Based on this weeks readings, it’s all about the injustices women have faced in our society due to gender and racial discrimination. Many women aren’t given the respect they should have, they are always treated as if they were inferior to others . For example in the reading “And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You” by Carillo she wrote about the racism in the women’s movement. When she says “White sisters radical friends love to own pictures of us” what she’s trying to say is that white women try to portray colored women as if they were happy, when in reality they suffer on a daily basis. Those women would probably look happy, but at the end of the poem Carrilo says “We’re not as happy as we look on the wall”. If white women were to see their reality their perspective would change because their lives are not the way it looks on a picture.
Also, in “A Black Feminist Statement” written by the Combahee River Collection, a Black feminist lesbian socialist group, it’s about the role that women hold in society. Women’s are constantly struggling through many discriminations based on who they are. As I said before many times women are treated more inferior compared to men. Even until this day, men has gotten so much power into thinking just because of their gender women shouldn’t be treated the same way they are. Not only that, but Black women are probably the ones that suffer from most discrimination even until this day.
