “playing field”, as it were. These people are typically well off white folks. The cited article puts it this way: “A colorblind approach allows us to deny uncomfortable cultural differences.” When we ignore someone’s race, we ignore their history and culture which makes up a huge part of a person's identity. We essentially invalidate a large part of understanding someone who may be different for us. This prevents any type of learning and growing to happen. Instead of dealing with an issue head on, it smothers and suppresses it. Author DiAngelo says that “R...
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YouTube Video- Frye, Rothenberg

Media type: YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgDC2mYsUg Concept Source: Frye, Rothenberg Although the Saturday Night Live comedy sketch clip is meant to be a funny joke, it’s an abstract look at our current gender and race oppressions. Titled “Thirsty Cops,” two female black cops are sexually objectifying a white male. They pulled him over for a traffic incident, and are harassing him on the side of the road. Because it is two females doing this to a male, it’s funny, but if the roles were reversed, it would be terrifying. Comedians have always had a ‘hall pass’ for making commentary on almost untouchable issues in society. The SNL show takes full advantage of this ability.   If the roles in this sketch had been reversed, no one would have dreamed of airing it. The treatment of women in America has been under relentless criticism. Frye points out the importance and difficulty of recognizing oppression. She describes the importance of seeing the structure a...
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Personal Account- Palczewski

Media type: Personal account Concept source: Palczewski I didn’t know what intersectionality way before this class. Our intersectionality paper forced to to reflect on the building blocks of who I am. A semester later, that list has seemed to grow and shift. Palczewski defines intersectionality as a theory of identity and oppression. Taking an intersectional approach to an issue, for instance, “...should inform how people understand interpersonal communication, organizational cultures, pay inequity, and mass-mediated messages,” (Palczewski). I started understanding the term during one of our first readings which addressed the difference between a feminist, and a black gay feminist. My most prominent self identifiers are a white, young, American, college educated woman. I know for many people their sexuality is usually on the list of their forefront identifiers, but for me it isn’t much of a big deal. I’m bi, but I don’t see it as something that needs to be advertised. But mayb...
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