ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Worf, Genderqueer, Gender Inequality
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Lecture 10: they can learn to say my name - pennesi. In our multicultural society, having a name pronounced properly, spelled correctly contributes to a sense of belonging: the article talks about microaggressions on names. Ex- graduation ceremonies are a rite of passage. The person that calls the name of the person, pronounced the name wrong. It is a whole of a society to create that responsibility when accepting immigrants: agency: the capacity to act. Think of it as the capacity/ power to act. The author talks about the discourse of agency: ways of talking about the capacity to act. a. Many people she interview resisted name alteration: gender inequality is a systematic problem. Think about how we are told to behaviour in a certain gender. Gender i s a non-binary and fluid concept. Our gender identity might be different from our sex: sexuality- attractions, thoughts towards other people.
