Work comes out of life. Where else would your work come out of, if not your experience? Being a queer woman is the air that I breathe, and it’s inescapable, and it’s going to be part of the work.
Here Eisenman explains that she does put her experiences and identity into her work. She explains that your identity is inescapable, so, therefore, it is going to be involved one way or another.
she’s Kafka with a paintbrush, mindful of the nightmares of history and partial to somber, social-realist colors (muddy browns and greens) that hark back to Depression-era art. It is perhaps relevant that her German-Jewish grandparents fled their homeland in 1937, refugees of the Holocaust.
She uses her identity, as well as the identity of her ancestors, in her art. This allows her to put more emotion in her art and allows for her art to be more meaningful.
Eisenman wants the different elements in her paintings to hang together and tell a serious, sad-funny story.
Her use of these different elements make her painting more rich and meaningful. By doing this she causes people to look more into the painting and actually follow along with the story that she is telling. This allows for anyone who sees her paintings to get out of the painting what she wants them to get out of it.
“I understand that this is a significant part of black life around the globe,” she continues, “but if all we’re known for is our pain and our struggle, what does that say? I don’t want young people to feel that is the only way they can talk about themselves, through that lens.
I like that she doesn't just wan't to show weakness among black life, she wants to show them in a strong form so that when people look at her drawings, the feel a sense of strength instead of the sense of weakness that other painters may show in their paintings.
Because she’s Nigerian, that shade, says Toyin, “is much deeper than you get in the American South. When I was growing up, our household was very patriarchal. People were happy when I was born, but when my brother was born, the whole village was involved. My father would tell my brother, ‘You have to do this or that because you’re carrying my name.’ My mom would take me aside and say, ‘I don’t care what your father says, you’re carrying my name. You got the Ojih.’ ” In 2015, Toyin officially added the “Ojih” to “Odutola.”
Even though her father was the 'leader' of her household growing up, she, in a way, looked up to her mother. When her mother told her that she was carrying her name she continued to carry that name throughout her life.
Unlike Kehinde Wiley or Titus Kaphar, who insert an African American subject into an Old Master–style painting to give identity to the black figure, Toyin imagines a contemporary world in which blackness is the norm. She’s more like the artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who has said, “I’m trying to make my shit as black as possible and still have you deal with my humanity.”
I find it Interesting that she is expressing a world where "blackness is the norm." This makes her drawings unique from many other artists', therefore there is another perspective that you can view these paintings from. I feel that she may be speaking for the black community in a way, and is trying to say that these drawings represent what life could have been like.
I don’t believe that people can ever really know what it is like to be someone else
Here she is saying that you can't truly feel what others feel because everyone is different. This proved the point that she does not want to speak for anyone else, she just wanted to show Emmett Till's mother that she has empathy for her.
I feel like she doesn’t have the privilege to speak for black people as a whole or for Emmett Till’s family,
I don't feel like she is trying to speak for Black People or for Emmett Till's family. She was just paining a picture based off of an event that occurred. I feel that the purpose of the painting was to let people know what was happening, more than to speak for a whole group of people.
Despite this prohibition, in the Dominican Republic people who lack identity documentation and are effectively stateless are denied a range of human rights and prevented from participating fully in society.
They are still people, so they still deserve the natural rights.
People who were wrongly registered as foreigners even though they were born in the Dominican Republic well before the 2004 Migration Law and the establishment of the Register of Foreigners in 2007 and who have, therefore, been retroactively and arbitrarily deprived of their Dominican nationality
If they were wrongly registered as foreigners, they should just fix the problem and register them as nationals since they were born in the Dominican republic.
“To all of a sudden be told no, you’re not Dominican, it’s very frustrating,” said Elmo Bida Joseph, a 21-year-old student who said he was denied his ID and a copy of his birth certificate because he was born to Haitian migrants.
All the children of them immigrants must be really upset. They grew up in the Dominican and don't have anything else. Now, being told they are not citizens, they are losing everything. Its not even their fault, but this is being put on them because of their descent.
We really don’t know what’s going to happen to those people
They should help them a little and at least find a place for them to go. At this point, they are practically putting these people in a situation that will ruin their lives entirely.
there are nearly 210,000 Dominican-born people of Haitian descent and roughly another 34,000 born to parents of another nationality.
That means that all those people and maybe more will be deported from the Dominican Republic. This is horrible, if the people are working and doing what they are supposed to, tell them how to become citizens and let them stay.
The reaction of Black men to feminism has been notoriously negative. They are, of course, even more threatened than Black women by the possibility that Black feminists might organize around our own needs. They realize that they might not only lose valuable and hardworking allies in their struggles but that they might also be forced to change their habitually sexist ways of interacting with and oppressing Black women. Accusations that Black feminism divides the Black struggle are powerful deterrents to the growth of an autonomous Black women's movement.
I wonder if this is only the black men or if it is also men in general. I feel like men in general would also be a large problem because they, as a whole, don't want to lose their dominance.
When liberal icon Bernie Sanders told supporters, “It’s not good enough for somebody to say, ‘Hey, I’m a Latina, vote for me,’ ” Quentin James, a leader of Hillary Clinton’s outreach efforts to people of color, retorted that Sanders’s “comments regarding identity politics suggest he may be a white supremacist, too”.
I agree with what Bernie Sanders said. It isn't enought to just say, "I am Latina, vote for me." The race or ethnicity of the person does not show you what the person will do once elected to their position. Anyone, no matter the race, has to explain themselves and be able to show that they are the best potential candidate.
The new exclusivity is partly epistemological, claiming that out-group members cannot share in the knowledge possessed by in-group members (“You can’t understand X because you are white”; “You can’t understand Y because you’re not a woman”; “You can’t speak about Z because you’re not queer”). The idea of “cultural appropriation” insists, among other things, “These are our group’s symbols, traditions, patrimony, and out-group members have no right to them.”
This is not right. People have there own rights, if someone wants to do something, or say something, another group does not have the right to tell them they can't do or say that. (unless the thing that they are doing or saying is against the law) If they want to, they can tell them that they prefer them not do or say something, but they can tell them that they can't do or say something.
Tellingly, a 2012 study showed that more than half of white Americans believe that “whites have replaced blacks as the ‘primary victims of discrimination’.”
I agree with this. Whenever a white person insults a colored person, they are called racist, but when a colored person insults a white person its OK. I also don't like when colored people blame this on slavery and act like its some deserved privilege that they have earned due to the fact that colored people were once enslaved.
Because the Implicit Association Test (IAT) sometimes reveals troubling aspects of human nature, it poses the possibility of causing discomfort.
You will be able to learn specific biases that you have but you may not even know about.
The IAT measures the strength of associations between concepts (e.g., black people, gay people) and evaluations (e.g., good, bad) or stereotypes (e.g., athletic, clumsy). The main idea is that making a response is easier when closely related items share the same response key.
This test will help to show how your mind relates different concepts with specific evaluations and stereotypes.
someone might report smoking a pack of cigarettes per day because they are embarrassed to admit that they smoke two.
If they are embarrassed by something, they shouldn't try to hide it or lie about it. They should accept it and try to find a way to fix it.