In some ways I feel I experience privilege by having water and food ,a roof over my head even school is a privilege. I feel privileged because I was born in the United States where I can truly achieve anything I put my mind to with of course some sort of struggle but still attainable. I say this because many people around the world do not have access to the things we do: food, water, school, even resources. I also have a supporting family even without a father figure. My mom did a great job raising us. In some ways that I feel I experience is that I am Hispanic and i come from a one parent household my mother worked day and night to provide for me my twin brother and two sisters. I also feel oppression do to me and my family living in the south Bronx in a three bedroom apartment with my mom, my grandmother and my siblings i sometimes never invited some of my friends over because i always felt that it was just a dirty area where my apartment building is i only invited over some of my friends that lived in the same area as me over because they went through the same thighs. After watching the video and doing the readings helps me define the concepts of privilege and oppression. My current definition of privilege is having easy access to things that other people don’t have easy access or just don’t have access to at all. Then the oppression definition that I believe is racism, sexism, hetero sexism lacking housing, education and healthcare. This is my definition of both privilege and oppression and I feel these both definitions that I gave also apply from the video and the readings that these are both very similar definitions.

What it means to move beyond the gender binary for alok is to see beyond a person’s gender or what you can see. What really matters is what’s inside and how that person feels and how they show that or exprice this in their life in general. To move beyond the gender binary is to see what’s inside of a person like their feeling, the way their mind works and thinks but also how they want to be addressed or seen by the people around them in which they feel comfortable in their own skin.

 I am a straight male and I identify as a man and that’s how I feel inside. I feel comfortable being a straight male because I do believe that people should see others past just two genders but for what and how that person feels or identifies inside. This to me is all that matters as a human is to understand each other. I respect anyone and everyone if you come up to me and say you identify as a woman, that’s fine because if that’s how you feel inside and that’s how you feel comfortable then express that. If everyone learns to respect each other and are able to feel comfortable around people who represent how they feel inside this one step into making this world a better place for everyone. There’s no reason why some people should be scared to go to certain places or do certain things because of how other people would react by using hate speech or physical violence even just looking at people a certain way and that’s just disgusting that some people would treat other people so horrible for expressing how they feel inside. 

What I understand of what movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression Means is that a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression is a movement by such a large amount of people that want to end sexism. Sexism in meaning Evaluating women less positively than men, Sexist Language to anyone, A belief that one sex is superior then another and etc. The sexist exploitation in meaning the profiting and achieving social or political from sexual exploitation of another person. A movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression for me as I see it in a way it means to me that this is a fight against any oppressors or any struggle that they may face. How this definition campers to what i thought feminism meant before i read the reading is equal rights for everyone this was my definition before the reading as i read the reading i see in a way it is in a way like this but also adding on to that definition by saying by overcoming all adversity and fighting in any way by Completing movements towards what people believed in. In the reading they spoke about how everyone has their own meaning when it comes to feminism such as women wanting gaining equal rights, feminist who hate men this is discussed in the reading that not everyone’s meaning of feminism is the same but it doesn’t mean that they are not feminist in their own right this is shown here “women who want to be like men. They do not even think about feminism as being about rights – about women gaining equal rights. When I talk about the feminism I know – up close and personal- they willingly listen, although when our conversations end, they are quick to tell me I am different, not like the “real” feminists who hate men, who are angry. I assure them I am as a real and as radical a feminist as one can be, and if they dare to come closer to feminism they will see it is not how they have imagined it”  The reading sex and gender 101 compared to what i believed before the reading witch was that gender was that i believed that psychologically there two genders a women and a man but i also believe that anyone is free to express them self as how they feel inside. In the reading it informs us that sex and gender are not the same thing because sex refers to our anatomy like sex chromosomes, sex organs etc. “Sex refers to anatomy and physiology. This includes sex chromosomes, sex hormones, sex organs, and external genitalia. I must note – most distinctions of “biological sex” are made off of the appearance of an individual’s external genitalia. External genitalia and secondary sex characteristics can most certainly be altered and there are medications that can change an individual’s hormonal chemistry or suppress puberty. Additionally, no two people have identical genitalia or hormonal levels. There is not one way to be male or female or intersex. I do not subscribe to the idea that an individual’s biological sex is unchangeable nor that it is their destiny. This article is meant to be a basic, foundational introduction to the differences between sex and gender, and it should be stated that everything mentioned here is much more complicated than this short article conveys.” A Person’s sex is what they are biologically but gender is the social and cultural roles that males and females are expected to subscribe to based on their biological sex. In the reading it says “Gender can be broken down into three main categories: gender assignment, gender identity, and gender expression.” When they say gender assignment they mean what gender you are assigned to depending on your sex. The gender identity is what you actually identify as and the gender expression is how you show it and display your gender to the world.

Hello my name is Josue Vasquez i am twenty one years old after this semester i will only be taking one more class so you can kind of say that this is my last semester i am a liberal arts student i am from the Dominican republic i was born and raised in the south Bronx I’ve lived here my whole life i grew up in a single mother home my mother is a very strong and independent women who raised five kids on her own my two sisters, my twin brother and my oldest cousin i am currently a full time student and i also work full time job when I’m done with school i will continue to pursue my career as a  sonogram technician