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“I honour you for your unique expression, your creative hands, your boundless compassion, and your unwavering bravery to share yourself with the world. In each moment that we choose love and connection over fear and separation, we are healing our ancestors, the generations to come, and the earth on which we live. Though our stories may be spoken in unfamiliar languages, we may wear strange adornments and call god by a different name, we are all woven together. We are threads in the same tapestry, sovereign yet supported, and made stronger and brighter by each other. This is a co-creation, a grand masterpiece. So keep faith beloved friends, choose love, and together let's continue this Light Work.” - Autumn Skye |
Dear To Whom This Concern,
This semester has been full of accomplishments and crossing boundaries that I would not even dare to cross. Times have been tough but I was still able to keep on track and make things work out to the best of my ability even though they are days when my skies are darker than others. I took a stand and face my demons that drag me down however, everyday is a struggle which is why I figure maybe I can use this to my advantage. The knowledge I have acquire helped me fulfill my obligations in furthering my learning in rape, a taboo subject, in a world that makes people very uncomfortable are now being faced worldwide. Women are speaking out on this social justice. One of my professor Shonna Trinch specifically is an expert in the field of rape in Latino community. Researching and reading her journal articles and attending her lectures on sex and culture where rape is involved, open my mind. Which then led to my thinking on how women gets viewed on social media and continued onto the gaming world. Society wants women to look chaste but at the same time not chaste, in this retrospect women can not win on either side. Female ends up getting blame which then they experienced slut shamed and cyber bullying which is sexual violence. Each individual is unique with their morals and values. Intersectionality is evident especially since culture mean everything. People put the blame on womens' clothing when a woman say she has been raped. Society has an ideal victim in their mind every time somebody gets raped. A woman crying in the corner and staying isolated from society however, Professor Trinch research work points out that this is not true. Women who got raped goes about their life like everything is normal which then makes society think did she really get rape? |
“You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.” - Anthon St. Maarten |
Within the world of gaming everyone plays women including, hardcore games however, certain hardcore gaming have misogyny against females. Women are fragile, nurtured, weak, belong in the kitchen, cannot do men's job, slut, thot, bitch and so much more. Females have a more negative connotation to our sexuality of all race. Whether you are from the Latino countries, Caribbean countries, United States, Europe etc. women all over are viewed the same but it is up to us to put our foot down and say NO. My colleague Kira focused on a specific person name Emma Sulkowicz whom is a survivor of sexual assault and a activist. Emma Sulkowicz got rape in her own dorm room, so she walked the campus for the rest of her semester there holding her mattress to stand up against rape. Her silence for doing this is amazing in knowing that she is not society ideal victim of rape, she stand up for what is right which I find to be truly remarkable. These problems are a universal phenomenon that is women problems, coming from a third world country where rape, crime, drugs and many others all occur. I've grown up and hear things most people at a young age are not meant to hear. See things children are not suppose to see but by knowing this things. We can change...we can finally be seen in a different light where culture ideologies are what they are by people morals, values and attitudes towards universal phenomenon. So we can change...but are you ready for that change?
Sincerely Yours, Lavana Brown. |