Throughout this course, I learned a lot. One thing I learned in this class was about gender myths and gender performance. I would say I enjoyed this topic especially because this was the day, we all spoke about what we thought gender was. When everyone said what they thought it was and there wasn’t anyone saying, “you’re wrong”. It was a free space to say what you thought it was. From then on, I knew this class was a no judge free zone or a critique class. From the documentary we watched named “Pay it No Mind: The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson”, it taught me a lot about Marsha. I learned that she started wearing dresses at 5 years old and it’s like I hear that people will tell me that children know young who they are. To hear it and see how it changed Marsha for the better was great to see. She is someone I admire because she knew who she was, and no one could tell her otherwise. She paved the way for others because from seeing this documentary, I knew she touched a lot of people’s hearts who weren’t comfortable showing their true self.
I enjoyed doing my blog posts in the class. It took me a while to know exactly what I wanted to write about, but I knew how I wanted to relate it back to what we’ve discussed in class. My experience with writing it was a challenging one for me. I decided to do my topic on “Self-Love” because women are learning daily how to become more in tune with themselves. We, as women, are learning that we know what we want and what we deserve. I got my inspiration writing about it from social media because I would see women buy themselves flowers and think that just that alone, was them loving and treating themselves because they deserve it. I enjoyed us writing our own topic because there are honestly so many topics you can speak about when it comes to different subjects. I felt that writing about that and giving my personal experience in it gave my classmates a chance to learn about me. With me writing one, I also enjoyed giving back feedback on the ones I read as well. For example, I remember reading one about housework and how women shouldn’t be the only ones doing it, men should help too. I like that topic knowing that I could relate to it in my household. I like how the person said that household chores should be equal.
I believe that I brought information as well as my full participation in the research presentation. For the research presentation, my group members and I came up with certain questions so that those can be our topics for the presentation. I came up with gender neutral because in today’s world, men and women wear high heels. You can go down the street and see both women and men wearing it. I knew why women wore it, but I wanted to learn in more depth of why the men wear it. The research I did to learn why wasn’t difficult for me and I learned a lot about it. I really enjoyed finding topics that we each wanted to talk about because I believe we all used as much information as we could to show how much we really learned on our topics. For example, when Rukshona did her part of presentation on the Islam religion, me as well as everyone else learned a lot from that part alone. I also like that our group didn’t have any chaos or disagreements while doing the project, we all came together to give a good presentation. I enjoyed reading and listening to other presentations because each presentation was different from the other. I’m glad that every topic was different and still related to the class because we all learned at least one thing more than we did or didn’t know of that topic.
