Gender, Sex, and Power Quizzes 1-7

According to Audre Lorde, why should we avoid hierarchizing oppressions?

All oppressions are interconnected.

The writers of the Combahee River Collective Statement said that which categories of social inequality create oppressed and privileged classes?

Class Gender Race Sexuality

A normate does which of the following?

Defines who has the authority to reproduce without question or challenge.

Chimamanda Adichie warns us of the dangers of single stories. What do single stories do?

Erase people, places, experiences, and possibilities

Settler colonialism happened only in the 17th and 18th centuries in North America and is now past.

False

Sylvia Rivera says that people of color did not participate in the Stonewall Riots because they were too afraid of being arrested.

False

This term describes the way we feel about our own gender, or how individuals perceive themselves.

Gender identity

This term describes a society based on the dominance of men and the normalization of heterosexuality.

Heteropatriarchy

Which author is critical of assigning blame to particular men and instead suggests finding new ways of representing bodies and identities?

Peggy Phelan

In her video, Dr. Smooth shared that she has incorporated a focus on geography into her intersectional analysis. What is the category of difference that she is bringing into her work?

Rural/urban

Which author argues that quiet refusal and 'not doing shit' are also feminist practices?

Saidiya Hartman

Audra Simpson thinks that Loretta Saunders' horrific murder in Canada caused a national outrage because:

She looked white.

How are the impacts of climate change made worse by U.S. colonialism?

The land of indigenous people is exploited for fossil fuel extraction. Indigenous people in thawing areas in the Arctic are being pressured to open up extraction.

How did the Combahee River Collective get its name?

The members named themselves after a raid led by Harriet Tubman to free slaves.

According to Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality is a way to ____________ social life to see how systematic ___________________ affects individuals and communities.

frame oppression

Sara Ahmed says that being a feminist is not about espousing a specific set of beliefs, but about asking questions about how to improve how we live in our unjust world.

True

The idea that disabled people cannot be sexual beings is oppressive.

True

According to Lydia X. Z. Brown, disability justice says we must reject the myth of independence in favor of _______________ ?

interdependence

Sexting laws maintain which system of oppression?

age sexuality race gender

Collins and Bilge say that intersectionality helps us see interconnections by using what kind of a lens?

both/and

According to Sara Ahmed, feminism is...

transformative collective needs to be everywhere world making

Requesting accommodation for a disability requires what to happen first?

Accept a diagnosis.

Which author urges us to build new academic knowledge from the experiences of marginalized women?

Adrienne Rich

How many ways are there to experience transgender identity?

As many ways as there are trans people.

Which author argues that we should mobilize interdependency between women to develop new feminist tools to fight oppression?

Audre Lorde

Beauty standards in the US are racialized. What examples illustrate this?

Beauty companies market skin lighteners. Women of color are encouraged to straighten or relax curly hair.

Settler colonial criticisms of Theresa Spence's hunger strike focused on her body fat. Why?

Because she was supposed to die, but didn't.

Which of the following describe the connections between indigenous women's disappearance and land dispossession?

Land dispossession is so normalized that the violence against indigenous women is also not scrutinized. Loss of land undermines tribal sovereignty and that loss of sovereignty makes it hard for tribes to fight back against gender and sexual violence, too. Dispossession is violence and that violence allows for the violence against women.

Valuing the experience and knowledge of marginalized people is essential to doing feminism in the academy. How do feminists do this?

Promoting difference Creative writing Artistic practice Educating ourselves about others' experiences

Which characteristics make up Audre Lorde's mythical norm?

White, man, heterosexual, Christian, wealthy

Gloria Anzaldúa writes that a borderland is a

emotional space tied to language, experience, and identity.

Hasinoff says we should treat consensual sexting not as a speech act but as what kind of act?

sex act

Sara Ahmed says that "all feminists are students." (quoted in Mehra). This means that...

we have to study the world in order to transform it