Intersectionality

This week’s readings had the themes of sexuality and racial discrimination. These themes are displayed in “The Story of Sexuality” by Michel Foucault and “Abbreviation in Black” by Roderick Ferguson. Foucault brings up the discussion of sexuality and its contemplation in the west since the seventeenth century. Confessions of sex in the eighteenth century became…

Intersectionality is a theory of how various social identities, such as race, gender, sexuality, and class, and their overlap contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual. While Paul Kalanithi does not express feelings of being affected directly by the oppression and discrimination that intersectionality can cause, he does…

For this weeks module on eastern and middle eastern cultures, I chose to study: India, Thailand, Turkey, Iran and China. Because my discussion board topic was transgender iranian intersectionality, I focused most heavily on Iran. Studying this topic, I experienced several shifts in perspective of iranian life satisfaction. Although this particular issue sheds negative light…

Sexual transmitted infections have affected our society to enhance their technology and improve medicine to better help those infected but as well as those who are are not infected. In particular, Chlamydia has had the highest diagnosed rate in bacterial sexual infections, affecting our young adults the most. Sexually transmitted infections are related to sociology,…

In the Netflix original film “Nappily Ever After”, main character Violet begins concluding the film by giving a sales pitch for a natural hair care line with the follow excerpt, “In the past couple of years, we’ve seen a huge cultural shift towards what’s natural and real. We’ve seen it in the growth of natural…

Over the course of DOC , we were given superficial definitions of keywords where each played a critical role in developing U.S history. But through class analysis and readings, my insight of the problematic history of white dominant America expanded. In each keyword comes multiplicable layers that erase the transparency of my past definitions of…

  Universalism refers to the concept which argues that some ideologies have can be generalized and are thus applicable universally. Marxists feminism is one of the most popular examples of such a universalist theory in feminism, which states the capitalist mode of production as the inherent reason for female oppression in the world (Glenn 1992:…

According to an interactive article by the New York Times, the number of Americans who have died from overdoses has increased by 650% since 1990. In October, President Trump announced declared the opioid epidemic a national health emergency and he talked about the $80 million initiative that will go towards pain management research and an…

The event I attended was a presentation given by Dr. Dean Franco, a professor in the English department and director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest. This event consisted of Franco talking about his new book, The Border and the Line – Race, Literature, and Los Angeles, published in January of 2019. The event…

College students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) experience a higher risk of psychopathological disorders such as but not limited to anxiety and depression due to the addition of imposed psychological stress that comes with identifying as a sexual or gender minority. (Borgogna, McDermott, Aita, & Kridel, 2018). These LGBTQ student’s…