Lisa Blamfort – Gender & Communication COM265

Lisa Blamfort “Final Portfolio”

Artifact

As someone who grew up in a Catholic family and who went to a Catholic school since my kindergarten year to senior high school, I am confident that religion is among many important characteristics associated with the differentiation of gender inequality in society since the beginning of the world and all over the world. The role of a woman in religion nationwide especially in a Catholic religion is in the household by being mothers and wives, it is also granting on the respect for women and their vital role in family life, but Catholic Church does not promote emancipation a complete equality with men because the opinion of women most of the time is hardly hearing. The artifact that society uses to apply its norms to people is the story the twelve Apostles picked by Jesus to carry on His mission in the New Testament.

Jesus selected twelve people from his circle to turn to his disciples. They would have taken care of ordinary men. The 12 apostles were Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Jesus taught them about the kingdom of God, and in return he learned much from them about the kingdom of men. The reason why he chose them is to spread the brilliance of truth, and the brilliance of truth will be scattering around the world and will continue to shine in the process of pursuing. He chooses and uses these guys to calculate his outstanding plans. After a complete discipleship journey and following his rebirth from the dead, Jesus fully commanded the apostles (Matthew 28:16-2, Mark 16:15) to advance God’s kingdom and carry the word of God to the world.

This story that affects equality issues in the society because Jesus did make a contrast of gender in the Bible by choosing only 12 Jewish men as apostles that means for a religious person that women are valueless and unequal to men. Because of that theory in the Bible, women are barring from becoming pope, priest and cardinal, the catholic church argues that “If Jesus wanted women to be priests, he would have called them to be his apostles.” Women were not allowing to aid in the revitalized diaconate by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and the church refuses to admit women to the priesthood, the catholic delivers a message to the world: women are inferior to men and they are still going be and nobody cans anything about that in the Catholic Community.

Social Constructionism is a theory of knowledge that study how socially situated and knowledge work well-adjusted in the arrangement of inequalities where a group of people in power decides to produce racial, sexual and gender affairs only to be categorizing and valued another group of people over another according to “Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, and Laura Heston”. This theory plays a big part also in gender aspect because this story from the New Testament, all the powerful minister of religion were straight male, all of them were white with green or blue eyes like Jesus who is describing as a blonde hair and green eyes man. This theory helps the feminist movements how to end bias in our society.

It is evident that a simple story affect of the rank of women in the religion also affects the status of women in society as a whole that’s the reason I choose this tale from the Bible. The Catholic religion is there to oppress a woman in every aspect in their life simply because Jesus chose men only to be his closest friends, it lifts men up and women down only for their own self-esteem. The issues with the exclusion of women and girls make our society unhealthy and unbalanced. We need to educate each other how to love and respect others for a better world.

Gender identity

My gender is constructing for my person based on the gendered interactions that I have in my childhood and my teenage years with my family, teachers, classmates and friends, as well as, other identities or roles I may hold. Another influence of my gender identity is how I feel inside and outside and how I know myself to be when it comes to gender.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my body and told my parents, “It’s a girl.” That doctor was socializing to believe, as if most of us are, that you can determine gender by physical anatomy at birth. I remember when I was 5 years old, I grew up seeing myself as a little girl wearing dresses and skirt and boys wearing pants and playing football in my neighborhood. But everything change when my mom had a full time management job in a restaurant, she didn’t have time to care of myself, so she asked my uncles and my brother to do it for her because she was the oldest and the main provider of the household so everybody had to follow her rules. I was raising by 3 uncles, a brother and a step-after/father, those guys did everything in the house such as: cleaning, cooking, laundry, comb my hair, teach me how to dance, study, play chess, tic tac toe, domino, video games and play sports like soccer, basketball and tennis etc.

In spite of the fact that my household was an only man one, my school was the opposite. I spent all of my childhood and teenage years in a catholic school that accepted only girl. The nuns of my school taught me how to eat, dance, sing, talk, act, walk and think like the sweet gentle girl. I had only one girlfriend because the other girls said that I was insane and I acted like a boy, I was confused because this event is how my uncles taught me how to talk and act, the nuns didn’t like my behavior either, and they were constantly fighting with my male care givers because my uncles always dressed me like a little boy when the nuns are having schools’ activities and the evil nuns weren’t feeling it and they always kicked me out from those activities sometimes. I remember that I was late for school and 2 of my uncles were fixing my hair, they decided to do a high ponytail with my hair but they could not find any elastic band or rubber band to do it so, they decided to use an electric cord to attach my hair and they did it and send me to school, and the nuns send me back to my house.

I spent my whole life trying to balance those two mutually exclusive categories of gender that society creates called binary gender, but it was unsuccessful, so I decide to blend them, and I get in return the perfect combo. This issue is 3 important concepts that I learn from the course that help me with my identity. The first one is the “Theorizing Lived Experiences” that disclosed how inequality of race, class, gender, and sexuality drives to numerous problems to a micro, meso, and macro/global level of every day. This theory is an important detail to the feminist analysis is allegiance to the formation of person’s understanding base in the experiences of people belonging to disempowered groups. This theory makes me realize that my childhood has a big impact in my gender identity perhaps if I was born in family includes father, mother and sisters or grew up with my aunts only I would be different and loss.

The second is Psychological theories incorporate psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic feminism that our conscious or unconscious thoughts and memories don’t have an affect to our gender identity, but our emotional experience during our childhood does. I grew up in memories that men and women aren’t different at all my uncles and brother did everything and anything that a woman can do

Discussion

My perspective has changed because of the assignments that I completed in Open labs, these homeworks were nothing like others I had been assigning in the past, at first, I was scared of these works but now I feel confident to do them. They unfolded my critical thinking about myself and took me out of my comfort zone. I definitely needed this class to identify myself and needs because I was losing. Once I started putting myself into those assignments, I was able to identify my gender and who I am. I wanted to do more and more I wished this class was a little longer. The professor and my peers who always commented on my posts made me want to learn more about myself, others and my future.

I began investigating gender identity options, even ones that are slightly outside of my gender area. I started taking steps toward answering all the questions about who I am. I stopped ignoring what others think and say about me. After this class of empowerment, heartening, and learning ways to excel myself, I could not feel more ready to take on the next chapter of my life.

One of the assignments required dip into more about my gender identity was 2. This project was to create a visual image of my identity and made a list my personal, enacted, relational, and communal identity. This task was really helpful, because it gave me a whole new perspective on how to cross the next phase in my life, teach me things I didn’t even know about and how my childhood has a big impact in my identity right now. After doing this assignment, I couldn’t wait the discovery of myself with my family, friends and classmates.

The biggest takeaway from this course is that I can create use Open Lab, which is a thing I never did before, turn in assignments online, write, and so much more in one place. I am also very thrilled to have this tool to include into the hybrid learning setting, I wish more teachers that I am going to have are going to use it as well in the future. The format of the class affects my learning and my motivation in the way that the professor always gives me frequent, early, positive feedback that supports my beliefs that I can do well. The tasks weren’t too easy nor too difficult, but they made me confident I that I can succeed at anything in college. The learning atmosphere of the class was safe, open, and positive.

College is a place for expanding your mind and find yourself and this class definitely did most of the work. Thank you to some of my classmates for making my experience so amazing, but I would especially like to thank the professor for having such a wonderful impact on my life.

Journal

This text “Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies” by “Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, and Laura Heston” uses Crucial feminist theories like discrimination and exclusion on the basis of sex and gender, objectification structural and economic inequality, power, and gender roles and stereotypes to explain us the creation of the social movement of feminism. The authors also show how personal experiences form by political, economic and cultural passions in the condition of history, institutions and culture, Conceptualizing Structures of Power impact and the limit of feminism. And how Social Constructionism and Intersectionality that is social categorizations including race, class, and gender applying to a specific group for the creation of racism and discrimination in the systems established and endorsed by rich and educate white men

The authors explain us in his introduction several factors that contribute to the creation of feminism movement. The first one was the Theorizing Lived Experiences that unfold how inequality of race, class, gender, and sexuality leads to multiples issues to a level of micro, meso, and macro/global of every day towards woman that cause them to develop organizations and protestations in order to break those dilemmas with other women who were experiencing the same economic, cultural, and social problems.

Conceptualizing Structures of Power consists to keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits by the establishment of rules, norms, and procedures based of his or her gender, race and sex but like a human body this theory can crash by changing and by fighting inequality for the collapse of that system even if it is going to take time for the skeleton to collapse, and the feminism goals to accomplish.

The text makes realized that “man is a wolf to man” I thought everything like all those prejudices and discrimination was normal and they were nature work, I thought the color of my skin was supposed to be the change in order to be happy and loved by others, I thought I was supposed to be inferior to white people, that white is right, I thought God makes me black because I am damming, or he hates me. I said several times when I was a kid I hate myself I wish I was white because of the injustice that was going on around me and still, but growing up I feel like the text said it is just Conceptualizing Structures of Power to make rich white men feel good about themselves band put themselves in the top of the pyramid and put down minorities. Now that knowledge, information and education are accessible to everybody I feel the system is starting to crack and a change is coming as if Sam Cook said in his song “A Change is Gonna Come.”

Worked Cited

“Quick Summary of the Twelve Apostles.” PDF Free Download, docplayer.net/23892700-Quick-summary-of-the-twelve-apostles.html.

Lisa Blamfort Discussion 8

My perspective has changed because of the assignments that I completed in Open lab, these homeworks were nothing like others I had been assigned in the past, at first, I was scared of these works but now I feel confident to do them. They unfolded my critical thinking about myself and took me out of my comfort zone. I definitely needed this class to identify myself and needs because I was lost. Once I started putting my whole self into those assignments, I was able to identify my gender and who I am. I wanted to do more and more I wished this class was a little longer. The professor and my peers who always commented on my posts made me want to learn more about myself, others and my future.

I began investigating gender identity options, even ones that are slightly outside of my gender area. I started taking steps toward answering all of questions about who I am. I stopped ignoring what others think and say about me. After this class of empowerment, heartening, and learning ways to excel myself I could not feel more ready to take on the next chapter of my life.

One of the assignments required dip into more about my gender identity that was discussion 2. This project was to create a visual image of my identity and made a list my personal, enacted, relational, and communal identity. This task was really helpful, because it gave me a whole new perspective on how to cross the next phase in my life, teach me things I didn’t even know about and how my childhood has a big impact in my identity right now. After doing this assignment, I couldn’t wait the discovery of myself with my family, friends and classmates.

The biggest takeaway from this course is that I can create use Open Lab, that is a thing I never done before, turn in assignments online, communicate, and so much more in one place. I am also very thrilled to have this tool to include into the hybrid learning setting, I wish more teachers that I am going to have are going to use it as well in the future.

the format of the class affects my learning and my motivation in the way that the professor always gives me frequent, early, positive feedback that supports my beliefs that I can do well. The tasks weren’t too easy nor too difficult, but they made me confident I that I can succeed at anything in college. The learning atmosphere of the class was safe, open and positive.

Lisa Blamfort Institutional Artifact project

As someone who grew up in a Catholic family and who went to a Catholic school since kindergarten to senior high school, I am confident that religion is among many important characteristics associated with the differentiation of gender inequality in society since the beginning of the world and all over the world. The role of a women in religion nationwide especially in a Catholic religion is in the household by being mothers and wives, it is also grant on the respect for women and their vital role in family life, but Catholic Church does not promote emancipation a complete equality with men because the opinion of women most of the time is hardly heard. The artifact that society uses to apply its norms to people is a holy book called the Bible, it also uses the 10 Commandments of Moses, the rules of the Catholic Church, 7 Deadly Sins in Dante’s inferno etc.…

The connection between religion and gender equality can be interpret clearly by the very first pages of the Holy Bible in Genesis 2:4-3:24 that explain God or Yahweh created Adam who is man before and Eve a woman is created from one of Adam’s ribs to be his companion/servant. The holy Bible even accused Eve to seduce Adam to eat the Forbidden fruit and make him lose his place in the Garden of Eden. Another disturbing part in the Bible is men did polygamy like King David had many wives and multiple concubines in 2 Samuel 5:14-16 KJV but if women committed adultery, they will stone to death in the Gospel of John 7:53–8:11

Another artifact that really affects equality issues in the society is the most powerful characters in the Catholic bible almost all the religious leaders are men such as Daniel, David, Paul, Job, Joshua, Jesus, Moses, , the Pope Francis for catholic church, even Yahweh AKA God who nobody never sees face to face or even talks to is considered as a white man. In more than 10,000 saints recognized by the Roman Catholic Church that I used to pray every day, only 20 women Saints who made a mark on the Catholic World.

Jesus did make a contrast of gender in the Bible by choosing only 12 Jewish men as apostles that means for a religious person that women are invaluable and inequal to men. Because of that theory in the Bible, women are barred from becoming pope, priest and cardinal, the catholic church even argues that “If Jesus wanted women to be priests, he would have called them to be his apostles.” Women were not allowed to aid in the revitalized diaconate by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and the church refuses to admit women to the priesthood, the catholic delivers a message to the world: women are inferior to men and they are still going be and nobody cans anything about that in the Catholic Community.

The Bible tell us “Obey the government and its rules, for God is the One who has put it there and if we refuse to obey the law punishment will follow.” This verse in the bible makes everybody fearful and this example is a Psychological theory include psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic feminism because most people go to church and follow their gender through memories related to their religious norms or the bible rules but not based what they truly feel inside themselves.

The Bible is known as the oldest book in history of mankind, people didn’t have access to other books in the past because books were considered as a luxury limited item own by rich people and religious leaders only, our peers did grew up through and by the bible because it was more accessible than other well informed books. And this this where the critical/Cultural theory come play a role in the inequality of gender. And unfortunately, this biblical culture was transmitted from generation to generation.

Social Constructionism play a big part also in gender aspect because those holy books have a lot of common despite their differences in name and location, all the powerful minister of religion in the Bible were male, most of them were white with green or blue eyes like Jesus who is described as a blond hair and green eyes man, rich in power and material because most of them were kings and those are the same people who wrote those holy books. This theory helps the feminist movements how to end bias in our society.

It is evident that the study of the rank of women in religion also affects the status of women in society as a whole that’s the reason I choose religion. The man was created before the woman and therefore may have authority even if the first human body ever discovered was a woman named Lucy. Man’s dominance over woman is presented as part of the consequence of sin because eve ate the apple and force Adam to do so, suggesting that such dominance was not God’s original intent. And the last page of the Bible Apocalypse concludes that a woman will give birth to the anti-Christ. The Problem with that those religious institutions such as religious school, universities, seminaries and religious homes and orphanages they are woman’s enemy. The Catholic religion is there to oppress woman in every aspect in their life, it lifts men up and women down just for their own self-esteem. The issues with exclusion of women and girls makes our society unhealthy and unbalanced. We need to educate each other how to love and respect others for a better world.

LISA BLAMFORT Reading Journal #6

Elizabeth Bell and Daniel Blaeuer in “PERFORMING GENDER AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION RESEARCH” explain us how gender roles are the process in which a culture or society determines rights, responsibilities, and the identities of men and women in relation to one another and continued this process by the transfer of stereotypes. Everybody who is living in society is acting according to his/her gender roles and gender identity assigned by society in his/her communication with others and this exchanging information are based in alignment with his/her gender identity. Then, someone’s gender identity in interpersonal relationships possesses an impact on the development of the relationship confirmed.

The authors describe Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange messages and feelings between them through verbal and non-verbal communications. These Interpersonal communications between people are influenced by cultural background, lived experiences, consciousness or belief of someone. Therefore, stereotypes about gender identity take a major part in the communication process.

Gender identity stereotypes are created according to society’s norms and gender roles, and the existence of these bias are challenged as interpersonal communication obstacle in some cases. It is really important to address stereotypes about the gender identity because of its effects on in interpersonal processes. Gender difference and inequality forced by gender relations, originates relationship between individuals to be inconsistent and inequal. And If the interpersonal communication procedure takes place between people who are not in equal positions, the idea carried by the source does not reach the potential, it is going to result as the casualty effects on personnel may be delayed and what was engaged for the communication process are acquired.

The formation of the basis for gender identity stereotypes make a distinction between men and women by actions and especially when regarded as indicative of character

forms, and role expectations. These stereotypes are made from the moment as a first impression of an individual, and directly impact the interpersonal communication process. Thus, the stereotypes may result as fence barriers for the interpersonal communication process and lead to an impossible interpersonal communication or a miscommunication

Lisa Blamfort Discussion 7

As someone who grew up in a religious family, I am confident that religion is among many important characteristics associated with the differentiation of gender inequality in society since the beginning of the world and all over the world. The role of a women in religion nationwide is in the household by being mothers and wives, it is also grant on the respect for women and their vital role in family life, but church does not promote emancipation a complete equality with men because the opinion of women most of the time is hardly heard. The artifact that society uses to apply its norms to people is a holy book called the Bible for Christians, Quran for Islam, Shreemad Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads and Veda for the Hinduism, the Buddhism has Tripitakas, Judaism has The Hebrew Bible, the satanic religion has the satanic Bible etc..

The connection between religion and gender equality can be interpret clearly by the very first pages of the Bible Genesis 2:4-3:24 that explain God or Yahweh created Adam who is man before and Eve a woman is created from one of Adam’s ribs to be his companion/servant. The holy Bible even accused Eve to seduce Adam to eat the Forbidden fruit and make him lose his place in the Garden of Eden.

Another artifact that really affects equality issues in the society is the most powerful characters in the bible or other holy books and religious leaders are men such as Daniel, David, Paul, Job, Joshua, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Joseph Smith for Mormon religion, Buddha, the Pope Francis for catholic church, even Yahweh AKA God who nobody never sees face to face or even talks to is considered as a white man.

Jesus did make a contrast of gender in the Bible by choosing only 12 Jewish men as apostles that means for a religious person that women can’t serve as elders or a leader in a community. Because of that theory in the Bible, women are barred from becoming pope, priest and cardinal, the catholic church even argues that “If Jesus wanted women to be priests, he would have called them to be his apostles.” Feminist in the Jewish community argue there is a cynical of the exclusion of women from traditional Judaism’s hallowed rituals and practices and the history of female barring the in Judaism continues to remain. And even in the Muslim-majority countries that are 209 countries and religion force women to live as submissive, obedient wives because women are inferior to men if they refuse obey to this norm their life will be taking away.

Social Constructionism play a big part also in gender aspect because those holy books have a lot of common despite their differences in name and location, all the powerful minister of religion in the Bible were male, most of them were white with green or blue eyes, rich in power and material because most of them were kings and those are the same people who wrote those holy books. This theory helps the feminist movements how to end bias in our society

It is evident that the study of the rank of women in religion also affects the status of women in society as a whole that’s the reason I choose religion. The man was created before the woman and therefore may have authority even if the first human body ever discovered was a woman named Lucy. Man’s dominance over woman is presented as part of the consequence of sin because eve ate the apple and force Adam to do so, suggesting that such dominance was not God’s original intent. And the last page of the Bible Apocalypse concludes that a woman will give birth to the anti-Christ. The Problem with that those religious institutions such as religious school, universities, seminaries and religious homes and orphanages they are woman’s enemy. The issues with exclusion of women and girls makes our society unhealthy. We need to educate each other how to love and respect others for a better world.

Lisa Blamfort Discussion #6

In this essay “Cisgender Privilege, Intersectionality, and the Criminalization of CeCe McDonald: Why Intercultural Communication Needs Transgender Studies” Dr Julia R. Johnson define “transgender” persons who identify as transfeminine, transmasculine, transsexual, Two-Spirit, cross-dresser, genderqueer, same-gender- loving, in the life, female-to-male (FTM), male-to-female (MTF), intersex and more. she argues that her definition is problematic in some contexts because some people of color associate transgender with whiteness and western conception ss of gender binary. But Johnson ultimately settle on using in his essay ‘‘trans’’ because the author wants to alert gender nonconformity and to constantly remind people that gender is known in its interaction with other identity heading.

Johnson defines “cissexual” and “cisgender” If one’s sex identity matches her/his morphology, then s/he is cissexual. If one’s gender identity aligns with sex morphology, s/he is said to be cisgender. she argues that those definitions are significant because they highlight that sex and gender are most often recognize in connection to a solid and socially irrevocable focus when, in fact, the categories of sex and gender are fabricated and executed. CeCe McDonalds’s case does connect to definitions of cisgender and of Cissexual because Schmitz and his friends settled gendered, racialized, and sexed frontier between themselves and McDonald. She also faced cissexism through the court system because she placed men’s prison even though she identified herself as a woman.

According to Johnson the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality does impact McDonald’s life and, in particular, this case against her because her arrest, sentencing, and imprisonment and the way treat trans people of color in the prison system

I believe a trans woman or men can openly secure a job in my field of study because accountant or bookkeeper mostly work behind close, doors our role are prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information. Documents financial transactions by entering account information in a computer, we don’t interact with clients if we don’t want to, we can just make a phone call, it is not like a social worker job.

I learn that the system criminal is not fair to minorities because of People of color, particularly black males, face longer sentences than their white non-Hispanic counterparts for similar crimes. People of color are extremely overrepresented in the juvenile justice system and they are making up more than 60 percent of the people behind bars among 47% black trans people. Black transgender people face awful abuse in jail and prison by inmates and staff. They are lodged according to their gender at birth, instead of their gender identify. They are denied medical care. There is nothing just or fair in the criminal system for black trans and people of color. There’s only barbarism and savagery for them.

Lisa Blamfort Discussion #5

As a black female who from another country I experience a lot of prejudice and discrimination since I was born remember. First of all, I don’t consider myself safe anywhere, that’s the reason I don’t work the night shifts at my old nursing home job even if that was my desire because I am full time student during the day. And white woman get justice for sexual assault, rape and domestic violence but rarely black women because the news or the system instead blame them and say that black women are oversexualized, and this is their faults.

I used to be followed around in my local beauty supplies stores by those store’s owner Asians like I am a wanted criminal by the police or like I am a child, sometimes I turned and asked them if I can help them? Or if they want a picture or an autograph and told them I don’t remember I am a celebrity and you are paparazzi, what the hell you want? It is worse when I went shopping in Manhattan in these boutiques with my other black friends, it is like one of Tupac Shakur’s song ‘” All Eyez on Me” like we are going to rob the store, I can’t even shop properly those prejudices make me so uncomfortable I just shop online only. And forget about to apply in these boutiques for a position if you are black and browns skin in Manhattan.

I experience microaggressions as woman because of my huge breasts, my breast is 40 dd people always told me that my breast is beautiful especially my male friends, sexy and so on. some people ask me if I get breast implant or lips injection or butt lift etc. but I always told them most of black women are curvy in lips, breast, and butt.

As an immigrant, people always ask me where I am from even some teachers at BMCC because of my accent. And when I told them that a Caribbean slave decent girl, they always asked, are you from Jamaica? and I always told them Jamaica isn’t the only island in the Caribbean and I am from Haiti. And because of my French accent some people thought I am French, but I always told them that France isn’t the only country that speak French, Haitian people speak French we are a bilanguage country.

I don’t have privilege and never will have any because of my skin color and where I am from, I did not grow up with educated parents. I am not sure sometimes if I am going to make my dreams come true because of who I am. I live in constant fear being killed by police like Brianna Taylor or Sandra Bland than natural causes or a car accident, I pray God every night if I get kill by a police officer make sure someone is recording my death like George Floyd because I want my family to get justice for me. Being in black female immigrant, living for me is hell, if die right now I will die without any regrets because I have nothing to live for in this world and nothing to lose, I am tired fighting against inequality with my community.

Lisa Blamfort Reading Journal#5

Derald Wing Sue in “Microaggressions in everyday life: race, gender, and sexual orientation” explains how our daily interchange implicates intentional or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group and this action is called “microaggression”, its cans be based on race and gender. The one that formed on race is named racial microaggressions that is quotidian slights, insults, indignities and denigrating communication addressed to people of color by ignorant white people These messages may be sent orally, nonverbally or environmentally. We have also Gender Microaggressions that built on gender that are some

Harmless comments that can ton up overtime period and affect a person’s sense of self and identity. The author supports her studies by saying people of color usually face microaggressions in their daily reaction with friends, neighbors, co-workers, teachers, and employers. Those negatives interchange make them feel excluded, untrustworthy, second-class citizens, and abnormal therefore Microaggressions has a Harmful Impact on people of color, it affects their opportunities, their well-being, and their sense of agency.

“An Introduction to Gender in Social Institutions” by “Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco & Catherine Helen Palczewski” in “Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach” talks how someone’s performance of gender through communication, body, and language are characteristics by social institutions. These traits emphasis who we are today and what is our gender role in society. Those social institutions are evolved between micropolitics that is settlement over power, meso- politics touch on to the power apply by groups within institutions, and to make sure those power respected they established rules, law, norms and policies called macropolitics.

Prejudice Versus Institutionalized Discrimination, those institutions have negative affects and push people intentionally to bias unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group and those intentional or unintentional discriminatory mistreatment are formed by society and its institutions.

Institutional control those social Institutions make sure those norms, rules, policies are being execute and assist gender expectations and discriminations by prime class. the supreme ideas, values, beliefs, perceptions, and understandings from these institutions known to a group of a society that lead their behaviors even if it come in contradiction with himself or herself. It is achieved generally by mind control or control if ideas.

Institutionalized Gendered/Sexed Violence, we lived in society where men are expected to be violent and women are not these stereotypes make us insensitive to domestic violence toward a woman in a household because this is society’s norm and culture. These institutions of violence have a big impact on woman happiness.

Lisa Blamfort Discussion 4

Here some of the terms that describe myself, the first one is “People of Color” that is described as any person who is not considered white and I am not a white person, I am from Haiti where my mother and my father are Africa slaves’ descent. The second one is “Third World” like I said before I am from Republic of Haiti that is one of the s the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, so it is definitely as a third world according to Wikipedia because we are economically poor, and non-industrialized with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita of $756 in 2019 and a Human Development Index ranking of 169 out of 189 countries in 2019.

Invisibility of women is considered of the feminist philosophy of language that was critical by the feminist movement and need to be change in philosophy of language. Philosophy of language in earliest times was considered as an issue to the feminist movement and it usually in a way considered to be unfair because of the male stereotypes, inadequately arranged to advance feminist purposes. Even though, the philosophy of language wasn’t unsuitable for the movement women didn’t try to erase it otherwise they did a revision on it, removed the male stereotypes and transformed into something that can be profitable at the feminist goals.

According to Geek Feminism wiki Invisibility of women is when people occasionally hypothesize a category and said there’s any woman even if they are a few or only one there. Feminist have also disagreed that the terms such as ‘he’ and ‘man’ devote to building women invisible, to bring woman down and interfere scrutiny from their presence. It is really important for woman to clash invisibility of women in many domains starting in the language one because it has a big mental impact in people.

One of the concrete example Invisibility of women that I have is from my personal experience that I had in quarantine in the past month and half. Because of the pandemic I stop going to work and to physical school, and I was super boring. As an online video gamer, I decide to buy and download Dying Light that is first-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. The game was scary, crazy and super hard to play even if you choose easy mode the guests were still difficult to pass. The game also does feature co-op multiplayer, my player name was lisablamfort who was a girl name. I believe I was the only girl in my game section or the only person with a girl name. in the beginning a lot of male players always joined my tutorial and passed my guests for me, sometimes 3 came to team up with me, and when we are moving or fighting in an area usually my co-op or co-player always say let’s go guys but never said let’s go man and woman. Sometimes when I try to join other teams, they don’t accept me because I am girl they said. So, I decide to change my player name to gray and after that I got the same respect as a man the online game, I got accepted in many teams and other player don’t even help me for my guests anymore. I believe because I was the only girl, I was really visible, but I was constantly overshowed by my co-op male because they never said how are you Lisablamfort but hey dude or hey bro even though they know I am a girl.

A lot of area from language to women’s right contribute to overshadow women, but the language is one the most important issues that the feminist movement is trying to reform and used in favor of women. Terms like ‘he’ and ‘man’ is related to male than female and is contributing to the invisibility of women

Lisa Blamfort Gender Identity Project Draft

My gender is constructed for my individual based on the gendered interactions that I have in my childhood and my teenager years with my family, teachers, classmates and friends, as well as, other identities or roles I may hold. Another influence of my gender identity is how I feels inside and outside and how I know myself to be when it comes to gender.

When I was born the doctor assigned me as a female to my parents like society brainwashed him to say so and according to my physical anatomy. I remember when I was 5 years old, I grew up seeing myself as a little girl wearing dresses and skirt and boys wearing pants and playing football in my neighborhood. But everything change when my mom had a full time management job in a restaurant, she didn’t have time to care of myself so she asked my uncles and my brother to do it for her because she was the oldest and the main provider of the household so everybody had to follow her rules. I was raised by 3 uncles, a brother and a step-after/father, those guys did everything in the house such as: cleaning, cooking, laundry, comb my hair, teach me how to dance, study, play chess, tic toc toe, domino, video games and play sports like soccer, basket-ball and tennis etc.

In spite of the fact that my household was an only man one, my school was the opposite. I spent all of my childhood and teenager years in a catholic school that accepted only girl. The nuns of my school taught me how to eat, dance, sing, talk, act, walk and think like sweet gentle girl. I had only one girlfriend because the other girls said that I was insane and I acted like a boy, I was confused because this is how my uncles taught me how to talk and act, the nuns didn’t like my behavior either and they were constantly fighting with my male care givers because my uncles always dressed me like a little boy when the nuns are having schools activities and the evils nuns weren’t feeling it and they always kicked me out from those activities sometimes. I remember that I was late for school and 2 of my uncles were fixing my hair, they decided to do a high ponytails with my hair but they weren’t able to find any elastic bang or rubber bang to do it so they decided to use a electric cord to attach my hair and they did it and send me to school, and the nuns send me back to my house.

in connection with women that cause the feminist movement. This theory makes me realize that my childhood has a big impact in my gender identity perhaps if I was born in family includes father, mother and sisters or grew up with my aunts only I would be different and loss.

The second is Psychological theories incorporates psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic feminism that our conscious or unconscious thoughts and memories don’t have an effect to our gender identity but our emotional experience during our childhood does. I grew up in memories that men and women aren’t different at all my uncles and brother did everything and anything that a woman could did and they didn’t see as a little girl they show how repair things like cars, broken Tv and radio, grill, drink beer and alcohol, smoke marijuana like a man and even taught me how to flirt with a girl or manipulate her to have sex with me. On the other hand, I saw them being vulnerate and emotional sometimes when their partners broke up with them like the so-called feminine side society portrays us.

And the third one is a critical/Cultural theory that is someone’s customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group influence someone life and keep human beings from a full and true understanding of how the world works and understand his or her identity. I was raised in a household where gender roles were in contradiction with the society norms because my mother didn’t engage in the traditional feminine gender role would be to nurture her family and my uncles were my caretakers.

My mother who is my role model breaks gender barrier and those 3 assignments that I had in Communication and Gender about Gender roles in society that it is from us expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex in my mind. Like Subhas Chandra Bose Quote: “Freedom is not given – it is taken,” that’s the reason of that quote I took the initiations to educate myself by reading, study gender identity and train my mind to seek the truth instead of information. I decide to become in the future a activist in the feminist movement because the society and the media are hurting us and killing us by hiding from us the truth about who we are, as one of my model “Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington:” “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed.””So, what responsibility do you all have?” he said. “To tell the truth. Not just to be first. But to tell the truth.” I want to tell the truth to people about gender identity and help them to free themselves.

Author: Lisa Blamfort