Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trans Woman, Intersectionality, Stereotype
1 Feb 2017
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Inorder to achieve peace there needs to be equality amongst humanity. People say pick one thing and focus on that inorder to achieve equality but this raises a lot of difficulty as there are so many differences that aid to inequality. All (cid:862)i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:863) issues of social justice cross fields this is called intersectionality. Even though many may not be regular they still can relate to the typical problems that a (cid:862)regular(cid:863) a(cid:373)erica(cid:374) faces o(cid:374) their e(cid:448)eryday li(cid:448)e. Dating exposes, her to how men sexualize her due to her skin colour and the lack of dialogue. Feels constant pressure as she is a different skin colour: ca(cid:374)(cid:374)ot (cid:862)ta(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) the su(cid:374, cannot speak openly about her relationships. Impossible for her to separate issues of race, ethnicity and gender. Dark skinned colour women do not receive the same respect that other women do. Treat the issue of transgender women and transgender colour women differently.
