‘Am I Blue?’ – a Significant Piece of Work or a Modern Controversy?

I appreciate the author’s attempt to fully submerse herself back into an adolescent mindset in order to understand the complex issues of masculinity, sexuality and gender

Diversity is said to make us unique and beautiful, yet too often it creates the ugliest conflicts. History will tell us more often than not that fundamental components of human life (race, religion, politics, culture, etc) are the root of many conflicts. Yet, people seem to make our discrepancies seem praiseworthy, and that we must accept them wholeheartedly. Although acceptance is crucial in forming a more empathetic society, it is important to recognize that one’s willingness to accept others is shaped by their past experiences and upbringing.

In our society today, we 're taught tolerance, but situations arise where minorities are still facing indirect racial discrimination. It 's neither a permanent nor a perfect solution, acts of tolerance require the power to act intolerant but it’s only a small part of racism. As a catalyst for change, tolerance is important in a salad bowl like the United States, however, it doesn 't change an

“Go Carolina” by David Sedaris hits on a very important and meaningful problem in today’s world: Society doesn’t determine what, or who, someone should be. Using subtle word choice, tone, characterization, and structure, Sedaris paints a vivid image in the reader's mind about the world this story takes place in, as well as how judging and harsh society could be. David and other homosexuals are “rejected” and “shunned” by them in a way; in one instance, David explains, “You could turn up your nose at the president or Coke or even God, but there are words for boys who didn’t like sports” (19). David summarizes this later in the book more explicitly: “anything worth doing turned out to be a girl thing” (24). These simple yet imperative sentences

In “Two Boys Kissing, ” David Levithan shares the stories of seven teenagers who are all gay, and the experiences they have while coming to terms with it. Even though three of the main characters have different stories and are at different stages their everyday experiences are influenced by gender as a process, the social construction of gender, and oppression. These three concepts shape and influence the stories shared in this book, but the main theme stands true and that is to be proud of who you are as a person and an individual no matter who that may be.

Gender norms surround every person in every culture, even though they have variety in each culture, they are still real and still impact individuals who stand out from the norms. Leslie Feinberg's book “Stone Butch Blues” shows how hard it is to challenge gender in the 1960’s when homosexuality and the transgender movement was something that was just starting up. Leslie shows the reader that just by existing in a transphobic environment ze is challenging what it means to be a man or a woman, and more importantly, what’s in between. Leslie shows that gender isn’t just black and white, it’s a spectrum of colours.

Nelson describes her observations through various shades of blue, as different reflections of her past and present. The different fragments establish Nelson’s perspective towards her life, as autobiographical approach to a colour. These fragments highlight the different experiences she comes across when comparing her search for the colour blue with other colours she encounters. The addition of comparing the colour blue to such colours of orange and yellow amplifies what Nelson considers the choices she makes in her

"It's my purple sweater,” I responded, as my 4th-grade classmates surrounded me, questioning my outfit. Then they said it, the two words that would forever exasperate my adolescence, "That's gay!" And like that, the trend began. From that day on, my typical mannerisms, my lisp, my endless giggling, my fidgeting, were all characterized as gay. The constant bombardment of slurs like "Gayson" bewildered me, resulting in an inner abashment. I was afraid; I was ashamed of who I was.

John F Kennedy once said “Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others”(JFK). In JFK’s inaugural address JFK talks about Although they bear some differences in views, JFK and CS are strikingly similar, for being over 100 years apart.

In conclusion the way we treat, talk, and overall communicate with those different than us in a multitude of ways cannot be determined as a positive or accepting way. We as a society must work together in order to promote acceptance. Today, all we hear is talk about Donald Trump’s desire to build a wall, but what need is there for a physical wall when we already have ones encasing our minds and hearts? We as humans beings often treat those who are different with closed minds and closed hearts, but that can change if we all join together to remove one brick at a

Sexual-minority youth still face challenges their straight peers do not. Teenagers who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual they make up about 8 percent of the high-school population or roughly 1.3 million students suffer from substantially higher levels of harassment and physical and sexual abuse than those who identify as straight." As we have read in the text, David’s parents’ are successful working citizens from Bolivia. David also mentions a sister that is thought of as “Perfect” in his eyes. David appears to be on a journey to discover a sense of “self,” an identity that is separate from his family.

Jamie Nabozny is beat at school and picked on by a group of kids that just do not know when to stop. The kids make beat him up in the bathroom, leaving him their on the ground Bullied. After awhile of dealing with the bullying he decides to leave home and runaway to the city where he will be accepted more. Soon after he returns home and becomes home schooled for awhile before having to go back to school where the same bullying and harassment continued. Jamie decides to take his case to court so that homosexuals that were being bullied in schools would be represented by Jamie in this case so that they would finally take care of the bullying taking place in schools everywhere around the United States. One of the bullies came to the stand and admitted everything to the judge and jury Bullied. Finally he is supported by others and people are now on his side after going through high school in the roughest of ways and he prevailed in the end despite being labeled and

The Bluest Eye concentrates on the key contemporary American issues: racial and sexual politics. More distinctly, the novel centres on the impact that socially constructed views of race have on gender relations within the black community. As Butler-Evans highlights, “race rather than gender had become the overriding sign for the oppression of black people” and Morrison’s novel responds to this political issue by focusing on this in correlation with the Eurocentric society setting of the novel. The racial oppression suffered by the black community shape ideas of black masculinity based on male feelings of inferiority and consequent sexual oppression of black females. Morrison systematically explores the relationship between the racial oppression of black males and sexual oppression of black females. The main focus of this essay will be an exploration of how racial oppression experienced by black males, specifically Cholly and Junior, relate to the sexual oppression they enforce on black females.

and green. Blue as discussed earlier was represented as the color of the God and other religious concepts, so the major incorporation of the color blue in the reliquary chasse indicated the spiritual significance it carried. Envisioning blue on the chasse unified people to Jesus Christ. Many of the reliquary chasse of the 12th century narrated a story; this individual one narrates the crucifixion of Christ. There are several key figures engraved throughout the exterior of the chasse, however since the crucial scene of the execution are shown on the front face of the chasse, that indicates that this chasse was primarily to be seen from the front rather than the sides. If viewed from the front, the top has three figures designed on it. In the center is the God the Father and on his either sides are two unknown saints. All three figures are represented in mandorlas however in different colors. The God of Father is displayed in the blue mandorla while the saints are shown in green mandorla. Here we can interpret a sense of hierarchy because the God of Father is shown in blue, which represents a divine color, however the saints are represented in green that is a mix of blue and yellow. So, blue still exists and represents divinity, yet the mixture of blue and yellow to produce a different shade of blue signifies that the God of Father is above and more important than the saints.

(2009)” Studies showed that these children and young adults are as popular as children reared by heterosexual parents; at school they have grades within average, the same level of stress as other kids. In general, they have normal relationships with peers and adults. Most of them accept their parent’s sexual orientation; some even get inspired by their parent’s courage to be different.