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  1. Jun 2023
    1. because of the history of friendship that these North American womenestablished with Vietnamese women.

      it is super important that women had places to connect and had community to stand with one another

    1. page 23- The way that it gender roles defined significance as a person is something so degrading. It is hard to believe that women could not be seen doing the things that men were "supposed" to do

    1. :bunnies that rattle at sacrificeand wet-eyed ducklingswho give themselves upwith solemn, wheezing squeaks.

      this just goes to show the sacrifices that mothers make for their children

    1. This is a power quote. It is often expected that being a parent is the only personality trait to have once you have kids, but its important to have your own identity other than just being a parent.

  2. May 2023
    1. They walk inside me. This bloodis a map of the road between us

      this is how I would describe how we can feel our ancestors being apart of us and living our existence through them.

    1. Honey when you come down here you supposed to stay with me. Where else?” Meanin home

      this perception of 'home' is very surreal and raw.

    1. I require something more thanpersonal experience to gain aphilosphy or point of view fromany specific event. It is the qualityof our response to the event andour capacity to enter into the livesof others that help us to make theirlives and experiences our own

      I find this statement very powerful. Although personal experience can help someone understand an experience, it does not allow us to know what it felt like for someone else. This is why its important to lead with empathy and try to see things from other point of views.

    1. o you reallythinkyou decidehow I may appearor not appear?Do you reallythink you own me?My bodyis my own......

      still until this day, women are treated like objects and people feel like they are a possession to some. It is sad to have to feel this way.

    1. The new ideology of economic equalitynegativelyaffecteddivorced women in terms of alimony, as well as the divi ion ofassetsand child support payments. 1

      It is unfair that when women seemed to be independent and receive their own rights, there was always something to contradict that and go against them.

    1. the masks of motherhood are cracking through.

      It is upsetting the pressure that mothers face in this society. It is assumed that being a mother comes naturally and is something easy to be, but that is no where near true

    1. between lesbian andtrans as imagined by the trans exclusionary speaker on Twitter is notgender so much as sexuality, it suggests that their referenced problem of“the compulsory” has yet to be adequately understoo

      it is interesting to me that this is an issue, I would have never known this issue in this community was one that existed and it common

    1. So obstinate in not letting his ward have her moneywhen the babywasyet aliveand there [w]ashope of saving its life, - now,so readyco spend her money after the baby was forever lost to its broken-heartedmother.

      It is sad and vile that this indigenous women could not receive her compensation in general, and in the time of need when her child was sick. She had her finances stolen and ultimately had her Childs life stolen, when it could have been saved

    1. sociohistorical factors havea “devastating effect on the dynamics of the Native American family” and howthe effects of colonization “have been devastating both physically and psycho-logically.”

      it is sad that colonization is praised, but the repercussions that those who were already inhabited must go through are not thought about enough.

    1. packed at midnight the nightbefore

      it is interesting that packing things late is a universal way that people deem others in a negative manner and in this case a bad daughter

    1. The young matron who goes forth to purchase foodstuffs forher family must take the following facts into consideration:

      It is dehumanizing to see that these women are criticized for making use of things that are most attainable to them and what would be most useful for large families and for long periods of time.

  3. Apr 2023
    1. Negro alley, blind to che relay of looks and thepangs of desire chat unsectle their capcionsand hint at che possibilicyof a life bigger chan povercy,ac the cumult and upheavalrhac can't bearrescedby che camera.

      It is disheartening that people look at the lives of people and take pictures to display some sort of bad image, yet they fail to realize the character and life that lives within the community.

    1. fish bladderslinensheathshoneylint acacialeavesand my personal favorite: crocodiledunggummy substances co stop upthe mouth of the wombsilkwormguts werealsothoughtusefu

      Women have always had to face the repercussions and pain endured from a n act that men deemed necessary, as it has been said that a women job to birth babies. It is unjust and unfair that this pressures inflicts unethical treatment towards women.

    1. My commitment to women’s history came out ofmy life, not out of my head

      Women are shown through experience the way the male patriarchy has the most power in the society!!

    1. “standards-based” may refer to something similar to criterion-based testing, where the idea is to avoid grading students on a curve.

      This has always been something that confused me about professors. It does not seem rationale to me that exams or grades are based on a curve, when exams can just be made fair and students are given clear instruction through lecture on how to perform welll.

  4. Jan 2023
    1. too much attention to the particulars of implementation may be distracting us from the bigger picture

      This is what majority of classes at UCSD can feel like. Considering it is a prestigious school, coursework is built to be rigorous, but that is the issue. It is built to weave people out, but this only causes a great deal of stress and unhappiness. It no longer comes down to learning, just trying to receive a good grade.