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Event Response Assignment: International Women’s Day at the YWCA Kelsie McGee For the second event of the semester, I chose to attend the International Women’s Day celebration at the local YWCA in High Point. There were a wide array of cultures, traditions, and forms of art that were packed together in one small room, immediatelyContinue reading “Event Attendance Response”

I saw this trailer for a documentary series that is set to come out this March while researching for articles about women’s rights around the world, and this video really stood out to me. I thought it really related to the topics we have been discussing in class such as LGBT issues in Nigeria, andContinue reading ““My Rights are Fundamental””

I attended the play performed by the HPU Theatre department “Borrowed Babies”, the play was based in the years 1952 and 1982 and displayed the lives of a female professor, Mrs. L, 4 female students, and an orphan child named Katherine that they cared for as a part of their home economics course credit duringContinue reading “Event Attendance Response: “Borrowed Babies””

This is a quote from Okparanta, the author of the novel “Under the Udala Trees” we read in class. This quote really reminded me of the conversation we had in class about being blind to the reality of the lives of other women around the world, so often we do not see what is reallyContinue reading “Chinelo Okparanta”

After watching the video with Okparanta concerning LGBT rights being taken away in Nigeria, hearing her opinions on the reasoning for the hate against the LGBT community when for some time in the country’s history it was never an issue really resonated with me. Colonization took so much away from African culture so I wasContinue reading “LGBT in Nigeria”

This picture refers to the way Crenshaw describes intersectionality as a multitude of cross roads that could represent your race, class, gender, sexual orientation or other things, and the traffic that goes through these roads is seen as the policies and practices society uses that might leave out, or not take into consideration multiple facetsContinue reading “Intersectionality”

In class we spoke about the responsibility we sometimes feel to speak up on behalf of the women across the world that are still experiencing horrible and harsh living conditions, and the reasoning in some cases is simply because they are a woman. We also need to realize that our perspective of equal and just,Continue reading “Feminism”