Food Zheng Reflection 2

This week’s reading was very interesting but at the same time it made me realize how hard was for the people with different identity categories. I also learned that, to be able to support different people with different categories of identities is to be able to learn more about them and integrate into the movement, defend them and not ignore the fact that they are there. There are times that I felt like many people supported the LGBTQIA2S+ movement to join the trend but they didn’t really feel committed to this movement. Maybe there are people who do this, but it also made me realize that maybe the majority of everyone who was in this movement was people who felt repressed and wanted to be able to find a way to stand up and fight for their principles. Alok also explains to us, about how the different categories of identities have to do with their biology. But this has more to do with the fact that some people do not feel good about the sex they were assigned at birth and society comes to criticize the fact that they do not feel good. When it should be a right, to be able to explore how you really feel and what you would like to be, without having to listen to how others tell you what is wrong or be criticized in the process. In the same way, knowing how many people do not find a way to show who they really are because of how they were raised throughout their lives made me helpless. I feel that the fact that many people are there criticizing or not accepting what someone feels like their true self, is for the same reason that since we were little we have always been told about what is correct and what is not, saying about how there are only two genders and not a variety beyond what they teach. Why does society focus on teaching what is right and what is wrong, instead of focusing on what people or the child feels? If we focused more on the feelings of others, there would not be so many people repressed with theirself.

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  1. Miranda C.

    I like your response to this weeks reading Food and share some similar thoughts. It is honeslty sad to think about the people who don’t really get to live in their truth out of fear. In reality there are so many people pass and present who struggle/ struggled with gender binary issues only now there is a name for it and people pushing for change !!

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