Paired Blogging 11/21
Here’s what me and Ana discussed about The Year of the Flood through Siobhan Sommerville’s work so far: *super long post ahead, we more or less wrote mini essays to each other…* Vita: The piece we read by Siobhan Somerville dealt with the interdependent relationship between scientific/ pseudoscientific discourses of race and (homo)sexuality in the 19th century. […]
Reading Response 10/24
For me, part of the appeal of reading dystopian fiction such as The Year of the Flood is grasping the minute details of the new and futuristic, but not really far off, world. The systems, structures, hierarchies, and even products found in these dystopian worlds all contain references to present-day “real life” world and ingrained […]
Reading Response 10/10
Where to even begin? My first brush with Sheryl Sandberg was a discussion with a friend about the TED talk she gave. My critique of the talk still remains the same in light of the two takes of her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Mainly, her view and advice is […]
Reading Response 9/26
This week’s (and last week’s) readings enhanced my understanding of Michel Foucault’s theories, especially his work in The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. The first chapter of Somerville’s Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture utilized the framework Foucault set up in The History of Sexuality. Somerville focuses on […]
Technology Diary 9/19
*Late post because I changed my topic halfway through…* The technology I would like to focus on this week is fashion or clothing in general. I admit that clothes are not the first thing that comes to my mind when I use the word, “technology.” It seems to have been with us, humans, since our […]
Reading Response 9/12
With Fausto-Sterling’s conversation about dualisms in mind, one of the major reoccurring themes I noticed in The Hunger Games was the dualism (or more accurately, the desconstruction of) between nature/ nonhuman and unnatural/ human. As Fausto-Sterling defines, dualisms are “pairs of opposing concepts, objects, or belief systems” that are central to a Western way of […]
Technology Diary 1
My initial idea for this week’s blogpost was to choose a household appliance after reading Freeman’s observation that “housework can actually expand with new appliances,” and that time studies show that women with “‘labor-saving’ appliances” more or less spent the same amount of time doing housework as women without this technology (2002, p. 132). However, […]
Introductions: Vita Xie
Hey everyone! Here’s a super short introduction… I am Vita Xie and I am a senior at Brooklyn College. My major is sociology and my minor is anthropology. In the past few years of my undergraduate career, an overarching topic of most of the courses I took has been gender along with sex and sexuality. […]
