Two major themes from this week’s readings is gender and racial equality .In the poem, “And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You” by Carillo, it states “Our white sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us walking to the fields in hot sun with straw hat on head if brown bandana…” This line goes to show that due to these women skin color, their “white sisters” loved to see them at their lowest and struggling. In the reading “ The Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” (1977)” a statement that caught my attention was “we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression…” this expresses womens lack of freedom, struggle, their limitation in society, and being silenced in a way. I see these issues resonant today in jobs that do not pay fair wages to women as they would to men like plumbing and engineering, when it comes to racial profiling there is still a lot of that happening in this world and there has been a black lives matter movement. Things may not be as intense as before but it still is very much still occurring.
