Who Is Jordy Rosenberg's 'Confessions Of The Fox'?

After reading chapter 3: "Prejudice and Discriminations" and as well the article "Transgender African-Americans' Open Wound: ‘We're considered a Joke’”, I have a better understanding of the challenges that certain group undergo due to prejudices and discrimination that exist within their own racial group and other groups of our society. Although the LBGT community has made its social conditions a little more better, there is still those within their group that are even more marginalize, this is the case of a African-American transgender. African Americans transgender face twice as much prejudice and discrimination. They battle prejudice and discrimination from their own racial group and from society because of their skin color and their gender

Case Study 14.1: David’s coming Out Process 1. What are the developmental challenges for sexual minority youth, as articulated in David’s story? David’s story points out the complicated lives that LGBTQ youth experience, youth who identify as transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer are more than twice as likely to attempt suicide, and studies show that that higher risk stems from their experiences of discrimination and victimization. David’s journey as a gay teen reveals the challenges some young people face just for being who they are.

In 1929, Nella Larsen made the term ‘passing’ a tangible phenomenon through her seminal novel Passing. Larsen, an African American woman living in Harlem, details the societal pressure and perhaps even necessity for minorities to ‘pass’ as a member of the majority. The genesis of this social pressure is rooted in the history of the lighter-skinned African American population, but it is a force that almost all minorities have encountered in some form. Passing, while tempting, is ultimately detrimental to the culture and general consciousness of minority communities. The net effect is an easier individual existence in the short-run, but a longer term rejection and subjugation of the culture of that minority group. It wasn’t until 2006, long after the racially segregated world of Larsen, that the term was resurrected. Kenji Yoshino, a human rights lawyer and gay advocate, reimagined ‘passing’ to fit a more modern context. In an homage to Larsen’s formative novel, he published Covering, a text that details the modern transfiguration of the passing impulse. Covering is a new iteration of passing and is one with almost equally as hazardous stakes. Yoshino observes the societal pressure for gay men to cover their homosexuality in an attempt to be accepted by their communities. Covering diverges from passing in this key regard; covering is not a total concealing of one’s own identity but rather a muting of it. Therefore, covering is something that occurs even when a person is

Complexity is what makes life exciting and fascinating; it is also, however, what makes life challenging and stressful. When difficult situations occur, people tend to avoid them as much as possible. In the essay “The Naked Citadel,” author Susan Faludi explores the underlying problems with sexuality, which are unknown to the general public, at The Citadel, an all-male military academy in Charleston, South Carolina. Shannon Faulkner, a female who applied to, and was granted admission to the academy, challenged the masculine mindset of the academy. Faulkner managed to gain admission by not marking her gender on the application, which led to a controversial court case. In “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard,” author and Laramie, Wyoming

Activist and professor Dean Spade, in his book Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, condemns current law policies surrounding discrimination and hate crimes against transgender and gender non-conforming populations. Spade proposes a critical trans politics that is superior to the equal rights efforts of gay and lesbian activists up to this point in United States history. Instead of desiring to be included in a law enforcement system that oppresses the people it claims to protect, proponents of Spade’s critical trans politics argue that the entire system, along with all related systems of policing and regulation, need to be either fundamentally

Just watching Ina’s show made Roxane look at her body more lovingly and make sure she was watching what she was putting in her body. One of the main issues that altered Gay’s life was when she was raped by multiple boys in high school. Rape is a very big issue in this book, but also in the world today. Gay talks about how those boys hurt her and how it affected her. “When I was twelve years old, I was gang-raped by a boy I thought I loved and a group of his friends” (Gay 36).

Left out is one of the most pivotal events in LGBTQIA+ history, the Stonewall riots, that just so happens to have been led by trans women, more specifically the iconic trans woman of color, Marsha P. Johnson. This deletion of history in such a ‘pivotal’ film almost completely discredits the intentions of educating the public. Miss Representation becomes Miss Cishet Representation, Featuring a

“Two Boys Kissing” is a complex novel that sheds light on homosexual relationships and the LGBTQ community. David Levithan a member of the LGBTQ community himself successfully captures and represents

Oppression of minorities has had a detrimental aspect in the associated individual’s lives. History has demonstrated that as a western society, we devalue minorities’ rights and values through legislation and societal views. Today, this remains to be an issue for many individuals of many stigmatized groups. Although efforts to reach a more unified community have been taken, many minorities still fight oppression. Through activism, social and political movements, the LGBTQIA community have progressed immensely throughout the past few decades. History has demonstrated a slow, yet vast amount of success in this marginalized group. Activists endured a long journey toward gaining rights for the community which lead to a modern day civil rights movement for the LGBTQIA community. Although there has been a great amount of successes, non-heterosexual individuals still do not have full equal rights as their heterosexual counterparts. There are still adversities that are being faced in this population that hinder these individuals from thriving. The issue is even greater when the individual has an additional identity that is also marginalized. Specifically, individuals who identify as people of color (POC) and LGBTQIA still encounter prejudice from society.

And though this script is about homophobic hate crimes and a gay man, the message is relevant to any minority group. Asians, females, African Americans Hispanics, all have felt these human rights desecrations in the United States. The sad reality is that this are not events that took place in the 50s or 60s; sexism, homophobia, and racism are still a problem in the current world and episodes like this makes sure people do not forget. Shepard’s tragic death is still a painful reminder of how, regardless of the advancement the gay rights movement has garnered over the years, homophobia remains prevalent in the society not only in the United States but also other parts of the world (Tigner, 2002). Incumbent President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that was in favor of gayism. The bill allows all people to choose their sexuality without discrimination. Such practices are prohibited by certain communities especially conservatives.

Within her collection of essays, Roxane Gay uses personal anecdotes that appeal to reader’s pathos, constructing her argument that women are misrepresented and generalized in popular culture by providing an emotional tether upon which readers can latch on. For example, Gay writes of her experiences as a struggling adolescent

Intersectionality, especially when pertaining to womanhood, is a topic that is often times looked over and ignored. This is especially true when analyzing feminist thought, viewpoints, and theory on subject matters such as politics, culture, and identity. Although women partake largely in these issues and are often times just as affected and contributing to them they are frequently left out of the conversation and their point of view trivialized. Repeatedly, instead of referring to women as the free thinking, socially influential beings that they are the media often times chooses to portray women as sexualized objects capable of only extreme emotions, illogical thinking, and weakness. The novels and short stories explored throughout the entirety of this course go into great depth proving the power of intersectionality and the various attributes women provide for society. These interconnected relationships are explored from the viewpoints of the characters within the novels and the authors themselves who are dealing with intersectionality in their everyday lives.

A woman is marginalized not only because she is a woman, but also because aside from being a woman, she may also be a person of color and/or a person with a physical disability. Both traits coexist with her gender and label her as an inferior being in society. As feminism focuses on bringing equal rights to women in a male-dominated hierarchy, this essay will focus on how intersectional feminism aims to not only prioritize gender classification and prejudice but also expose a system of oppression— heteronormativity, the regiment of heterosexuality— in which gender is skewed and devalued to fit society’s ideologies. The relationship between gender and sexuality is complex as they both compliment and restrict each other.

1. Homosexuality is illegal in over seventy-five countries all over the world. I personally grew up thinking I was a mistake for being attracted to girls, and as a direct result of institutionalized homophobia, I suffer through countless micro-aggressions every day. When Robert Graves was my age, he survived similar emotional trials due to being attracted to boys in the brutal British boarding school environment, which is difficult—if not impossible—to recover from. Today, however, he is known instead for his war service and prolific writings, and in his memoir, the soldiery is the main showcase. His portrayal of identity experimentation can be interpreted as an example for how homosexuality was—and is—treated. Graves’ autobiography is actually a testament to the subtler forms of bigotry. Within the Charterhouse community, Graves provides examples of his reactions to homophobia, as well as the later culmination of that internalized bigotry. As a queer person, he struggles with the harmful power dynamic of predatory teachers and older boys, and as an intellectual, he expresses the similar struggle of a desire to be accepted—which are often the same assertions still on the lips of modern queer activists.

Tragedy has the ability to simultaneously bring people together and push them apart. Well, such is essence when Judith Ortiz Cofer, the writer of “American History,” explores the theme of tragedy while she dwells upon the day tragedy struck the world. A numerous amount of people in her community were devastated by the unexpected death of former President John F. Kennedy, as they agreed with his stance against racial discriminations and prejudice. However, Cofer lacks the understanding of discrimination towards her culture, race, and gender. Rather than collectively facing the tragedy of JFK’s death, she is more taken by her own tragedy; being shunned by the mother of her neighborhood crush, Eugene. Recognizing that Cofer is ignorant to