...movement in this present day has also managed to sweep LGBTQ community, especially transgender women under the rug. Trans women have always been marginalized if not totally excluded from the feminist movement. These exclusions are extremely glaring in the Trump administration, as trans women who have an extensive collective and individual history of battling for their rights. Women and the LGBTQ community do not have equal rights in America. Both communities are involved in changing this reality, but they are not working together towards this common goal. In a piece done by Mollie Lam, Why LGBT Rights Matter for Gender Equity, she discusses that "There were troubling moments in the history of women’s movements when some feminist leaders hesitated to support LGBT rights or rejected women who were transgender. But we have come a long way, and those days must remain in the past....
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...will do everything possible to promote their country’s position in the world’s politics. This person would have to be Bernie Sanders because he focuses on the right issues such as endlessly fighting for a woman's right to earn the same pay as a man, remaining pro-choice throughout his entire political career and by being a longtime supporter of LGBTQ Rights. A pay gap exists between male and female, and while seemingly small, it occurs and builds up overtime. When looking at statistical information from an article about Bernie Sanders related to income in a wide field,...
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...The purpose of the law is to serve as protection for individuals, however there are innumerable examples that make the purpose of the law questionable. The law has patterns of creating division between normalcy and reproducing “deviant” groups. For the most part, normalcy includes privileging the norm, which is judged from a very conservative perspective. Meanwhile, those who pertain to different racial backgrounds and have multiple intersectional identities such as people of color who identify under LGBTQ are attributed out-group labels. They are also pushed further away from having any participation in legal discourse and are excluded from the rest of society including groups who fight to embrace the acceptance of different identities within the law. These individuals are only pushed further away from having any participation in legal discourse. As a result the rule of law continues to privileges heteronormativity, and reproduce subordination of marginalized...
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...year in which most attribute to the beginning of the gay rights movement in America. Before 1969 there was a real disconnect between this population and the political process, but when the NYPD raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village and started arresting people, the community had finally had enough. The following three days riots ensued, finally they had enough and no longer would they remain silent. The following year the first gay pride parades are held in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, all of these were done to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Stone Wall incident. In 1977 in San Francisco California a movement would be lead by a charismatic man, Harvey Milk, who would be elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Harvey Milk continuously fought to de-marginalize the LBGTQ community fighting and dying for his cause. Milk would be assassinated in 1979 becoming the communities first great martyr. Over the following 24 years this fight would meet with great victories and terrible disappointments. Today the battle for these rights still continues, with passionate people on both sides. Attitudes in most parts of this country are evolving, more people are in favor of gay rights and same-sex marriage, but this is not enough. This issue, which has been labeled so many things, needs to be called what it really is. This issue is a matter of civil liberties, this is a fight for the civil rights of a persecuted minority in the United States of America...
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...In the world of transcendentalism, equality is held to a high standard, whether it’s the equality between genders or between races. An important transcendentalist writer named Henry David Thoreau once went to jail because he refused to pay a poll tax that contributed to the addition of slavery in the United States of America. As stated in his essay titled Civil Disobedience, he states “If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. “While he wrote about men, this concept applies to women as well as all genders. In the status quo, the world doesn’t treat women and the LGBTQ...
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...We are very well educated on past events that have occurred involving discrimination against one another and are taught that we are all equal despite the colour of our skin, our race or religion. Overlooking the lessons of our past, today in 2016 history repeats itself as Syrian refugees receive a very unwarm welcome from many Canadian citizens. As part of the youth in Canadian society the subject of whether Syrian refugees are worthy enough to be living in Canada has been brought up to us several times, each time with a different point of view. Many of our decisions we have made revolving around this topic, have been based on what is found on social media and most importantly what we are told by our elders and what we comprehend from their actions. But it is time we start looking at the facts and the full story without any interference to discover that all Syrian refugees are equally entitled to living in Canada as any other Canadian citizen is. An abundance of young Canadians believe Syrian refugees are bringing danger into Canada while jeopardizing the lives of all Canadians due to the information their ears get filled with. But how can anyone say that without physically encountering these war survivors and becoming educated on where they are coming from? Many believe the arrival of Syrian refugees in Canada is just as easy and fast as the arrival of a package ordered online. If only it were that simple! After the submission of millions of applications, the applicants’ history...
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...What Is LGBT? LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and along with heterosexual they describe people's sexual orientation or gender identity. These terms are explained in more detail here. Lesbian A lesbian woman is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to women. Many lesbians prefer to be called lesbian rather than gay. Gay A gay man is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to men. The word gay can be used to refer generally to lesbian, gay and bisexual people but many women prefer to be called lesbian. Most gay people don't like to be referred to as homosexual because of the negative historical associations with the word and because the word gay better reflects their identity. Bisexual A bisexual person is someone who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to people of both sexes. Transgender or Trans Is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (internal feeling of being male, female or transgender) and/or gender expression, differs from that usually associated with their birth sex. Not everyone whose appearance or behaviour is gender-atypical will identify as a transgender person. Many transgender people live part-time or full-time in another gender. Transgender people can identify as transsexual, transvestite or another gender identity. Gender Identity One's gender identity refers to whether one feels male, female or transgender (regardless of one's biological...
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...The Hunger Games: Action-film feminism is catching fire Lisa Schwarzbaum Burning up Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is both strong and vulnerable – a new kind of action heroine who has powered The Hunger Games: Catching fire to a $158m US debut. (Lionsgate) Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is a new type of female action film icon, and moviegoers should be very excited about that, writes Lisa Schwarzbaum. As Catching Fire ignites on movie screens around the world, this is what we know about the 21st Century heroine called Katniss Everdeen: she is strong but also soft. She is brave but she has doubts. She is a phenomenal fictional creation, yet is real enough that moviegoers can draw inspiration from her values, her resourcefulness, and her very human inner conflicts. And she is played by Jennifer Lawrence, who appears not only to be handling her current duties as Hollywood’s finest model of well-adjusted millennial female stardom but doing so with charm. Everdeen and Lawrence: golden girls both. Personified in Lawrence’s lithe movements and cool, focused gaze, Katniss is a brave, resourceful and independent-minded fighter; but she is also a troubled and vulnerably guilt-ridden human being. Nina Jacobson, the producer of the Hunger Games film franchise, puts it this way: “She is a singular heroine in that the burden of survival weighs on her. She has a ton of survivor’s guilt. And she keeps surviving.” Girl on fire It is strange that behaving like a well-adjusted...
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