Watching these videos made me see how humans have no regard for human life. I say this because how could you know there’s a fire you have people in the building and just lock the doors to prevent them from accessing any way to escape. In my opinion, they rather see people jump to their death than help them escape. Fortunately, in the United States, there are laws that are put in place to alert workers when there’s a fire for instance the fire sprinklers but in most countries, I don’t have laws that protect workers from disasters like the one in Bangladesh. I believe people have to fight for what they believe in, for instance, human rights every person should have access to regardless of whether you are in a different country. Also, workers should have access to proper safe workplaces. Workers should not be fear to go to work or even have to choose between work or life. It just blows my mind how these workers had to jump in order for the family to have their bodies so they can get a proper burial and memorial service. NO family should have to ever be afraid or worried that their loved ones will never return home because of the work conditions they have to work at because they’re simply trying to survive or no worker should ever have to fear not ever seeing a family again because they’re simply trying to survive and support their families.

This was one of the toughest readings I have done in this class I was extremely confused but I am going to write what I understood. What I read was about the history of feminism. To my understanding, feminism is described to be a women’s collective activity to advance women’s condition. I understand this meaning to be that feminism is based on women’s business that can help advance in different ways and help have more equity with males.

In my opinion, not all females are feminists. We just want to be treated fairly and have the right we deserve. Again this assignment was very difficult for me to understand.

The film I chose to watch was “United in Anger,” I found this film to be very powerful and moving and the film also educated me on an issue I knew about but I was not very educated on. This film was about the aid epidemic and an advocacy group that goes by the name of ACT UP. The group ACT UP put up strong fights to make sure that people with Aids had health care, treatment, and overall had rights that they deserve. I found this movement to be very powerful because by protesting and never giving up hope they got their point across in situations that some thought it was impossible to fight for but those thoughts did not stop the group. I feel like ACT UP is a strong group of people that did not give up on what they believed they should have regardless of their illness. My final thought is that this advocacy group did its job by fighting against leaders that did not want to shed light on this epidemic. Today their work is being shown by having access to healthcare, treatment, and housing for people that have AIDS.

After the readings, it has given me a better understanding of what privilege is and what oppression is. Before reading these readings I was a bit skeptical to say that I am privileged because I did not have the best understanding of what privilege is. Now that I do have a better understanding of that privilege is, I understand that I am privileged to even in the simple ways. To my understanding, Privilege is having access or advantages that others may not have. I am privileged because I have a roof over my head, I can walk, I have access to education and I have food to eat, ETC. While in the case of oppression, I have always known that I was being oppressed. this reading just confirmed it even more. The reason I know I have been oppressed is because I have been treated unfairly due to the color of my skin, my mental illness, and even where I come from. My reason is a good way to define oppression. In my opinion, oppression means is having someone cruelly mistreating you because of your race, gender, age, or in my case your mental health. Being oppressed is by far the hardest experience I have ever had to go through because it made me very unsure and confused about myself. Not knowing what to define with really made me wonder who I really am. I have learned from these readings and the video never to take advantage of what you have because there are people without and wish they can have access to things that you are taken advantage of.

The reading Beyond the Gender Binary by Alox Vaid Manon was an easy informative read. After reading the excerpts from the book taught that people in society have no knowledge when it comes to gender non-conforming or non-binary people and when people do have the knowledge it is not accurate information. I felt like Alox just wanted people/society to become more informed about gender non-conforming or non-binary. In my opinion, people that are gender non-conforming or non-binary are humans too that deserve that same amount of respect and rights that anyone else gets. The fact that Alox states that gender non-conforming workers are not protected by civil rights laws really has me thinking about what is this world coming to. I also can not believe that such big departments in the United States like the Department of Justice, Center of Disease Control and prevention, or even the Department of Health and Human Services are all against people that are gender non-conforming and non-binary. If major departments like these are against them what do they expect society is going to be. How could people in this world be singling out others because of their preference for identity is. I find it really troubling and sad that people are really going through this. At the end of the day we are all humans, so people need to start at least respecting other people’s wishes regardless of their personal opinions. In the future before you state your opinions just have some knowledge of what the individuals are going through.

I found Sex and Gender 101 to be very informative as it gave me a better understanding of the difference between both sex and gender. I always wondered the difference between the two terms. Now that I read the article Sex and Gender 101, I definitely got a better understanding. Some information that I found informative was that there are three types of genders: Gender assignment, gender identity, and gender expression. This made me wonder what type I fall into. I believe I fall under the gender expression where I express my gender through the clothes I wear, the make-up I put on, or even the way I do my hair but another part of me is ok with my gender assignment which is female. While defining sex to be more of a scientific outlook. What I mean about more of a scientific outlook is that it explains the XY chromosome which means you will be assigned a male while the XX chromosome which means you are assigned a female. So I understand that sex and gender are two completely different terms. I am extremely excited that I learned the meaning of these terms because now I can inform others in my family that always wondered about the difference between these terms. I can’t wait to see what else this class has in store and the many things I will learn during this class. I will take what I learn and inform my family about the different terms we will continue to learn.