Group 3

elevating often silenced voices

Understanding and challenging binaries

first piece African American scholars are quoted but not directly involved in the conversation

Sex

Gender

Audrey Lorde the masters tool will never dismantle the masters house and how she was only consulted briefly and was one of two black women who were approached
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Sexuality

Language, culture and education shapes the ways in which we view the world

the silencing of the Hawaiian language and how that directly involved binaries into their society #

intersectionality

Marywolestonecraft: Women are taught to be obedient rather than rational

Representation in origin stories #

Genesis

Skywoman Falling

Fausto-Sterling's discussion on intersex representation in medicine

The Feminine Mystique and women's unhappiness inside the home

Connection between gender roles and capitalism — society is built upon the nuclear family, traditionally built upon a male breadwinner

Anna Julia Cooper: Women must add the heart to capitalism

QUEER THEORY: 1) Gender/sexuality are not fixed; 2) gender/sexuality are not binary; 3) no abnormal/normal when considering gender/sex

combahee river collective- the movement needs specific direction to be able to help those who need it and must be specialzied

Kimberle Crenshaw's discussion of how African American women are invisible within the law

Beauvioir: Women are the other, women are the Second Sex — binaries have a hierarchy (one subjective to the other)

Settler colonialism and the influence on indigenous societies