Who?
Gender non-conforming writer and activist popular for their poetry on challenging the gender binary.
Who is Alok Vaid-Menon?
The ideas and perception that imperial powers had about the people from North Africa, the Middle East, and other parts of Asia
What is Orientalism?
Not limited to fashion, it is shown in the way marginalized queer communities portray their struggle and hardship in their every day lives
What is fabulousness?
Colonial establishment that exhibited indigenous peoples' in order to perpetuate an idea of white superiority, living representations of colonialism
What are human zoos?
The founder of the Me Too movement
Who is Tarana Burke?
Mestizo woman who helped the Spanish conquistador, known as multiple identities such as scheming, motherly, and victim
Who is La Malinche?
Too dumb to know the value of their money, sexualized belly dancer, violent, savage, and terrorists
What are inaccurate stereotypes of Arabs portrayed by Hollywood films?
Canadian lesbian youtuber who gained popularity from her vlogs documenting her transition, fashion, and make-up
Who is Gigi Gorgeous?
Beliefs that postulate past or present superiority of Europeans over non-Europeans
What is eurocentrism?
The #sayhername campaigns goal
What is raise awareness about the women who were victimized by police brutality and ignored in the media?
Syrian-American rapper and activist known for her feminist lyrics, keep swaggin' my hijabis!
Who is Mona Haydar?
USA in favor of Israel over Palestine, 9/11, the Gulf War
What are political motives for Hollywood creating negative stereotypes of Arabs in American films?
Hip hop music originating in New Orleans and popularized by Big Freedia
What is bounce?
Helping to construct colonial mentalities or to justify imperialist agendas of colonial powers
What are political motives of human zoos?
The central axis around which policing takes place
What is gender?
Author who wrote Orientalism, which theorized why Western cultures view people from the Middle East the way they do and explained the impact of Orientalism on the West's view of people from the Middle East
Who is Edward Said?
The central figure of Orientalism in the sexual context
What is a harem?
Asking someone how they're getting home, checking in on them to see how they're doing, asking how you can make them feel safe, calling out bigotry when you can
What are ways you can treat someone as fabulous besides just admiring them for entertainment when they turn a look?
Human zoos promoted this when it didn't exist onto natives that they showed off in zoos
What is the gender binary?
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
What is intersectionality?
Women who practice witchcraft of African/Latinx origin, the movement is seeing a resurrection by modern-day feminists.
Who are Brujas?
Movie where a so-called "righteous slaughter" takes place in order to demonize Yemeni civilians in order to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Arabs
What is Rules of Engagement?
Trans issues are cis issues
What is a reason why people should care about trans-issues even though you don't identify as trans?
Congolese pygmy displayed at the World Fair in 1904
Who is Ota Benga?
Controlling images that was designed to make racism, sexism, and poverty appear to be natural, normal, and inevitable parts of everyday life designed to objectify black women as the other
What is the mammie figure?