WGSS 1105 Lecture 8: 10.5.16

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1105
• Professor: Sherry Zane

Document Summary

Systems of privilege & inequality intersections: race sexuality and gender transgression (society sees them as transcending binary) & socioeconomic class. Functions: dominant group establishes itself as the norm thereby marginalizing groups based on the difference from the norm. Hegemonic maintain power through ideology, cultural beliefs that are embedded within the culture as normal or natural . Proliferation of ideas: media is used as a system in pop culture to proliferate these ideas and gain support and active participation in what is normal and acceptable . Media: creates fear against the other keeping hegemonic group in power. Organizers have pushed to prioritize voices of black queer and transgender women. 2/3 founders identify as queer worked to draw attention to brutal murders of transgender women of color driven conversations on how anti-black portrayals in media and pop culture can have serious consequences on black queer and trans women"s live.