Women should have the opportunity to be able to get abortions because, at the end of the day, it is their own body, and they should have the ability to be able to make their own decision that is best fit for themselves also Healthcare or government assistance should be available to them as well because a lot of women cannot afford to have an abortion depending how much it also cost Recently I have noticed in my experience seeing a lot of women from my high school are having kids now but they had kids mostly during the pandemic and from what I hear the pandemic has made things harder for them because now their kids don’t want to be social Outdoors that case should not be overturned because everyone has the right to decide what is best for them and if I have to be honest in a hypothetical situation where I have a kid I wouldn’t want to have an abortion but the final decision does come down to the mother but me personally I don’t believe in getting abortions because I do feel like that is a life that you are taking away and morally and mentally that that doesn’t sit right with me but like I said that decision that matters is the decision that the mother makes What I learned from the readings is that what people should do is protect and fight for Reproductive Rights but also Healthcare .

Ivan De Los Santos

Prof. Hollis Glaser

GWS 100-1300

Discussion 12

What surprised you in the readings and film?

Well, people think of menstruation in society. Transgender people are based around something that is not factual when it comes to the access that they have to be able to go to the hospital and get the appropriate Health Care is one thing that shocked me about the readings and the film because everybody should be able to have access or even have the proper Health Care for when they need to be seen by a doctor certain people shouldn’t be discriminated or pressed because we do live in the land of the free. Still, it also explains the societal norms that are going on.

What connections could you find across the readings and film?

The connections I could find across the readings in the film is that certain people feel alone and don’t have that support system, whether that is Healthcare or Society. For example, one that stood out to me was the Indian Community because they look at Hope based on physical attributes. For instance, in race, another prominent example is Community; it feels like transgender people are put on the back burner, and people in that Community don’t care about them as much. So if that being said, I feel like this has to change not only in the Indian Community but in society in general because all this oppression and discrimination against a group of people shouldn’t happen in 2023. 

How does the format in which the stories are shared impact your understanding of medical oppression and other aspects of gender we have discussed this semester?

It made me think of medical oppression in a whole different light because if I had to use myself. As an example, I’ve never had to go through that because the healthcare that I use covers everything for me, so I’m thankful to say that I have not gone through that bye to see how terrifying it is to people that don’t have any Healthcare or feeling oppressed by the medical system because for example if you are going to something life-threatening and society. Hospitals are not giving you the treatment you dese. That’s a problem, and I feel people need to stop looking for a reason not to like people because we are all one, ace, and we should all be one.

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

Identity politics is a significant aspect of the size of feminist groups, but it does not explain the importance of how it should be Updated. For example it needs to be updated because it needs to be shown that freedom is for everyone and that feminist groups aren’t here to try to be higher in the patriarchy it just stays how feminist groups want space for everybody, but identity politics started way before I was born and the core definition of identity politics was that it was based on a specific race gender Or social class for it to have a change in society, but I feel they shouldn’t be based on those things it should be based on wanting freedom for all, but in some ways, this movement has excellent stuff because it does seek for people who feel that they are less than or in other words oppressed to feel like they are apart of something that is going to change society but from my understanding it needs to go more in detail on WHO these oppressed people are But identity politics does help enforce change and Improvement in society when it comes to sex and gender and one of their common goals is to help people who feel that they have been discriminated or have not been given a  fAIR  Shots at life for example in the workplace. 

What topics would you like to explore as a class in the remaining weeks of the semester?

The topic I would like to explore and the remaining weeks of the semester is how abortion rights came to be. For example, I didn’t look into the whole case on abortion rights, so I would like to know how it went down. Also, I would like to take a deep dive into gender stereotypes because I feel like when it comes to men, women put stereotypes on men that if you as a man don’t fit those stereotypes, you are deemed feminine, which I feel that’s not the case.

Ivan De Los Santos

Prof. Hollis Glaser

GWS 100-1300

Discussion 10

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 I think there’s falling quote means is that for there to be changed or if these different struggles of Oppression, black woman women especially should take action, whether that is protesting and doing everything they can to stop these oppressions because if they fight for what they want, they will destroy the social norms the racism the oppression that they have gotten for years and has been caused due to white men in society also women want to be treated as equal. They still haven’t gotten it today, so they should take action.

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

Identity politics has to do with how somebody identifies themselves, but because of that, they must go to war. However, if the politics of society, for example, they have to fight against your sexual identity, your racial identity, your class identity, this concept is what black families use to help them combat The oppression they face and the social injustice. Women who identify as different things, such as binary trans, even the color of their skin, have experienced These struggles and have had the strength to explain those experiences in Paris burning.  They expressed how they want Society to be and how they see women living in society as equal but that they needed Unity to do it, but it showed that they are confident if they are together to fight for freedom. 

What do race and gender have to do with capitalism?

Race and gender have a lot to do with capitalism. For example, in history, capitalism was built on exploiting different groups based on race and gender, so that was the blueprint from the start. And if you want to go further into that, capitalism has to do with money, right? So by the expectation of black people back in the day when slavery was happening, the wealth of white people was built on that based on what I know from High School. Additionally, the gender pay Gap is a big thing in capitalism because it is all about exploitation, so that they would exploit these women for specific jobs. Still, they wouldn’t get paid as much as the men, devaluing women’s labor.