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finishing up my semester interning at Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Been working on a separate sub-journal called films for the feminist classroom, corresponding with documentarians, distributors and scholars. This is one of the films I am commissioning a review for. 

Went to an amazing lecture monday night. dr. jill mcdevitt, a sexologist talked to us about purity balls...check this out...

This is the type of message newspapers puts in print to sell them without a care on what bad message they are putting out there about Muslims.

Luciana Calle

Week 14

Why is it that the United States has tricked us all into believing that this is a free country and that we are all free to wear what we want when we really aren't. Everyone in the world is not free to dress, act or be how they would like to be since we are all judged upon it by society. People who chose to cover their heads or even their entire bodies have been used as a target as a way to entertain people and is a good way for television programs to make jokes and use comedy in order to get more views and make money. Producers or the people who write or make up these shows don't care about how those who watch the programs are being brain washed into stereotyping and how they will incorporate what they learn into their from those programs into their daily lives and judge those who choice that way of dressing for religious belief or maybe even just fashion. We have all been almost programmed to look at those who dress against the norms to be labeled as weird and they are discriminated for jobs and even restaurants or any public place they go because they do not dress like "average" Americans.

Luciana Calle

Week 14 

I RESPECT THEM :)

Yeah I agree, the media has definitely brainwashed us and affected our perception of normality. We look strangely at people who cover their heads, because they're different from us, but why? I actually have mad respect for those people. They are so diligent to their religious beliefs and they do what they must to do epitomize their membership. I think it's lovely to see people standing up for what they actually believe in for a change, instead of people just trying to please other people. That is what most people around here do. Such a shame!

Burqa Ban: Muslim full-face cover now crime in France

Luciana Calle

Week 14

This image uses a model to represent muslim women but my question is why couldn't it have been an actual muslim woman instead of a model pretending to be one?

Luciana Calle 

Week4

This is one of my best friends :) She's Muslim and she tells me all about feminism in her culture. We went shopping in NYC this day, and she buys clothes that agree with her religious standards. That must be tough sometimes, but it probably only seems tough, or as oppression, to the Westerners. She does it proudly! I thought this would be a fitting addition to this topic.

This is an image I found showing how Muslim women are being allowed to compete with their veils on.

Luciana Calle 

Week 14

Arab women should be seen as nothing less than any other woman in the West. The term “housewife” derived from the common family in the West, where the man made all the money while the woman stayed home to cook and clean. However, I’m learning now that it was never like that for Arab families. The woman works full time, just like the man, but additionally does clean and cook. I think that people of the West shouldn’t complain about the oppression of household duties, because if they don’t clean and cook, “who will do all the work?” as the author asked her class. It’s different when you look at it from that perspective, why do people always get defensive when we talk about a housewife’s duty? It’s obviously to stay home and do domestic work, but every woman does that honestly, and it’s inevitable. Because, as she said, someone’s gotta do it. Are men too lazy, or are women just more motivated to do domestic work? Who knows, but I found this pretty interesting.

As the author’s parents did, my parents raised me to keep a clean environment. Whether it was cleaning my room or doing the dishes, we valued cleanliness and I didn’t see it at oppression really. I mean, yeah, it sucks to have to do chores, but I don’t see it at a sexist thing that I’m expected to keep the place looking nice. One day, when I get a house and a husband and stuff, I don’t mind cooking and cleaning on top of my career. Those things have to get done, but also, nowadays, men are more generous about that kind of stuff. Work between women and men are generally the same now. However, Arab women stand out so much more than Western women, because most Americans would imagine Arab women to be wearing a veil on their face. We need to consider that that’s only the Muslim side of Arabs; many are Christian. We tend to make such assumptions about the Arab culture and Arab feminism, by having a distorted image of them, but we should really appreciate their pride in hard work and accomplishments!

This is a video on how Muslim are treated and harrased in European airports and how they face discrimination.

Luciana Calle 

Week 14

This is an example of a sick joke that people have made about people who decide to cover their faces or their entire bodies which relates to this weeks topic.\

Luciana Calle

Week 14 

This is a video of Ralphie May making jokes about Muslims and what they wear and its a great example on how media does not care about how their audience's opinion or minds are being influences by these jokes, all they care about is getting views and making money.

Luciana Calle

Week 14

Hijabs are not considered to be attractive in the western culture. That is why many stereotypes are created. 

-Anooj Shah

The picture illustrates the women who wear the hijab can overcome the racism that they face throughout their life. 

-Anooj Shah