It is hard not to hear about the laws being introduced at the state level and their biggest target being trans youth. One of the biggest resources for trans youth being targeted is gender affirming care such as hormone replacement therapy. As a trans young adult who in the past year has gained access to … Read more
During the COVID pandemic there were numerous prisons and jails releasing people from incarceration and one of the biggest states to do so was California. Releasing thousands of people there was instant lash back towards the actions of the state with worry that crime rates would rise. Before the COVID pandemic started California had lowered … Read more
In the past few years there has been an increase of transgender violence as well as an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ bills being introduced and enacted in state and national legislature. Since this has been a recent increase research takes time to provide there is a lack of data to discuss how these issues might be … Read more
Branching off of my last created post, I will be talking about the last selection framework that aims to navigate societal evolution. The third and final selection framework defined by Turner and Abrutyn is Marxian Selection and is used as a way to support their theory of Spencerian Selection. Marxian selection identifies the opposition to … Read more
This paper post will continue the conversation in my last paper post and will be continued in the next post as well. In this post I will discuss Spencerian selection and the next post will cover Marxian selection. Once defined and discussed I will then lay out the wholes that I have identified and where … Read more
Many of the connections between the book UnFree by Rhacel Parrenas and the book “feminist Theory Reader” by Carole McCann, Seung-Kyung Kin, and Emek Ergun are connected to Orientalism. A framework that shows us how we perceive, connect with, and treat countries outside of our own that we may deem as “exotic” or even just … Read more
This past spring, I decided to do a project on anti-LGBTQ+ bills that were popping up at a hefty and alarming rate. In 2022, we had a record-breaking year, and same as the year before, but nothing like we saw this year. I wanted to revisit this topic to get an overview of where we … Read more
Piecing together a new discussion that I have never indulged in has proven to be a little complicated and the topic of the discussion is a little daunting as I have stated in the last post that I made. This is because the topic is something that professional researchers in the field are arguing about … Read more
Starting a new research project means the ever so dreaded literature review and depending on how much you already know about your topic depends on how much information you start out with as you continue on your search for sources. The amount of information you know can make your reading of articles simplier or harder. … Read more
As we discuss feminist theories in class, the theories and playwrights of how femininity and masculinity interact with each other never fails to intrigue me. One researcher decided to see if the game, Grand Theft Auto, could tell us something about ‘Crisis in Masculinity’ and what breaking down ‘toxic masculinity’ looks like in real time. … Read more