Hello class! My name is Shamarra Ivey. My major is Communication Studies. I will be graduating from BMCC in Fall 2020. I hope to attend a four year college after this and earn my bachelor’s degree in Communications eventually moving on to a master’s degree. I was born in Jamaica and lived there for about half my life.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed watching these eight videos. I think a lot of them shows how society influences us ad shapes our perspective on a lot of topics from a young age. The video that resonated with me the most was “Young Soul”. As a Jamaican woman I was taught the harmful thing that is homophobia. Growing up in Jamaica gay men were especially despised. I would often hear that it’s because the Bible said it is a sin especially from people who weren’t religious. As a black woman I know what it is like to be marginalized. Thankfully as I got older I overcame the hateful ideologies that were enforced upon me and learned to love, accept, and embrace the LGBQT+ community.<\/p>\n
My personal experience with gender is growing up in a Jamaican household I was always expected to learn how to cook because I’m a woman. I was told crazy things by some Caribbean people I encountered such as: I’m not going to be able to get a husband if I can’t cook, or that my husband would cheat on me for not being able to cook, or even going as far as to say I would get abused for not being able to cook. People expected me to fit into traditional gender roles as a woman such as doing the cooking and the cleaning. My mother and grandmother tried to instill a lot of these things in my. My sister and I were expected to do the inside work while my brothers were supposed to do the outside work. However, I protested this and luckily I was able to escape from these stereotypical gender roles. Putting up a fight against this allowed me to grow so much and experience new things outside of my gender. I never learned how to cook because of this but I’m still happy I stood my ground. The day I learn to cook it will be for myself and not for the purpose of finding\u00a0 a husband. For the past few years my family members has not suggested any of these stereotypical roles to me which I’m grateful for and can only assumed they’ve also grown along with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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