LEARNING MODULE FIVE (REDO)

Due Wednesday 3/2 no later than Noon

Imagine you are participating in a conversation with the Combahee River Collective and, in a consciousness-raising group, you read the following article: Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow's Forgotten Horror.

Using the Combahee River Collective Statement and what you have learned in the past weeks, discuss a black feminist perspective to this issue (In 2-3 paragraphs).   How would the Collective approach the issue, especially with regard to privilege, interlocking oppressions, “the personal is political”, and a critique of the limitations of dominant feminist and anti-racist approaches to hierarchies of inequality.  What new perspectives might they offer?  Be creative…imagine you are sitting at the table with them!

LEARNING MODULE SIX

Due Saturday (2/26) by noon

After reading the essay, “And So I Choose,” by Allison Crews place her discussion of “rights” in conversation with the article you read for class this week, “Beyond Pro-Choice vs. Pro-Life?”  First (2 paragraphs), in your own words, please describe why each of these terms are in fact problematic or limiting to our larger discussion of reproductive rights.  Why were each limiting in Crew’s reflection?  What does a “reproductive justice” paradigm offer instead?  

Second (1-2 paragraphs) reflect on the recent arguments surrounding legislation addressed to congress (see links below).  What do you think is at stake in politicizing women’s bodies and reproduction?  What would a reproductive justice argument look like in response to this legislation.

 

Planned Parenthood Funding Blocked In House Vote

Center for Reproductive Rights Testimony

A chance to better understand some interlocking oppressions.

This Friday, at 6 pm, in Ferg 312, there will be a discussion group hosted by Spectrum (the student LGBTQ and Allies organization). This group is a discussion group for queer people of color AND their allies, so you don't need to be queer or of color to participate; you just need to be willing to listen and be respectful. The purpose is to gain a better understanding of the identities, experiences, and communities of queer people of color on our campus. This could be a really great opportunity to further your understanding of how oppressions reinforce each other, and I hope to see you there.

LEARNING MODULE FIVE

Imagine bell hooks joins the Combahee River Collective and in a consciousness-raising group reads her article “Straightening Our Hair,” and shows the film clip “A Girl Like Me.”

Based upon your readings for this week, discuss a black feminist perspective to this topic.  How would the Collective approach the issue, especially with regard to privilege, interlocking oppressions, “the personal is political,” and a critique of the limitations of dominant feminist and anti-racist approaches to hierarchies of inequality.  What new perspectives might they offer?  Be creative…imagine you are sitting at the table with them!

LEARNING MODULE FOUR

• Choose three examples from either the White Privilege Checklist, the Male Privilege Checklist, and the Black Male Privilege Checklist, or the Heterosexual Checklist (Katz) that made you think about your own privilege in a new way and tell us why (1 paragraph)
  

• Now make your own checklist (5 items) and explain why these are privileges using the week’s readings and lecture.  Explain key facets of the systems of oppression (gender, racial, heterosexist) that exist to reinforce these privileges in your life (2 paragraphs).
  
  
  
• Go to our section’s wallwisher link for “Gender Microaggressions” (also on E-learning).  Post an example of a gender microaggression.  Then post the message that this microaggression sends (this is a required posting and will count toward full credit for this learning module!)

Foursome?

Even though the woman is not on bottom being overpowered or controlled by a man, she is still seen as an "oject" rather than a person. Why is there 1 girl and 3 guys? This ad is selling sex, the people just so happen to be wearing Calvin Klein.

Save the Whales

As if women are not pressured enough to be skinny...now we have to worry about being called a whale. I'm not sure if this is to pursuade larger women to go vegan. I would think it would make them go anorexic. Ridiculous