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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Fierce Femmes
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, </span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>there is an excerpt on page 20-21 about who you can be in the city. I think it heavily relates to our class because we are so open about being free to e…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Media and Sexualities
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>As time passes and the world gets much more open and free about the LGBTQ+ community, media increases in representation and information about the experience. Cross discusses how the trans community, especially, has broken barriers with writing and shown themselves as human beings, rather than just props and items to…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Lisowski/Nelson Brief Citation
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In Lisowski, we get to delve into the very deep and personal experience of a trans person, from the vulgar remarks in public to the transition in testosterone. Unfortunately many women have fallen victim to Lisowski’s feeling “I was used to being an object of fixation/rage for men” (para. 3) because we are const…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Hierarchies
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>There are a million different hierarchies and systems in which privilege is involved. For example, racism, classism, the patriarchy and LGBT community. Although a lot of people don’t want to admit it, there are levels in every group of people out there, and people do get treated differently based on their i…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Gender and Sex
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Our discussion on gender and sexuality was very open and important.There were all kinds of questions from and about all kinds of people and I feel that it’s very necessary to educate ourselves rather than make assumptions all the time. It was also good that there wasn’t serious judgment from one another, but an atm…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Feminism
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>As a child, I didn’t know the definition of feminism. I didn’t understand the severity of inequality or how badly it was affecting people around me. I grew up being encouraged to wear dresses and be a girly girl because that’s how I’d be accepted. Nevertheless, when I got older and was able to see how much more di…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Gadsby
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Have you ever felt really bad about something you were going through, but used up jokes to hide the crisis you were dealing with? I know I’ve been there, and so has Hannah Gadsby by using stand up comedy as a muse to talk about controversial topics and issues in her life. Nevertheless, we can become so caught up i…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Biases
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Although we might want to say that we see everything as equal, there is a field of unconscious bias which changes the way we perceive things and interact with others. The Implicit Association Test was a wake up call for subjects who realized their own hidden biases existed, and a former City College proffessor,…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Labor Log 1
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Reading</span>
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I had to miss my first week of college, unfortunately, and reading was taken up by worries of how I’d survive my first year. While being abroad, I spent around 3 hours this week reading up on tips from college students about what they wish they’d known before going int…[Read more]
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Fariha Tahsin started the topic Rhetorical Analysis
<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The art of persuasion, also known as rhetoric, has been used for generations to convince an audience why their point of view is worth listening and understanding. From Martin Luther King’s Letters from a Birmingham Jail to a child begging their mom why they deserve new toys, we have all experienced what effect p…[Read more]
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