Instruction
Reflection Paper Gender
Below are the 3 options for the Gender Reflection Paper. For outside material, you can use the book or one of the numerous articles on gender listed under "course resources."
1) http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34901704
Read above article and relate it to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (language influences the way we see the world) and give your reaction to gender neutral pronouns.
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-N4-PMMdI0
Watch the above video and discuss it in terms of breaking the gender binary, and the speakers experience in the race.
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Gh2n9kPuA
Discuss Alok's political activism regarding narrating our own bodies. Comment on the resistance to this that Alok has experienced.
notice, English is my second language, so the Reflection should be simple.