Group Update
Our group (Myrna, Vita, Jonah, and I) is organizing “The Year of the Flood”‘s timeline in chronological order and cartography. We’ve decided to use ThinkPort, which is a timeline creating tool. We’ve also decided to chart Ren and Toby’s timelines separately at first and see if it’s logical for them to be organized side by […]
Reading Response (The Year of the Flood)
Maybe I was being overzealous, but while reading Margaret Atwood’s “The Year of the Flood” I couldn’t help but draw conclusions between Atwood’s Toby and Suzanne Collins’ Katniss. Both women find themselves in a situation that isolates them and in which they must draw strength and endurance to survive in the dystopian world they inhabit. […]
Technology Diary (10/10)
Intersectionality is (now thanks to the third-wavers) a staple of feminism, but this doesn’t just include women of color, ethnic minorities, and lower classes. This also includes women who don’t fit into the media’s body standards of “beauty”. Unfortunately, for the women who are plus-sized, it’s hard to find clothes that are of quality and […]
Reading Response (10/3)
Although at times I felt Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” was a bit far-reaching, her main point that we are all cyborgs was an unconventional twist on how we interact with machinery and technology. I have to agree that since we are so dependent on technology that we’ve become half-organic, half-machine in the way that […]
Technology Diary (9/26)
Alas, there is something called “revenge porn” and it exists. As if the pornography industry couldn’t get any misogynistic… In case you are unfamiliar with the term, revenge porn is when angry (and often male) exes post their exes’ nudes or videos that were sent to them in confidence during the relationship online for all […]
Reading Response (9/19)
Teresa de Lauretis’ “The Technology of Gender” was far from an easy read. I can’t actually remember the last time I had such trouble understanding what I was reading. However, there were a few points she makes that I understood. I think de Lauretis’ discussion of gender and how it is completely cultural and should […]
Technology Diary (9/12)
I also wanted to discuss some of the issues that riddle the video gamer subculture like Pranitha. Being a woman and being accepted in the geek culture is like a Catch 22. You’re one of two tropes; you’re either good-looking and seeking male attention or you’re unattractive and completely shamed for not looking like a comic […]
Reading Response (9/5)
I disagree with positivism as defined in liberal feminism. I don’t think there is a way to form experience and analyze it free from social conditions. Every experience is different based on what biases and what kind of framing takes place. Knowledge is not objective because we cannot decontextualize our experience, our thought, and our […]
Feminism and Technology (for word cloud)
Feminism: intersectionality empowerment equality acceptance and support Technology: heavily relied on facilitates multitasking, communication makes the world small complacence
Introduction
Hi all- my name is Oriana Asano, but please call me Ana! I’m a junior at Baruch College and majoring in Advertising/Marketing with a tentative minor in Art History. I’m taking this class because I am a hardcore feminist, plain and simple. I haven’t had the opportunity to take a gender studies/feminist class and am […]
