Gender and Ability
My gender identity differs from what was assigned to me at birth
What is trans?
A private company buys an area of land for mining, profiting off the resources they extract.
What is capitalism?
In the United States, people any percentage of African ancestry were considered Black.
What is the one-drop rule?
How the media is created, who creates it, and why?
What is production?
Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy became a Grammy Award winner at the age of nine.
What is privilege?
I have the same gender identity that was assigned to me at birth
What is cisgender?
60% of the money in circulation in Canada is held by 20% of the population.
What is wealth?
In Superstore, main character Amy was upset about her co-workers speaking in an accent, making up stories of being a poor immigrant, and wearing a sombrero, to sell salsa. Why?
What is stereotype?
You watch an instagram reel of a "trad wife" making toothpicks from scratch. You see this as pushing the message of the importance of women remaining in the home.
What is content?
Assumes that all members of a
specific, gender, race, and sexual
orientation have the same, defining, qualities
What is essentialism?
In the video we watched of the kids playing with gendered toys, some of the boys refused to play with any "girl" toys. The marketing of toys to either "boys" or "girls" is an example of what social theory?
Social Constructionism
Social forces that tend to ‘press’ on people and
hold them down and block their pursuit of a good
life
What is oppression?
In the Hollywood Diversity Report, we learned that there is more white representation in actors, writers, and producers of film and television shows. The absence of some groups over the other is called...
What is symbolic annihilation?
The people who engage, consume, and interact with media messages.
What is audience?
The way in which something becomes common sense, common knowledge, and normal.
(e.g. Immigrants take our jobs, so it's only natural that ICE violently remove them.)
What is hegemony?
In the video "10 Things People with Disabilities Wish you Knew." We heard of non-dominant perspectives of disabilities that challenged our thinking. This is an example of what kind of narrative?
What is counter narrative?
Kylie Jenner's daughter Stormi, flies twice a week in a private jet. Your cousin can't afford a car and instead uses public transport to get them and their child around the city. The difference between the two is?
What is class?
A Black, female, and queer identifying person is facing multiple injustices within their workplace.
What is intersectionality?
You and your friends discuss the impact and meaning of the show Euphoria.
What is discourse?
Reality and knowledge is created and maintained through society, culture, and language/
What is social constructionism?
Foucault's theory of how oppression and dominance are circulated throughout society
What is power?
A process where race is created, defined, and transformed through power and conflict, based on social, economic, and political forces.
What is racial formation?
A media theory that organizes and structures the meaning of a message. (eg. Euphoria is about high school teens and drugs)
What is framing?
The multiple groups that you claim or claim you.
What is identity?