The quote, “We might use our position at the bottom to make a clear leap into revolutionary action.  If black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” this means that If black women aren’t free then none of us are free. Throughout the decade black woman has been fighting for rights, peace, and freedom. Today, there has been violence and discrimination against black women, until they have peace or the freedom that everyone else has then everyone, especially feminists will have the freedom they want. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the feminism movement has risen through decades, however, most of the feminism that was fighting for rights were known to be white and black men. No women who were African American have fought for women’s rights at the time and they were “quiet” during the feminist organization. Black women have given their unique venue to be against the system and fight for others and their own freedom, this how leads to the quote “If black women are it would mean that everyone else would have to be free”

Identity Politics means a movement of people of a particular region, race, or social background, to form an exclusive political alliance moving away from a traditional broad-based political party. Identity Politics can be seen operating the documentary “Paris is burning” because it chronics the “Golden Age” and a tradition that creates a new capacity for drag queens, gays, Latino, and African Americans to be involved in a community where they create themselves a new ability for self-worth, values, joy and crucially for family. This can be related to black women fighting for their freedom because there was a scene in which both the feminist and the civil rights movement didn’t reflect the particular needs of Black women and lesbians.

Race and gender have to do with capitalism because capitalism reduces the oppression of tradition societies that impose hierarchies of gender. Capitalism drives the changes in a way in which reduces either rising or falling gender inequality to a simple of different kinds of capitalism development. It doesn’t matter what race or gender you are, capitalism changes the inequality of different race and gender, this is the reason why black woman and other races today focus on oppression and race + gender have to deal with capitalism.

When reading “The Politics of Housework” by Mainardi, Pat being a liberated woman means women represent and freed herself society gives as a label man during the 60s. My understanding as to being a liberated woman they refer to a feminist who pushes for more equality for women. In the 1960s there were many women who fought against sexism in culture and policies and they want to change the expectation of what women should be outside of the household and inside the household. According to the reading, Mainardi has had examples of the stereotypes of women back in the 1960s, women had to be housewives and do much housework, especially taking care of the kids while men had to go out and work. They were often imaged as stay-at-home moms who were often dependent on men, in the reading, Mainardi stated “Man’s accomplished have always depended on getting help from other people, mostly women. What great man would have accomplished what he did if he had to do his own housework?” This quote explains that men are not only dependent on their wives for housework but their mothers too. This is the reason why liberated women are important to society because there the ones that want a chance to end sexism in society and for women to not only work as housewives but also work whether it’s in the office or in politics. The important part of women’s liberation is to make a change and destroy the stereotypes society put for women such as being in the kitchen all day, only wearing dresses, being dependent on a man, etc. In another reading called, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” another example that shows that liberated women are important and show the personal is political if women aren’t sexually attractive to males men will end up gaslighting them or slut shaming or mentally abusing them so they can be sexually attracted to males. In one of the readings, Anne explains that Freud’s recommended cure for women who were frigid was to put them in psychiatric care or another word was to put them in a mental hospital because they were “suffering” and failed her role as a natural woman. This can be based on personal is politics because when a woman breaks the role as being a woman, society believes that it is a mental illness and needs to be cured so they can get back to their original role as a female.

Sufferage, labor rights, and the equal rights amendment are all related because they are seeking class for women and working-class people, the purpose of the equal rights amendment stated that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution apply to equality to all people regardless of sex. All of these are related to fighting for human rights and for equality, it doesn’t matter what gender or sexual orientation it’s all about fighting for rights whether is the right to vote or to work. The reason why labor rights are an issue of gender justice is that gender justice means fighting for equality so all people regardless of their gender can thrive. Regardless of their gender, there have been jobs in that people are treated poorly, not getting paid enough, and also the way they have been treated in the job such as the boss can steal from their workers. This has been going on throughout history now jobs are trying to put gender-neutral bathrooms signs for that person who doesn’t identify as male or female or all genders can use the restrooms. The problems that are still going on are people having to work extra shifts and getting paid enough, another problem is people are not getting into promotions or job training opportunities because of their gender and their sexualities. They are not treated equally as everyone else and it is known to be a problem and the reason why labor rights are issues as gender justice. I believe that we are in a better position today than historical society, although they need to be some change such as getting paid equal, being treated with respect not caring what sexuality or gender they are. Compared to historical times especially from the industrial revolution there were new things that bring the economy high, the problem during that time was people including kids were working for a lot of hours and not having enough money and getting injured a lot, still leading them to work. This is going on today but the only difference is kids haven’t been working or getting injured, depending on what job you’re doing there have been people that have been doing a lot of labor work and not getting paid enough money. If you’re letting someone work on days where they’re supposed to have their day off or not give them a day off then they deserve to be paid more.

 There is a video on youtube that is called “Kids meets a gender non-conforming person. The video is about kids asking questions and being educated by a non-conforming. Nanta would begin to talk about gender non-conforming and gender nonbinary, some of the kids get confused and wants to be educated more while others support are interested in the topic and ask questions to Nanta about life being non-conforming. They would also ask kids questions about what makes a person identify as a male or female, during the video the kids were confused but they explains more about hearing the terms pink is a girl’s color and blue is a boy’s color. It’s interesting for the kids to learn about non-conforming and nonbinary along with sharing their own opinions and thoughts about non-conforming.

After reading and watching the film about activism I define activism as people coming together as a community together to change the world forever.

When watching the film United in Anger, I’ve many people shown anger and expressed it through peaceful protest, one of the protests I saw is about people joining together during the aids crisis to stop policies to threaten people who are sick with aids as if they’re a “danger to society” and all people are doing is fighting for their lives. In the film, they show people that reunited together and show the timeline of different protests through the different timelines, for example on October 11th, 1988 there were people who are protesting for Seize control of the FDA. It was Act up’s first national demonstration that forces the food and drug administration to approve and release drugs faster. In this film I notice that most people during the 80s were fighting not only for gay rights, but health in the gay community along with being feel like even though people who had aids were sick they want to be cure and be treated just like everybody else. When watching these activists fight for their rights, they’re using their voice and their action in a peaceful protest in order to fight for their rights. The reason why I added the word peaceful is because when I read “How to think like an activist.” I read a section from the French Revlution, sometimes activist are known to take justice whether it’s violent or not, in the french revolution, if anybody had disagree in what King Louis XVI ruled they would be excuted because of Louis abusing his power, this lead to the people putting him in the guiliting, killing him. When it comes with activism they tend to use their words or put action into something they’re fighting for whether it’s human rights or animal rights.

Growing up I was never engaged with activism until during pride and around the summer in Union Square where people were fighting for black lives matter, it was kinda scary at first because I’ve seen so many protest gone wrong by cops because they either arrest them for no reason; tased them; pepper spray, etc. I was with friends and I’ve felt safe being with friends and being with people who were willing to protect people in the group and the longer I join the movement the more I felt safe and fighting along with it. It was the best experience I ever had and because of my friend joining a lot of protest she decided to become an activist one there and I will be there to support as I begin to start my career as a forsenic psychologists. I just don’t know if you can do both and if you can then I will glad to not only become a forsenic psychologist but an activist too.

The word ‘patriarchy’ means a society in which male members have more social and political power than female members. It can be anywhere from the government to a family’s name comes from the male side of the family. Throughout generation, patriarchy developed from fathers, sons, uncles, and granddads and it begin passing down the male line and the female’s sovereignty decreasing. It is important to describe patriarchy as a system than an individual because it is a socially-constructed system in which males have the power and it factors from political leadership, business management religious institutions, economic systems, and many more right down to the family home where men are considered to be head of the household. This system has existed throughout the decade and patriarchy still exists. For example, if someone’s son holds the last name of the father who is famous, they want to continue holding the last name of their father’s last name, another example of patriarchy is where men make the rules while women stay home and take care of the kids. Patriarchy reinforces gender inequality against women by maintaining certain advantages in favor of men. Sometimes I believe patriarchy can be dangerous to women because it can lead to dangerous situations because can be disconnecting them from their emotions and frames seeking support as weakness. It can pressure men to conform to a narrow remedy to masculinity, to contend with one another, and prove their manhood by surrendering their individuality and denying their humanity.

Individuals can enact patriarchy through each level of oppression, while going through social media whether it’s Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook there have been women who are all about self-love when it comes to body hair, their body, or how confident they feel and they want to express it on the internet. There are women who are willing to dress whatever makes them happy and comfortable; however, there are times when patriarchy gets in the way because they are disgrading women what to wear and what not to wear based on their body weight, and especially believing that women cannot have body hairs and should lose some weight so they can look just like the models everyone sees on the magazines. This shows that patriarchy can work on each level of oppression influence one another because patriarchy is mostly shown as men showing male domination whether it’s cultural or social along with physical power to control women.