I’m so happy that we got to see Paris is Burning for this class because I wanted to watch it for so long. I watched POSE which is a series about transgender people of color in New York and we get to see a little bit about the ball scene, the creation of houses, and the negative impact of AIDS on the LGBTQ people of color community, mainly the transgender community. Watching the series made me curious about this lifestyle they had because it was something I never learned about and completely new to me, so I wanted to learn a little bit more about this. It is very admiring how a strongly marginalized society was able to turn their misery into something as joyful as the balls in order to make their lives more meaningful. Being born into a society that treats you as less of a human being because of the color of your skin it’s terrible because you have to work harder to prove your worth. If you add being homosexual or transgender to being a person of color, makes you very oppressed, making it harder to earn job opportunities, having to deal with constant discrimination, and therefore having a poor life quality. The balls are amazing because there, people are able to forget for a moment about all of the sufferings and get to, at least, dress up as the people they wish they could be. About the excerpt from “The Feminine Mystique”, I think it’s terrible how this idea of the “perfect suburban housewife” was sold to women since it stopped them from having a successful and fulfilling career and made them seem like male servants.