Transwoman Essays

Over the years, fashion designers and lately fashion bloggers have relied heavily on fashion photography to publicize their themes and promote their products and designs. Since fashion photography started around 1860's it was growing up slowly. The field of fashion photography has been lagging behind compared to other artistic fields. It became more popular around 1910's, when fashion magazines such as Vogue and La Moda Practique started depending on photography instead of illustration and drawing

II. Postfeminism Feminism is “a troublesome term” (Beasley, ix). It is a complex notion which deals with social, political, cultural and individual concerns. Consequently it does not possess a universally agreed, clearly defined ideology. Hollows defines feminism as “a form of politics which aims to intervene in, and transform, the unequal power relations between men and women” (2000, 3). However it should be added that since it is a multi-faceted movement, many forms of feminism exist. Feminism

Sula Thematic Essay Around the first half of 20th century, African American experienced a state of fear and poverty, and they were pushed aside to the margin of society by white people. Even though African American was liberated from slavery after the Civil War, the seeming form of liberation didn’t free them from other aspects of discrimination such as economic depression and unfair social statuses. Especially African American women were the victims of both racism and gender discrimination; they

Identity is built on both recognizing and recognition. In recognizing, it is essential that a person knows themselves, and in recognition, it is aimed to be known (Tatar 72). Two typical factors of the term “identity” in the perspective of recognizing and recognition are gender and race. Some controversial issues around gender and race commonly are anti-trans prejudice and anti-racism, which can be seen in Shraya’s collection of poems, Even This Page Is White. In her collection of poems, she offers

Marsha P. Johnson was a black transwoman who was involved with the gay liberation movement. She was born on August 24th 1945 and died on July 6th 1992 at the age of 46. She was known in the gay community for being a drag queen since the term ‘transgender’ was not used at that time. Together with Sylvia Rivera and other drag queens she is considered to be one of the people who caused acceleration to the gay liberation movement. In the 1960’s the police was raiding gay bars on the regular because

Social movements often consist of assimilationists and radicals. Do these groups within a movement enhance the progress made or do they take away from each other? The queer movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century has both of these factions. The wide net cast by the queer label includes a diversity of identities and ideas. All members of the queer community have lived and continue to live under oppression. This has come from government policies, law enforcement, and the privileged majority.

feels to be redefining what being real is. Whenever she sees a juicy, dark-skinned black women with thick afro hair in the mirror, her heart skips a beat as she says to herself “It’s me.” Eva Reign Eva Reigns shares how transitioning to becoming a transwoman is such a fulfilling experience for her. Similar to how Cheng sees herself in the mirror, Reign also looks at her reflection as someone she recognizes. She sees who she really is and appreciates her body. Reign used to struggle to see herself as

As defined by the Oxford Dictionary, ideology is “A system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.” In film, the main ideological topics represented are gender, class, race, and sexuality. Although Dude, Where’s my Car? has been reviewed as “Dude, your movie sucks” by The Austin Chronicle and having a “thin, laughless plot”, gender, race, class, and sexuality ideological ideas can be found scattered throughout it. Dude, Where’s my Car

The man is very happy to have met her again and reminisces on past memories until other men in the area say he’s “gay as hell” for liking a transwoman. The man tries to reject their claims by saying, "Y'all niggas fuck guys up in here anyway!" But, an older man responds, "That ain't gay. That's just jail. You was on the outside fucking booty holes." This particular exchange showcases how queer

Is that representation accurate? No, not really. Actually, transgender characters are the villains in the plot more than 40% of the time. Nip/Tuck featured an entire season about a psychopathic transwoman depicted as a baby-stealing sexual predator who has sex with her son. CSI has this nasty habit of portraying trans people as serial killers. It’s ironic that screenwriters are so desperate to make transgender characters the killers when it’s actually

Stereotypes in media have been around since the earliest cartoons were drawn. The media gives supposedly identifying traits with images of the stingy Jewish man, the single Hispanic woman cleaning homes to raise her three children, and the “butch” lesbian falling for the beautiful blonde who just happens to glance at her every day in the hallway. These portrayals make up general knowledge about minorities for a lot of people, but their accuracy is questionable at best. While production companies

In recent years our societal view has evolved from a binary world of male and female, to a much broader spectrum. Some men are becoming women and some women are becoming men. This is what makes a person Transgender. Although many could argue that gender identity is different from one’s biological sex, some could also argue there is no scientific evidence of such. One factor of concern in this area is, should transgender people be allowed to play sports of the opposite sex to which they were born

Transgender Canadians experience discrimination daily because their position in society is one made vulnerable by existing ideologies and the structure of Canadian society. This is especially true for transgender youth, who are beginning to develop their identities and values. The Canadian narrative normalizes heterosexuality and the gender binary of man/woman, excluding the people that do not fit within it like transgender people. This exclusion and discrimination results in inequalities of life

‘’I just keep on laughing Hiding the tears in my eyes Because boys don’t cry. Boys don’t cry.’’ [Smith, Tolhurst, & Dempsey, 1988] One could describe womanhood as a set of common experiences, although they might have varying lives, different levels of privileges and expectations of identity and gender performativity but oppression by the patriarchy is the only common thing that levels out all of their lives. “Trans-gendering refers to the idea of moving across (transferring) from

Socially constructed identities are utilized to identify who we are and to oppress individuals, especially if they do not conform to those identities or are coming from an intersecting identity. Sometimes on the journey to establish identity and sense of self battles are faced in terms of oppression, acceptance, and silence. All of these variables, in accordance with intersectionality, can make it very difficult for someone to identify themselves or for others to identify them. When an individual