A Single Story

A Reminder of Love I have enjoyed making this film. It went as planned. Throughout the process ideas came to me and I was able to use them. I used family members for the filming. I used my camera. The editing software worked well. Some hick-ups but it was fixable. I had to upload the audio to YouTube then convert it to a mp3 in order to put it in the video. My brother taught me how to edit. I am glad I was able to do this project. We created something that will last. Credit to Filmora, my family, and YouTube. The video is about friendship, play, and love. I used parts from the books I read, such as the truck scene and shoe throwing scene (Ari and Dante). It is about the obstacles we face. It's about remaining yourself. In a way it represents comfort-ability. Slowly the two actors become more comfortable with each other and themselves. In a way it reflects my journey along my single story. Cheers.

Near the end the author talks about the that study of gay and lesbian has been replaced with queer study. This holds more currency within the scientific world. In a way those who study such things have been given a responsibility. They are shaping the way people think about this. The author goes on to talk about a woman who wishes to shed some of this perceived power. She claims that most fall into the high or low platforms. Theory bashing or creating new theories. She wishes to find a middle ground. She talks about how often women of colors stories have only been cosmetic within the white feminist movement. She talks about the way many wish to be autonomous and self conscious. This drive leads them to miss some of the story. On reflection on this book I learned some useful information. It was academic yet relate-able. Not as much poetry as I'd hoped. To reflect on my single story: The books I've read have helped me understand. There exists prejudice, yet there are grou...

The purpose of this work is to bridge the gap between queer theory and the lesbian feminist ideology. Apparently the people who champion queer theory find the lesbian feminists to be outdated and believe that this way of thinking will end. The author believes that their is common ground between the two. By showing that the two can work together she hopes to bring light to the struggles of both and hopefully end this discrimination between two groups that could be working together.

Chapter 17 begins with a woman who drops out of med school to pursue a career in construction. She enjoys her work and makes more. When she begins to hang out with other women the union questions her as to her ID. Is she interested in women they ask her. No she replies in order to save her job even though its untrue. She moves to Detroit and finds success. She moves to NYC to be a magazine editor. She joins a group to support Asian markets. She becomes chief editor of a magazine and during a speech she makes her interest in women known. She feels liberty. I find some of what I read to be intense. I found this book to be informative. I learned about IDs and the way they are expressed. I learned that people are unique. How the media changes facts. Also why people are interested in queer stories.

According to this book queer masculinity tends to develop in a counter way to typical masculinity. They end up in a space that is disruptive.  These people tend to struggle for their id and end up protesting for it. As I read about chapter 13 I find out that someone can read heterosexual texts in a homosexual light. Using imagination to conceive of the characters differently.  This teaches the mind of the reader about such things and allows him an outlet.  In chapter 15 an author talks about how same sex attraction is often grouped into such things as class and race. Also the author notes how those women who are masculine may end up the "Other". In The Origin of Others Toni Morrison talks about the other. The dangers that the other faces are real. Many people grouped as the other face developmental problems. The author urges people to view their bodies as endlessly becoming. My interpretation is that we should see ourselves as ever changing and not to be over...

The preface starts talking about single stories. How a story gets told so many times that we start to believe it. Asian Pacific Americans are grouped together, despite differences in culture and conflicts between ethnic groups. Oppression is mentioned a few times. How this minority group faces trouble in the sense that people think of them in negative ways. However some think of them as exotic. There is a mix. The activists mentioned in the book spend time in high school and college. They believe in many groups and the struggle for freedom is what unites them. The first story touches on the difficulties of being queer and Asian. She worries about fitting into her native country, how she would have a hard time coming out. In America she is worried about being Asian. The story touches on the conflict between Africans and Asians. Africans feel like Asians make more money, and blame them for taking it away from the African community. She talks about trying to stop the use of...

My first impression of this is that the author seems to use vague meaning words to dance around a topic. There is not a lot of substance. Another oddity is the author refers to tomboys as "phallic girls." This may have some merit, I am unsure. Perhaps they on some level embody a male characteristic. As I read more I begin to adjust to the language and find it less obtuse. The author refers to traditional masculinity as homophobic, and I can relate to this. The new wave of masculinity seems to be different. The author talks about educators and how they will look for the complexities of gender in students. I find a part of myself to be resisting terminology such as "queering the classroom". Perhaps because I believe we should be free to choose what we become. That term seems coerced. A term appears "un-mapping" which involves relearning your horizons. A feature describes identities as fluid. To elaborate: The book is a description of queer...

At the end of the book it is talked about a hooker. He remember the time spent with his mother and how she would find joy in his drawings. He relates this to the same joy people find in him. I have read Memoir of a Geisha and this reminded me of that. This book has taught me some Japanese. It is similar to English in some ways. Language it seems is universal in a sense. Someone just needs to know what to look for. I learned about Japanese culture and the way people treat those who are different then themselves. Japan is like most places in the way they accept and treat those of the LGBTQ community. This was a good read.

I looked at photos of Ari and Dante and viewed a fan trailer( https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=3sPX9LCRLfw ). Features asian characters. Showed kinship. Ari is the left. more seri. dant is h-go-l. Ari is darker.

In japan there was not a word for female-female love. In the 1960's a word emerged. Woman-woman love was considered emotional, while male-male was carnal. Samurai would take young male lovers. There is not much record of woman-woman erotic love in japanese history. More recently, girl on girl love is looked down upon, seen as something that will be outgrown. During the 15 year war (ww two) japans government got control of media and began to encourage women to produce sons.

This starts with an explanation of Japan and its sexual identity. Prior to the Meiji Restoration Japan was largely accepting of those who identified as LGBTQ. It was a no care attitude. Once Japan began to incorporate Judeo Christian values those who strayed from the western norm were stigmatized. I remember reading about Africa and how it was not until Western interference that they began to discriminate against LGBT. There was a king who was not the norm and he was accepted. Once Western influence spread discrimination did too.