Definitions
Major Themes from Readings
Major Quotes from Readings
Major Themes from Videos
Miscellaneous
100
Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group
Colorism/Shadeism
100
Define integration and transformation, as it relates to the "Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory” reading
Integration is achieving equity through rightful inclusion. Transformation is reimagining established knowledge and the order of the things.
100
“fat studies challenges notions of pathology and encourages scholars to listen to the work and words of fat people themselves”
“1. Considering Fat Shame.” Amy Erdman Farrell. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. Pages 21-22.
100
Explain the overall message of the "Big Girl Movement" Video
While representation is not always easy to follow or gain, it important because it encourages transformation of the "social norm."
100
Queer is deemed as the overall umbrella for _________.
LGBT
200
A category of analysis and a system of representation, interpretation, regulation, transformation
disability
200
What is the process of understanding disability?
Representation, interpretation, regulation, and transformation
200
The authors believe that if you solve African American women problems/oppression, all oppression can be solved
“Black Feminist Statement,” The Combahee River Collective and Identity Politics. Page 210.
200
Describe the term ball, as it relates to "Paris is Burning"
An event that allowed some people to get close to their “reality” by being able to define themselves and create fame and fortune
200
Why should there be representation?
There should be more representation integrated, so the norm can be transformed
300
A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
Stigma
300
How does a back compare to a bridge?
The idea of progressive and regressive movement that connects people and cultures
300
“We are learning to depend more and more on own sources for survival, learning, not to let the weight of this burden, the bridge break our backs”
Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua. Ed. This Bridge Called My Back—Writings by Radical Women of Color. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. 1981. No Page No.
300
Describe the term vogue, as it relates to "Paris is Burning"
Since of art to create a name for yourself and a standard for your status
300
Descibe identity in the terms of Garland-Thomson..
Normalcy is simply an illusion, yet, we all desire to be normal. We can view ourselves as desirable based off what we do or do not see represented.
400
Denoting or relating to a world view that promotes heterosexuality as the normal or preferred sexual orientation.
Heteronormative
400
Describe the phrase "the personal is political"
our everyday life and identity is both important and politicized
400
“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that black women are inherently valuable that our liberation is a necessity not an adjunct somebody else’s both because of our need as human persons for autonomy”
“Black Feminist Statement,” The Combahee River Collective and Identity Politics. Page 212.
400
Describe the term house, as it relate to "Paris is Burning"
A particular bond with people; sense of community, even though, it may not be their born in community
400
Garland-Thomson utilizes the following four foci: Representation of…
1. The body 2. Identity 3. Activism
500
A range of sexual identities that are "not straight." The idea of challenging or shifting a "social norm."
Queer
500
How does Crenshaw and the authors of "Black Feminist Statement" share viewpoints?
Similar to Kimberlee Crenshaw, the authors felt like they were left out of both feminist and antiracist movements due to the single-axis analysis that existed in these movements
500
"Black feminist thought centers the struggle ‘against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression’ in order to create an ‘integrated analysis and proactive.’ They argue that ‘the major systems of oppression are interlocking’ and that the ‘synthesis of these oppressions create the conditions of our lives’”
“Black Feminist Statement,” The Combahee River Collective and Identity Politics. Page 210.
500
List at least three various cultures represented in “Out in the Night."
- African American - Lesbian - Prison
500
Give an example of the phrase "the personal is political"
reproductive rights, etc.
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