Fairey said his “Hope” posters and the “We the People” posters are driven by the same impulse: to provide encouragement to those who feel powerless and deflated.

“I’m still very proud of the work I did on the ‘Hope’ campaign. Those values carry on,” he said, adding: “Whether you’re Muslim, Latino or black, we’re all Americans. I want this campaign to be about us seeing ourselves in each other and feeling a connection to one another.”

The posters, designed for protest, feature Native Americans, African Americans, Muslims, and Latinas. The street artist Shepard Fairey has designed a series of posters in designed to protest President-elect Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated as President of the United States later today.

• How do this week’s readings by Garza and Williams (and Anzaldua if you did the optional reading) expand your understanding of identity politics?

The concept of political identity is brought out clearly so that the reader understands the approach and can relate it to fighting agist oppression which has a direct impact on you as a group, and not fighting to end the suffering and oppression of others,identity politics is all about fighting for the rights that affect you as a group with similar problems and not for other people’s suffering. Anzaldua also understands that her individuality has isolated herself from her community. In her culture, women are often expected to fulfill a rigidly defined subservient role in the patriarchy. Anyone who resists this destiny faces ostracization. She describes how she was mocked for studying and how her queerness was considered to be “the ultimate rebellion.” This means that her sense of self is indelibly linked to a culture that rejects central tenets of her being.

• What topics would you like to explore as a class in the remaining weeks of the semester? Optional: Why these topics?

I would like to explore about male early childhood education teachers, because when I was doing an assignments from another class I noticed that the poucentage of women working in the early childhood education field is higher and the pourcentage is really surprising high. 

• What is meant by the following quote?: “We might use our position at the bottom to make a clear leap into revolutionary action.  If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.”

I think what she mean by this quote is that we are the only one that can stand up for ourselves and since not many people like us we should rely on each other to make our fight and do whatever necessary to change the norms of the way society see us. “We exists as women who are Black who are feminists, each stranded for the moment, working independently because there is not yet an environment in this society remotely congenial to our struggle because, being on the bottom, we would have to do what no one else has done: we would have to fight the world.” [2]

• What does the Combahee River collective mean by “identity politics”? How do you see this operating in Paris is Burning?

the political analysis and practice that we women use to struggle against our oppression. The fact that racial politics and indeed racism are pervasive factors in our lives did not allow us, and still does not allow most Black women, to look more deeply into our own experiences and, from that sharing and growing consciousness, to build a politics that will change our lives and inevitably end our oppression. Our development must also be tied to the contemporary economic and political position of Black people.

• What do race and gender have to do with capitalism?

We know that expressions of gender, race and class are often expressed in forms that are not only intersectional but mutually constitutive. We know that in most parts of the world that the greatest burdens of exploitation and expropriation are born by women of color whom also bear the, often unacknowledged, brunt of movements of resistance.

What do you understand the liberated woman to be?

A liberated woman is a woman that makes his own decisions and roles. A woman can   have sex before marriage and a job after, if she wants, without being judged for it, and without worrying about other people, since other people should mind their own business and let the woman do whatever she wants.

How might the liberated woman be important for women’s liberation?

The liberated woman can be important for women’s liberation because they showed that a woman can be and do whatever she wants without the care of what society thinks, it can also show how important it is for them to have the same equal and opportunities as men since they will fight hard for their rights. Women must discover their potential and begin to react against the forces obstructing them from their goals. Only when large numbers of people demand a change to their oppression are they taken seriously. 

How do these pieces show that “the personal is political”?

While reading the articles “The Politics of Housework” and “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” it shows how women is interpreted by society with a very old cultural mind with the thinking that they can determine the woman body and desire  the personal is political, meant something really profound about how they understood their lives in relationship to larger political struggles. It’s mostly just like, a woman who is not in the workforce, and is a homemaker. The  husband works and the woman has to  find that they are unfilled or I feel oppressed or depressed or put down or ignored or lacking in a certain kind of personal dignity in terms of the autonomy of their life . The husband  has total control of the household. Making feel the wife to  almost kind of subaltern, and tend to be  a person who’s sort of subordinate their husband  which make all the time feel depressed but have to follow society norms and expectation. 

How are suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment related?

suffrage , labor right, and the equal rights amendment are related because it’s about humans having the same right and equality as a person, because of people not making it easy for other just because of their gender it lead the women’s suffrage movement that  was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy at all. The labor rights was to protect the rights of the workers to be treated equally and fairly without any injustice but to be giving the payment they deserved, while the equal right was all about women and men being treated equally and not to generize them because of their gender. 

How/why are labor rights also issues of gender justice?

Because women make a part of the economic and social fabric that hold their communities together,  but yet their work is rarely valued at the same level as is men’s work. And this is due to the less opportunities they have as men. Women are disproportionately likely to be poor, under-educated, employed in low-wage or unpaid work, .In many companies, female workers are sometimes  denied their rights to regular pay and regular working hours; equal pay for equal work; permanent contracts; safety and freedom of association. They are even sometimes abuses, including sexual violence, harassment in their workplace making them not feel safe. 

How do you see these historical issues enacted in today’s society?

 It is much more better in today’s society because now there’s law that protect those right and equals, but however it is still a problem because soem women do not feel same at all i  their workplace and they still facing not giving the same opportinies as men such as better position at work just because they are women and some workplace still have the mindset of men can do it better, and use the excuse as women can’t be professional because they are emotional. 

Patriarchy is a concept referring to a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems for the unequal relationship between men and women. It’s been over years and years that men have the greater power over women including trans men, patriarchy allows men to have to maintain the position of power, privilege, and leadership in society. Women are in subordinate positions by both structural discrimination and ideologies that legitimate and rationalize that situation. 

Personal: we tend to believe that men are strong than women and always have a role that put for men and women especially in the household when they made us believe that men should be the ones going to work and providing for the house while women sit at home cook, clean and take care of the household with the children since it’s a belief that women are weaker and should not be in the workplace.

Interpersonal: Patriarchy can create conflict among men as well as between men and women. As men jockey for positions at the top of patriarchal hierarchies, some men use violence to offset the shame they feel at not being in a dominant position especially when women have a better position in the workplace, they would feel like women can’t tell them what to do. Women are now forced to work to provide financial stability for their families with also unpaid domestic labor. Although patriarchy literally refers to the rule of the father, it also applies to men’s interactions with other men who are not family members. These changes have implications for shifting patterns of violence within individual relationships and communities.

Institutional: where women have the right to inherit properties and other economic assets, a bunch of practices such as emotional pressure, and social sanctions prevent them from obtaining actual control over them, and some laws diminish the rights of women. All levels of politics are dominated by men, women function within the structure laid down by men. 

cultural/structural: Due to some cultures still believe until now that men should never be equal to women because we are considered weak and have to be obedient. In some households women have no say in how the house should run, even when it is time to cook they tend to ask the men in the house what they should make for dinner or lunch. I still see a lot of cultures that normalize the fact that men should dominate women and that we have to follow their back.