Author: Nathaly Peguero

I really enjoyed what they were talking about. It is really important to focus on healthy relationships. I do believe that a person we choose to form part of us, needs to be someone who can support us in all of the ways that you can imagine. When we are around negative vibes that what we are gonna feel, it’s the same as positive. So, it is important to be around positive vibes. Someone who can support, motive, help and others. After the presentation I realized many things and made me put in practice many things. Us in college, we do not need someone who’s gonna distract us or make us lose our time and opportunity to study. We always need someone who’s gonna help and motivate us. 

Basically the story “Out in the night” is about a group of young friends, African American lesbians. They were out in the gay neighborhood of New York City. One of them is Renata a single mother and Femme Patreese Johnson. The group of them were walking in this area and an older man sexually and violently confronted them. He says to Patreese “let me get some of that” as he points below her waist. When she says that they are gay, the man becomes violent and threatens to “fuck them straight”. He is acting like because they are gays, they need a man. It is typical when a man sees a couple of girls together and says, “you just need a good man.”  However, we need to accept and respect any decision that others make about themselves. 

In the seven years since the CR-INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex first came out in 2001, a number of local and national groups and organizations have heeded its call and worked creatively and collectively toward making its vision a reality. It is important that after twenty year INCITE was created as a national radical feminist of color organization, here to help and protect people with interpersonal and state violence. I did a research and it says, “Abolition feminism is a liberatory visión of a world free from all forms of violence including gender violence and the violence of police and prisons.” This is important for everyone because it is important to society to feel safe and be protected. Living without violence. 

Feminism is an ideology advocating for women’s rights on the grounds of equality for the sexes. Moreover, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. From the past until now, people think that feminism is about women seeking to be equal to men. Thinking gender equality, equal pay for equal work, and sometimes women and men sharing household chores and parenting. I was doing some research and I found that Sex  is a biological differences term-40between men and women – their body shape, size, and sexual and reproductive organs. Also, gender is used to explain the ‘innate character’ of men and women e.g women are sensitive, emotional and caring while men are confident, logical and responsible. I quote that I was looking and made me think a lot is this one that says, “As contemporary feminism progressed, as women realized that males were not the only group in our society who supported sexist thinking and behavior that females could be sexist as well, anti-male sentiment no longer dominated the movements consciousness.” Women have many opportunities in society.  

A form of Feminism that aspires to the goal of sexual equality, whether by formal rights, control of resources or personal power. In society we still see how there is not equality in many ways. Many people treat others depending on who they are or what they look like. I know that many trans* do not feel safe in society or comfortable, but it is time to understand that everyone is able and free to choose what they want to be or do. Social media is one of the main ways to harass others. Too many people are uncomfortable and unsafe when they do not feel part of the society.

Redstockings of the Women’s Liberation Movement, is a radical feminist group. The Redstockings were influenced by Marxism, submission to male supremacy was a conscious adaptation to their lack of power under patriarchy, rather than internalized brainwashing on the part of women. Based on “The Politics of Housework” talks about how housework needs to be divided on everyone such as men and women. The reality on today’s day, women are the ones responsible for doing every single work at home. For sure it’s gonna be easier if everyone at home should do some of  the housework. Working as a team and never forgetting that women are not the only one that can do it. Let’s talk about “I Want a Wife.” It shows how a man it’s looking for a wife to take care of the child. The man is showing how without a woman, the child is not gonna be treated the same. But the reality is that men are also able to take care of the children. Men need to realize that they can, they are able to take care, to cook for their children, bath them, wash their clothes etc. 

What do you see as the relationship between women’s movements and abolitionist movements? While I was reading and doing research about the topic, I found that the relationship between the Abolitionist and Women’s Rights Movement is that both movements reinforced one another. Becoming an abolitionist enabled women to speak in public and to criticize the institutions of American society that denied them. Moreover, The Second Great Awakening discussed women as moral reformers of family and society. Over time, women reformers realized that they lacked many of the same rights that they were seeking for others, and began to work for expanded rights. Women’s rights and freedoms were severely limited in the 1800s. They could not own property, rarely received a formal education, could not vote, and they could not hold office.