• This is not a space to proselytize. Please base your response on the readings and video. Please note that you will not likely change your classmates’ or my opinions on abortion.
• What, if any, reactions did you have to the leaked document about Roe v. Wade?
• What did you learn from the readings from this week and/or what were you reminded of that you think is important to keep in mind right now?
• Also, don’t forget to watch one of the videos from last week about various activists.

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday, May 10, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 14“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 14.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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This week, rather than writing a long prompt, I would like you to share some art and a few sentences about why you chose it. You can either make the piece of art or find it and share it. It could be an image, a video, a piece of writing, etc. Please

• Share it in a post
• Be sure to tell us who made the art
• Tell us why you chose it and how it is activist to you (there are no wrong answers)
• Please feel free to talk about the readings in your reading reflection.

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday, May 3, 11:59 pm. 

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 13“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 13.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

More Help:

• Here is a video tutorial on how to publish a post.If you want to understand the difference between a post and a comment, see this help document.

This week’s readings and film all address medical or health concerns of different groups, and how those concerns are impacted by social stigma and oppression. In your discussion post for this week, please address the following:

• What surprised you in the readings and film?
• What connections could you find across the readings and film?
• How does the format in which the stories are shared impact your understanding of medical oppression and/or other aspects of gender we have discussed this semester?

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday, April 26, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them
• 400 to 500 words. Longer, but not shorter, posts are fine. To view your word count, click the info symbol at the top of the post draft!

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 12“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 12.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

More Help:

• Here is a video tutorial on how to publish a post.
• If you want to understand the difference between a post and a comment, see this help document.

This week, your responses can be shorter. We have several weeks where we can explore “topics” in gender and women’s studies. This can be very broad and so I am asking that you include in your post this week, some areas you would like the class to explore. So this week, please respond to the following:

• 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?

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday, April 19, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them
• 250 to 500 words. Longer, but not shorter, posts are fine. To view your word count, click the info symbol at the top of the post draft!

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 11“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 11.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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• 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.”
• What does the Combahee River collective mean by “identity politics”? How do you see this operating in Paris is Burning?
• What do race and gender have to do with capitalism?

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday, March 29, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them
• 400-600 words. Longer, but not shorter, posts are fine. To view your word count, click the info symbol at the top of the post draft!

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 10“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 10.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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• Here is a video tutorial on how to publish a post.
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This week you read two pieces that were written in 1970. In “The Politics of Housework” Pat Mainardi makes a distinction between the Liberated Woman and Women’s Liberation. In “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” Anne Koedt calls for a reexamination of women’s sexual pleasure. (Note: these pieces were written in 1970, and “women” means “cisgender heterosexual women” in this context.)

• What do you understand the liberated woman to be?
• How might the liberated woman be important for women’s liberation?
• How do these pieces show that “the personal is political”?

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday March 22, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them
• 400-600 words. Longer, but not shorter, posts are fine. To view your word count, click the info symbol at the top of the post draft!

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 9“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 9.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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This week, I’d like you to reflect on the history you have learned thus far in our history unit. Please consider the following questions:

• How are suffrage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment related?
• How/why are labor rights also issues of gender justice?
• How do you see these historical issues enacted in today’s society?

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday March15, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 8“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 8.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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This week is a free-for-all. Write about whatever you want for the discussion post. It can be related to the week’s readings, history in general, or anything we have covered so far that you still have questions about. Don’t worry about word count. Your post can be short this week. Please, however, make sure you address the reading/video in your reading reflection. Also, please hit the “Global Feminism” link and look around–see what interests you and let me know. Thank you.

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday March 8, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 7“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 7.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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Many feminists claim that capitalism is directly opposed to the goals of feminism which include equality for all and the erasure of all forms of oppressions.  The article refers to “gender mainstreaming” which is a policy mostly instituted in other countries:

“Gender mainstreaming means integrating a gender equality perspective at all stages and levels of policies, programmes and projects. Women and men have different needs and living conditions and circumstances, including unequal access to and control over power, resources, human rights and institutions, including the justice system. The situations of women and men also differ according to country, region, age, ethnic or social origin, or other factors. The aim of gender mainstreaming is to take into account these differences when designing, implementing and evaluating policies, programmes and projects, so that they benefit both women and men and do not increase inequality but enhance gender equality. Gender mainstreaming aims to solve –sometimes hidden- gender inequalities. It is therefore a tool for achieving gender equality.” (https://www.coe.int/en/web/genderequality/what-is-gender-mainstreaming)

Think about your own relationship to capitalism in the United States.

Have you been successful in the market place?  Why or why not?

What are your goals for your career? Are you confident you will reach those goals?

Finally, what would a feminist economy look like so that nobody is exploited? 

Format Requirements

• Due: Wednesday March 1, 11:59 pm. 
• Written in complete, well-formed sentences & carefully proofread
• Engaged with the assigned text by explicitly referring to and/or citing them
• 400-600 words. Longer, but not shorter, posts are fine. To view your word count, click the info symbol at the top of the post draft!

How to Create the Post

• 1) Click on the black plus sign in a white circle at the very top of the site (in the black bar) to start the post draft:

• 2) In the title box, type the title “[FirstName] [LastName] Discussion 6“.
• 3) In the body of the post, type your response to the prompt.
• 4) On the right side, choose the post category “Discussion 6.” Your post will not publish without a category.
• 5) Click the blue Publish button on the top right.

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