Discussion 11

• How do this week’s readings by Garza and Williams (and Anzaldua if you did the optional reading) expand your understanding of identity politics?
• What topics would you like to explore as a class in the remaining weeks of the semester? Optional: Why these topics?

I feel like identity politics has to do with freedom and equality.The message is trying to give us is to those who feel like they don’t fit in because of their gender or race, everyone is the same and nobody is more than the other because of their knowledge of politics or systems. If anything we should help each other, teach each other to end oppression. Individuals should feel comfortable enough to come out and talk about their stories, their experience,s and what we should work on. Alicia Williams tries to tell us that we cannot judge others by the way they feel or express themselves if we had not experienced the same, we should try to comprehend in other to develop a group of change