Author: Leticia Rodriguez

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Leticia Rodriguez 

Dr. Munshi 

GWS 100 

March 7, 2021 

How We Get Free Published 2017 by: Haymarket Books introduced by: Keeange-Yamahatta Taylor Speaks about black women feminist fighting for liberation of racial equality and black female oppression since 1974. She speaks of black women being extremely oppressed by and having a negative relation between American political system. She points out many factors that still is a problem today. Women face sexual oppression on a day-to-day basis and cannot escape that bias mentality in majority of men. We face it at home with our spouses, and at work with our colleges. 

Black women under political rule and oppression have been a reminder of racial and black female inequality for centuries. Black feminist leader gain not attention nor respect from our own government.  Black women face the oppression of slavery but, also face oppression of being a black women period. She writes that for years black feminist faced difficult times of pain and defeat. Through it all we must understand the fight is never over. Women must have a voice gain what we want and so much deserve. 

Oppression: By Frye

Leticia Rodriguez

2/11/21

What Frye means about oppression is that its correct meaning is misconstrued or misunderstood in many cases. Being frustrated or miserable/unhappy does not mean people are oppressed. Oppression is feeling your caged in unable to get out. like she refers to the feeling like a bird being caged up. Having bars all around him where is confined to a tight space.  

Oppression can be hard to see because of how the mind perceives oppression. Some people perceive oppression as being married and wanting to get out of it, which is not oppression it is a person which is miserable or frustrated with the opposite partner, while others believe oppression is systemic racism or sexual stereotypes on women which explain a better meaning on the word oppression. 

Women are oppressed as women being members of a certain race or economic class or group but men that are in that economic group are oppressed as well because of being of color but not men are not oppressed as men.  

Evidence to this statement by Frye is true today because, women do not make the same salary the males makes even if they carry the same job titles or positions. We have been labeled as homemakers even if we hold jobs to feed the family. We are sexually profiled by man and in some cases our own husbands. 

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My name is Leticia Rodriguez and i identify as she/her.  This is my first semester in college.  My major is psychology/sociology, and my passion is to accomplish getting my degree,  and work as a psychologist.  This interest has become more intense, when most of my family suffers from mental challenges.  Mental illness has been in my family for generations. I would like to closely study how to make a thought and stay with that positive though.  What worked for me, was changing my thoughts from negative into positive.  Of course it was easier said than done, but i was determined  not poison my brain and get myself ill.  I often saw  my mother go through episodes i couldn’t understand and felt desperate to help her,  and trying to understand mental illness around me was never easy. I feel drawn to understanding the different sides/levels to mental health.  I want to make a difference in the our community.

I started my journey working for the non-profits organizations community clinic as a distribution clerk in the health educational services, which offered therapy, acupunture, and psychiatry. I worked my way up becoming  an administrator for Domestic Violence Mental Health Shelter for Women.

In this chaotic and changing world can become in a terrifying world we leave behind for our future generations.  Most Americans today are suffering  from this terrible disease and are undiagnosed.  Let’s right our wrongs, and take a stand against mental illness. help is out there, and we need more professionals in this field  to make that goal happen.  If for us, let’s do it for our children.