As times change so do the waves of feminism. When looking into the first wave and the women that were included it was not for me or the people in my community. The first wave of feminism was for the voting rights of rich white women, the second wave introduced rights about pay & body, the third wave of feminism began to include all women, no matter the color of their skin religion or sexuality. looking at the video “Gender and Race in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation” it more so pointed out how excluded women of color were from the start of feminism. The speech “aint I a woman” added more to the fact that women of color were completely ignored for the first 2 waves of feminism. I identify as a woman of color and the third wave of intersectional feminism fights for women like me and my community.

Original Post: "Chicana" - Christina Martinez

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Head: A line from this poem that really got me thinking was "Why buy the cow when you can milk the life out it for free" I have felt this in my family. People immigrate to the United states in order to give their children the opportunity to a better life. They work their ass off yet to their kids never seem tiered. And then they return to their native soil with nothing but, the sense that they did what was right. They leave their youth, their hard work and leave with having been paid under minimum wage for most of their lives. They leave with keeping the many times their human or workers rights had been violated with the fear that they had no rights. but they go with the settling thought that they gave their children a better chance at a future. I heard, seen and felt this story over and over.

Heart: This really hit home for me. Being Mexican you see and hear all the stereotypes. That Latina women are crazy, hard to handle, they are sexualized and there is a whole longer list. But the main thing that hit home was her fathers deportation, Or the deportation of hard working people in general. I see this in my community, I feel this in my community. People who give this county there all, their youth, their lives, just to be kicked out.

Feet: As women, as a Mexican women, I can speak out about my identity and how the world sees me. Like this poem says, "My Chicana" We have to take back the stereotypes and show what we have are. I also think that undocumented immigrants need to know their rights. They need to know when they are being exploited and they need to Know that they have rights. In the future that is for sure one of the things I would like to campaign and focus on.

Original Article : AlterNet

Head: The media tends to cover a lot of things that g on whether its about the government or its people. reading this article by Alternet, it made me think about the gaps in the history we are told. I think that they way schools teach about martin Luther king jr leaves a lot of things out. Another aspect of this article was the connection I made with the assassination of Fred Hampton. The FBI has gone after other public activist yet the media doesn't publicize it.

Heart: It is crazy to me how something so big and important is not widely known. When I was younger I was miseducated about Martin Luther King jr and what he did it. So many things were left out or oversimplified. Reading a little on the other articles it made MLK jr. seem so much more real and not just, in a way a fictional character. It sounds odd but that's the way they build him up. It's important to learn why we are celebrating MLK jr. rather than just knowing he was an African american man who had a dream.

Feet: My reasoning behind taking this class and being interested is ethnic studies and social issues is to create a change in my community and add to the movement. I think that a good point that the article made was that we don't know the full story and we let ourselves or the media make up the rest. Reading this made me think about all the other things in the news that are not only embellished but totally bias. I think I already question pretty much any information i get of social media but after this article i'm going to pay more attention to the gaps in stories.

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