FEMST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, Teen Mom, Model Minority
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Latina teens critique abstinence: critiqued sexual shaming practices & racial-gender biases, stereotyping & discrimination, critical of how educators pushed long term contraception technologies like depo provera; practiced/tested on woc, as second generation immigrants/migrants from mmx and. Promiscuous latina or teen mom: still resisted shaming teen moms in their community. The chonga : lwo class, slutty, tough, crass, usually used w/in cuban (caribbean) community in miami, sense of sexual power. Sexual-aesthetic excess: notion of latina women being too much - too latina, too loud, too sexy, too provocative. Sexualizing latinas in pop culture: stereotype that latinos are hypersexual and that"s threatening, normalizes discourses about latina women as breeders (immigration discourse, plays into ideas of criminalisation (i. e. latina excess must be reigned in or controlled via policing) Image justifies myth of american dream by portraying chongas as latinas who have failed to obtain it- not americanized , too. Reffy (denote recent cuban refugees), not middle class, not.
