Based on the most recent events revolving around abortions as well as who may be allowed to go about said procedures are wavering. The overturning of Roe V. Wade in the article “Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows” one can see that another important topic is why pro-life and pro-choice activists think the way they do around the topic of abortion. To build an argument that helps one understand why abortion is necessary to some and unnecessary to others. According to said article, “Much of Alito’s draft is devoted to arguing that widespread criminalization of abortion during the 19th and early 20th century belies the notion that a right to abortion is implied in the Constitution.” My overall thoughts, illustrate the imbalance of what is actually morally right within one’s society, while also demonstrating how long these morally imbalances has affected us as individuals. Adding on to why woman are always expected to keep a baby not because she or anyone else wants it, but for the sole purpose of reproduction.

The political-economic order is made up of various variables, one of which is race. Black women in the United States have the highest abortion rates in the country. This is due to the significant financial disparity between white and black households, which persists even within poor families. Within the documentary, Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, There’s this sort of insight of those who may be considered in the minority being that there where these different cases of woman attempting the scrap together anything they have to just afford an abortion. The Documentary states, “The discriminatory hide amendment is a woman’s health catastrophe, In affect it makes abortion only an option for the wealthy”. For example, In the minority community black children and black women are heavily fetishized for not only their features, but their style and hair as well. So there have been many instances where a woman could be raped, or forced to have a child simply because someone wanted the features, and now that child has to grow up being the abortion that never happened, and to live with that could definitely do some serious psychological damage which infact will render that child traumatized . This kind of rationale, banning abortion for the sake of reproduction, completely eradicates any sort of sensible reasoning a woman may or may not have for actually wanting an abortion.

Humanities need to reproduce isn’t because life is valued, it’s because society has a need “to continue the endless cycle of human production” Is one of the most vital aspects I feel as though has stuck with me. Following the article, Telemedicine Abortion Provider Rebecca Gomperts Gets Abortion Pills Into the Hands of Those Who Need Them: ‘It’s a Privilege’ revealed a side to what it may look like for woman trying to help other woman in what we can all relate to “In addition to delivering abortion pills by mail, Gomperts has continued to find creative ways to get pills into the hands of women. Over the last decade, Women on Waves has deliveredabortion pills by ship to women in Morocco, Guatemala and Mexico; by drone in Poland and Ireland; and by robot in Northern Ireland, Poland and Mexico“. Showing us that there will always be a way for what is morally correct to be done, if even once defied.

Tittle: “Wallflower” Pretty Can Be Powerful

Artist: Jessica Watts

When I first discovered this artwork, I believe I was in my freshman year of high school, I was so taken with it that I made it my lock screen for a while. It always stuck out to me not only because of the eye-catching colors, but also because of its healthy message. Watts uses fun patterns and vividly colored blossoms to highlight the self-possessed woman’s strength and beauty.
This series of emotional paintings portrays an unnamed female figure standing in front of a backdrop inspired by a real-life wallpaper design. Most portrayals disguise the subject’s nakedness with bouquets bursting with textured blossoms. Thick brushstrokes mold the petals of the flowers, emphasizing their form and making them stand out against the flatness of the patterned surfaces. These details are what create great meaning when it comes the importance of woman power and the things that will be needed to accomplish woman power.

After thorough analysis of the article “A Birth Story” Written by Dr. Dana-Ain Davis Obstetric racism, who would have imagined that among the many disadvantages faced by blacks and other people of color, obstetric racism would be a thing, LeConte’s experience is tragic yet not as an surprising example of what many black women and women of color face while receiving medical treatment, whether for neonatal, postpartum, or other reasons. Before reading this, I would not have thought racism was a problem in a hospital while giving birth in this day and age. Although, according to the story, it has been a problem since Jim Crow laws were enacted. It is not about the hospital. It’s not about being disgusted with your baby being black or them using racist language to describe a pregnant woman, it’s about how they were treated during the procedure or the acts taken. At the start of the article, it seemed as though the story would be about a single person who had insulted and inflicted suffering on a patient, but learning that at least three members of the medical staff had neglected and degraded LeConte is beyond anyone can ever truly imagine. LeConte had to deal with disrespect and abuse, she spoke up when she was in agony, but this did not lessen the level of coercion she faced. Worse, after suffering through the agony of being shot with too much epidural and two days of induction, she had to walk herself and her newborn to the postpartum area. 

The publication of Vice by Diana Tourjee sparked a debate on how the passage of a rule to allow discrimination against trans people in health care will harm and affect the lives of trans people in the United States. They allowed some folks to speak up about how they felt about being trans and losing their right to health care. Many of them are good working citizens, such as taxpayers, pediatricians, military personnel, and college students, who discuss why they need health care, how strongly they oppose this rule, and the discrimination they encounter.

It ultimately boils down to one thing, the importance of the feminist movement, the style in which the stories are told has an impact on my understanding of medical discrimination and/or other aspects of gender we have examined this semester. It is horrible to learn about the oppression and exploitation that women, particularly women of color, face. All of the things we’ve addressed have had an impact on how I perceive adequate education, because recognizing the root of the problem is the first step toward creating a better tomorrow. I can honestly state that knowing about the females in the Period. End of Sentence, having to work together was breathtaking because it shows how everything is possible when we stand together.

Identity is used as a tool to define political claims, promote political ideologies, or motivate and orient social and political action, typically in the context of inequity or injustice, with the goal of establishing group distinctiveness and membership and attaining power and respect. I believe that political education, organizing, and reading are the only ways for people to comprehend that this system does not serve the working class and poor. These individuals with a “seat at the table” have access to enormous wealth. They already have a lot of power. These individuals uphold and protect the interests of the ruling class. The dream they’re selling us is not the dream of the working class or the poor, and the only way to unlearn it is via political education. Alicia Garza, from what I gather, has a Marxist philosophy and aspires to work toward socialism, so how did we get to the point where Black Lives Matter has gone to the Grammys and become a co-opted capitalist thing was always another question I eventually had. Activists have used Tamir Rice’s name in advertisements and public performances, but his mother has come out to inquire and demand where the actual justice and discourse about police brutality and racial violence lies beyond the staged actions. There are activists profiteering from Black Lives Matter, which divides us and misses the entire objective of the liberation struggle.

In the reading “Too Latina to be Black, Too Black To Be Latina”, by Aleichia Williams it was clear that understanding your identity alongside how it is perceived in the light of social construct in highly fundamental, Williams speak about her in depth perspective on what is was like to sometimes feel locked into a specific box based off what she may look like and even speak like. In the reading “Too Latina to be Black, Too Black To Be Latina”, by Aleichia Williams it was clear that understanding your identity alongside how it is perceived in the light of social construct in highly fundamental, Williams speak about her in depth perspective on what is was like to sometimes feel locked into a specific box based off what she may look like and even speak like. But instead of allowing these mere minded factors negatively impact her she uses them with an emphasis on the amount of control every other individual who may be in the same situation has. Stating, “I’m learning to embrace every aspect of my identity and not let small minds put me in a box that just doesn’t fit. I’m Latina. I’m black. Also, I’m human. No one can take that from me.” (Williams) Instead of allowing these mere minded factors negatively impact her she uses them with an emphasis on the amount of control every other individual who may be in the same situation has and using that power correctly is what matters.

One aspect I’d like to look more depth of may be woman’s workplace equality. While women continue to strive for representation and acknowledgment in the workplace, there are difficulties that go beyond the office. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, women are overrepresented in businesses such as education, healthcare, and hospitality, while they are underrepresented in fields such as software development, law, and agriculture.

From 1974 through 1980, the Combahee River Collective was a Black Feminist Lesbian organization. This interdisciplinary group was formed in response to a perception that neither the feminist nor civil rights movements were adequately representing the interests of Black women and lesbians. The Combahee River Collective Statement, which was an important document in the development of contemporary Black Feminism, was created by the collective. In the 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.” The statement is widely regarded as one of the most persuasive texts created by Black feminists, highlighting an aspect of intersectionality that previous documents had rarely addressed. It connects societal problems that are unique to women and Black people, such as sexual and racial discrimination and homophobia, to provide a vital lens for moving toward a solution.

Before becoming aware of the concepts of sexual politics, patriarchal domination, and, most significantly, feminism, the political analysis and practice that we women employ to fight oppression, many black feminists write of their sentiments of madness. Black female politics are inextricably linked to Black liberation movements, particularly those of the 1960s and 1970s. Many of us were involved in those movements (Civil Rights, Black nationalism, and the Black Panthers), and their philosophies, goals, and methods influenced and transformed our entire lives. Our experiences and disillusionment inside these liberation groups, as well as our experience on the fringe of the white male left, prompted us to establish a politics that was anti-racist and anti-sexist, unlike white women’s, and unlike Black and white men’s. There is certainly a personal genesis for Black Feminism, that is, the political realization that arises from individual Black women’s ostensibly intimate experiences. Sexual oppression has been a persistent part in our day-to-day lives for Black feminists and many more Black women who do not identify as feminists. We noticed that we were different from boys as children and that we were treated differently. For example, we were encouraged to stay quiet both to be “ladylike” and to make us less disagreeable in the eyes of white people in the same breath. The political and economic dimensions of queer of color critique were suggested in the film “Paris Is Burning.” It was an attempt to steer sexuality discussions toward race and economic critiques. As a result, the formation spoke to Marxism, ethnic studies, queer studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist studies. Queer of color criticism also established a framework for examining cultural formations as registry of race, political economy, gender, and sexuality intersections. 

Despite its emphasis on freedom and equality, capitalism and its attitude toward civil statuses and exploitation examines the origins of racism in capitalism, as well as its indifference to the social identities of the people it exploits. As a result, looking at racial oppression as a tool for capitalist control of the working class. Finally, it emphasizes the crucial contrast between oppression and exploitation. These disparate relationships also have extremely varied effects on social agents’ and groups’ conduct, as well as their life opportunities and forms of social conflict.