GWSS 200 Final UW Seattle
Oluo, "The Conversation I've Been Dreading" - Talks about situated knowledge: theory of
knowledge including sources (your experience), validity (understanding of what is true), limits (cannot
live other lives but your own). "How we know what we know and who can know". Mixed woman talks
about how her white mother believes she can empathize with black community but cannot. Awkward
conversations are not bad or taboo convos, they enlighten a mind through its mistakes
fair trade - An alternative to international trade that emphasizes small businesses and worker-
owned and democratically run cooperatives and requires employers to pay workers fair wages, permit
union organization, and comply with minimum environmental and safety standards.
19 Peterson, "Queering of States/Nations" - - argues that binary gender differences and
heteropatriarchal kin relationships have been constructed as "natural" as part of modern state-building
- nuclear family, thus constructed as basic socioeconomic unit of nation, requires regulation and policing
of women's sexual activity and biological reproduction
- argues that heteronormativity is political because it oppresses non-heterosexual by creating policies
that justify domination of feminine (androcentric construction)
1 Allen, "Who is your Mother" - - native american tribes often praised women and looked at them
as the highest authority
10 Pow, "That's Not Who I Am" - Pow tries to call out stereotypes of Asian Americans by
explaining that tropes such as slanted eyes and incorrect grammar don't define her and shouldn't define
anyone of her race. This applies to other cultures and races as well.
12 Kaye/Kantrowitz," "Jews, Class, Color, and the Cost of Whiteness" - -A "buffer group" hold both
privileges (usually economic) and disadvantages (usually racialized).
-buffer group not white, but not black
- Argues that Jewish people have been an important American buffer group, but assimilation has come
with cultural loss.
-Jews can pass as white and use those benefits
- "Permeability of racialized categories in this group demonstrates social construction of race.
,- "No one was white until they came to America"
13 Clare, "Body Shame/Body Pride" - - relates trans identity with disability; his main argument is
that there is nothing wrong or broken with disabled and trans people (they don't necessarily need a
cure), rather our society should make itself more accessible, because it is what creates the problems;
also makes argument that privacy is a privilege, and that ultimately self-determination is how disabled
and trans people can have power, by having authority over their own bodies and the right to say who
they are, want to be able to use diagnosis without being defined by it
14 Uechi, "Between Belonging" - author is japanese american
is white passing compared to his father and sibling
struggling to find a sense of japanese culture in america
16 Hernandez, "Even if I Kiss a Woman" - This writing follows the journey of a columbian woman
to find herself. In the beginning she is burdened by her family's expectations for who she loves.
Eventually she discovers her potential love for other women. She becomes fulfilled and attends feminism
seminars to learn more about her power.
17 Cruz, "(Mis)Playing Blackness" - This writing analyzes a youtube series called The
Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. It discusses the power of the internet to make changes for
minorities. It focuses on how black women use media to challenge dominant codes of their sexuality.
2 Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" - - sufferance of women under the government
20 Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic" - - the erotic cis a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply
female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling... For
women, a suppression of the erotic means a considered source of power and info within our lives-
pornography vs. the erotic are opposed uses of the sexualpornography vs. the erotic are opposed uses of
the sexual:pornography = suppression of true feeling, sensation with feeling; the abuse of feelings —>
giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity —> thus is a denial of power of the erotic+ the
erotic = a measure of our sense of self & our strongest feelings, sense of satisfaction we know we can
aspire, providing us knowledge.a reminder of women's knowledge and capacity for joyour erotic
knowledge empowers us + the erotic as power:-providing the power that comes from sharing deeply any
pursuit with another person. the sharing of physical, emotion, psychic joy that forms a bridge between
the sharers. They can understand each other more due to the lessening of the threat of their difference.-
the open and fearless underlining of women's capacity for joy-when we keep in touch with the power of
, the erotic within ourselves, we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. We begin to
give up to oppression and become motivated and empowered.-In order to be utilized, our erotic feelings
must be recognized-when we look away from the importance of the erotic we use each other as objects
of satisfaction rather than share our joy in the satisfying&makeconnections-recognizing the power of the
erotic gives us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world
21 Vō, "Transnational Beauty Circuits" - beauty standards around the world
22 Kristjansson, "Fashion's 'Forgotten Woman'" - Discusses cultural capital in terms of weight.
Some fat people are required to consume differently (especially true with regard to fashion). When "fat"
women perform traditional beauty that she is "not supposed" to have access to, this forces people to
rethink ideas about beauty and femininity.
23 Ross, "Understanding Reproductive Justice" - Reproductive Rights: "sexual rights" or having to
do with abortionReproductive Justice: links sexuality, health, and human rights to social justice
movements by placing abortion and reproductive health issues in the larger context of the well-being
and health of women... particularly important to marginalized communities.
24 Kafer, "Debating Feminist Futures" - This reading tells the story of a deaf lesbian couple which
purposely use a sperm donor from a deaf friend, in order to have a deaf child. There was lots of
controversy around this issue but there might not be the same controversy if a heterosexual couple had
a deaf child together.
26 Morales, "Radical Pleasure" - This article talks about how being sexually abused changes a
person and their relationship with sex. That you do not have visible scars, It talks about reclaiming your
sexual identity for your own delight.
27 Brown, "Indigenous Women Have Been Disappearing" - This article addresses Indigenous
women being murdered, raped, and disappearing and the lack of action from the government. There is a
lack of trauma care as well. Brown argues that they have to be the ones to demand justice since the
police do not do anything on their own account.
28 Henry & Powell, "Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence" - - internet serves as a breeding
ground for trolls, hackers, and criminal enterprises
