To The WS 450 Class

Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to say thank you for your comments on my blog and I am glad you enjoyed reading my blog as much as I enjoyed reading your blog too.
I think everyone was very creative on their blogs and alot of interesting topics on your blog. I enjoyed everyone opinions and expression on the topics we had to read for class.
Before I leave or sign off, I did try to leave some comments on the blog, but I was having trouble. I am not really a computer genuis with it comes to computers, but I am glad I got to be in a blogsphere with everyone in class.
Everyone have a good summer.

Reflection: The Blog

I enjoyed the blogging experience, it was something new to me. I didn't know or hear anything like the blog. I think the nice thing about this blog is writing your own opinion and expressing your feelings over topics. I never done anything like this before in any of my classes. I tried to spruce up my blog and be creative, but this all I could do.

What is your attitude toward blogs and blogging after completing this course?

I think blogging is a good way of communicating with people through comments and reading their thoughts about a topic. I enjoyed reading some of the students blog in class.

What is the future of gender and blogging?

I would say that gender in the future and blogging would always be an issue. We would think that discrimation towards women would end because of the 21st century and moving into the future, but no. I think women would always be 2nd class, I live on the Navajo reservation and I struggle with my gender in my community. Even though in books it says that the Navajo society is a materilineal clanship system. I feel that being a Navajo woman I am still fighting to have my voice heard. I guess my experience is that Navajo men are intimated by a young, educated, woman. In 2006, the Navajo Nation was electing the next presidential candidate. For the first time in history, a woman ran for the Navajo presidential. Her name was Linda Lovejoy. She had alot of critizism for being a woman from the Navajo people, mostly towards her gender. I voted for Linda Lovejoy, but she lost the election. But I admire her for standing there and taking all the critizism that a "Woman can not be a Leader."

How does Web 2.0 contribute to making feminist futures?

I would say that Web 2.0 contributes a window for feminist. It's great that this blog is global and everyone can read your expression and leave a comment.

Queer Occurrences in the Blogosphere

I just got done reading this week's reading on The Gendercator, or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blogosphere. I noticed on the syballus it mentions making an arrangement to watch the film. I am curious about watching the film when I was doing the reading, I kept wondering on watching the film.

The reading mention about if this would be shown as an education film to the public. I would say yeah, mostly every film or movie is an education film to the public in different ages.

One of the questions in the reading asks, What do these different postings and this situation tells us about (trans) gender, Web 2.0, and activism? I would say that transgender is being disscrimated. I am taking a Human Sexuality class and in the reading I read about people who are transgender and homosexual. The reading mention about hate crimes towards an individual who is transgender and homosexual. It's sad to read some of their stories when they realize that they are different and that they dealt with this issue through high school and college.

I am curious about this film, watching it. It's hard to picture what the issues are in this reading. They are so many different opinions on this film and it's diffcult to view this issue. I am a vision learner and reading this blog there's political, painful, and ironic on the film. For me, it's difficult to make a point on this issue, becaue in my mind I kept thinking it's a film and I want to watch this film.

I have a story to share, I am a Navajo and we have a story that media has related it to transgender or homosexual people.
In the beginning of time when Navajos were emirgating through the Four Worlds, Men and Women seprated for awhile, because of an disagreement. Women went to the west and Men went to the east. Women already knew what to do like cooking, hunting, gathering, building shelter, nuturing the young. For Men that went to the east, they didn't know what to do, they knew how to hunt and gather. Men almost went extinct, but out of a hundred men only one knew how to cook, hunt, gather, build a shelter. Without this one man, the men would have gone extinct.
Men realize that they can not live without Women, so they joined up with the Women and made an agreement to never separate again. The man that had save all the Men, he was looked as a High Individual. He was consisted both man and woman, so he was never looked down among any individual.

Girl Blogging, Dimensions Pt 2

Wow, this week's reading was more interesting than last weeks reading. I wasn't expecting anything interesting from this reading, but it was an eye-opener for me. I will admit that I didn't or never wanted to read anything about Iraq, because of religion beliefs, having family and friends serving in the military and of course, what happen during 9/11.
What made me read these reading assignments was that in one of my classes, my professor was talking about seeing and understanding things from another view, instead of your view. And I know that my parents have always told me to see and understand from a different view of your view before you make judgement. So, doing the reading was an eye-opener for me to see and understand an Iraqi woman that blogs about her daily life during the war.
I enjoyed reading the "Baghdad Burning" by Riverbend, it gave a good description on what was happen to this Iraqi woman and how she lives and thinks about what's happen to her country. I thought the interesting part was how she kept mentioning that the power was out and the phone line was down and that she couldn't write on her blog. I liked her judgement on how she was watching tv on For Females Only by Al-Jazeera, where they interviewed 3 women on the show and they discuss women's rights in Iraq. She tells how she agrees and disagrees with some of the women.
I liked her writing on the blog about Sharia and Family Law, it was an understanding and very interesting fact about marriage between men and women in Iraq. I also thought that Iraqi men were women beaters, I am a sterotype person, but I was wrong about that, women in Iraqi do have a choice to get an divorce from their husband. The one part that I was touch about was when she was explaining the temporary marriage. I thought that was sad how she put it that it's a form of prostitution that leads into illegitimate children and spread of STDs.
Another reading that got my attention was when she was talking about her New Years with her family. Here in America, we celebrate New Year's in a big event with many people like family, friends, and people we don't know. But for her, she explains that it has to be a small gathering, because if it was big, they are mistaken for a "terrorist cell".
Yes, this blogging does demonstrate the power of blogging. She starts her blogging by saying that she started one, but didn't think it was going to capture many people from the internet. In the reading "The Girl Blogger from Iraq", she talks about how she started her blog and how it helped her to vent her fears and anger.
Again, it was an eye-opener for me. Like I said early in my writing, I am sterotype person, so doing this reading made me understand another country, which is Iraq. I watch news every night to see what's going, but that's the part that the media leaves out, the understanding of the people in Iraq. The problem I see with this is that not many Iraqi women would have the same thoughts or sharing their ideas like what she wrote on her blog. I am sure many Iraqi women have their own point of view and opinions on the war that live in Iraq. But she cleared some of my questions I had on women in Iraq about marriage. I guess I would say it's not what I thought it was like.

Girl Blogging, Dimensions Pt 1

I enjoyed this week's reading, it was interesting reading the "Female in a Male-Dominated Blogosphere" and I really got interested in reading the next reading "Blogging While Brown and Female". I really didn't care for the last 3 readings on "Economy Girlfriend", NY Times get punk'd", and the ugly truth about the poor...etc."

The one reading that I found very interesting and thought alot about it, is the " Threatened into Silence." It was interesting knowing that behind a hidden face and knowing you are a woman can still be threaten by expressing your opinion. I felt sorry for her, BB when she talked about how she stop writing on the blog after the threates by both sexes on the "checklist about rapists." She didn't write anymore because she didn't have it in her to write anymore. It took her passion of writing about her opinions away, but in the end I am glad she started writing again. I think it makes her a strong person to come back after sooo many hate emails and comments.

I think intimidation and silence tactics affect the power of blogging is by silencing the individual with threates. The words are stronger than verbal abuse. You know as a person that words stay within and you can't get them out of your head. You read what people say and it stick with you. As for me, I can chose to brush it off and say that person is an idiot or I can start thinking, which will definitley have an effect on me.
I think for blogs to overcome silence is to have strong support from people or followers on the blog and having good friends and family to help and support you. With this BB story, it affected her physically and it took her to write again. Than again, people don't really try to see a situation as a 3-D dimensional, the minute they see the word abortion, rapists, hatered, racism, religion, etc., it's a big issue. The sentence is never read at the end or paragraph to hear the conclusion.
I think blogs can be spaces of resistance by reflecting the speak out of "Freedom of Speech." I don't think there's really a space of resistance, there well always be a attack on bloggers who express their opinions. Right now, I could have a blogger that hates my comments on my blog, who knows.
That's a hate question to answer on how can a blog and media demonstrate the truth about society and some view of women. It's hate to tell what's the truth on a video if it's real or not and now a story. I can't tell if it's real or not. I still get trick on jokes, but I think if it's something like or I am reading something on some who is complaining, I usually put it down or don't bother to listen. I read parts of reading on the last 3 reading and I really didn't care to much to read it. I am not really interested on how much money people make then me or how someone is not getting enough sex from their boyfriend or husband.

Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activisms

For this weeks reading was very interesting, especially the videos. I enjoyed watching the videos on Sarah Haskins and Amy Poehler.
My reflections on this weeks reading were surprising on racialicious with Carmen Van Kerckhove. Some of the paragraphs were based on race and some were off the discussion about race being on blog. She tried to mention more on race and interracial couples, but the discussion kept coming up with how it's more pop and culture. I thought the reading would be more on how or if the blog is a racial blog, but none of the reading mention anything about racism.
The Blog is Beautiful reading mention that there's race blog for many races out there or they have their own blog for discussions. When I was reading this article and designin my blog, I thought to myself, "I wonder if there's any blog for Native American People". I am a native american student and again thought about if there any blog or if any nativer american know about this blogsphere.
I read the article on "Feministing", there was some pros and cons about the reading that I agree with. One sentence that I was reading was the abstract that said Feministing stands on debates around politics for a third wave feminism. Last week readings were that there wasn't enough women on discussions about politics for blogs. The reading mention that there was more women than men who join or sign up for these blogs. I thought that was true and I agree with that.

The blogs function as a cultural activism by having celebrity with their own show like Amy Poehler with Smart Girls at the Party and showing pictures like the Blog is Beautiful, they showed the person as a DJ on a radio show. The videos were like a daytime show or the talk show theme. The video showed or discuss issues on women and girls. They discuss the dislike and like of shows on women with the Sarah Haskins show. The Amy Poehler show interview young girl about their hobbies and interest. I enjoyed watching the Feminist with Ruby on the Poehler show, she was a very smart little girl for her age. I was 30 years old to find out what feminist was.

I liked the videos, I enjoyed them and they made some good points about discussions on the show like with Sarah Haskins with Snapped, Barbie, Lifetime. I watched Amy Poehler with The Dancer-Kenauda and of course, Feminist-Ruby.

Visiting other Classmates' Blogs

Well, I just got done visiting other classmates' blogs on webct. I was very impress by the creativity that you guys did with your blogs. I enjoyed looking at them and it gave me some ideas on how to brush up on my blog to make it more creative.
Honestly, I was looking more at the creativity of the blogs, I didn't get to read any of the blogs. I did glance at some of them, but didn't read it through.
I know these blogs are journals, opinions, discussions and etc., some were on the readings and some were on different discussions that I don't remember reading in the assignments.
Some were interesting by just glancing at them and reading the first couple of sentences on the paragraph.
But, I really didn't read through them, other then that, I enjoyed the creativity in the blogs.

S&F: Blogging Feminism

I just read the S&F Online and find it useful. I am not familiar with using the blog, I did mention that this is my first time using a blog. When signing up for the class and reading the syllabus, I was thinking about what is a blog? The reading gave a understanding and some definition on the blog. It's interesting on how people can leave opinions, conversation, and interests on this blog. I never heard about it until now or taking this course. I like it in some ways because it's like a journal to me and everyone in the course can read it. The good thing about this blog is that in a classroom, some people are caution on talking in class or speaking up in class over a question. They don't want to be looked at in class when talking or ask a question in class, this blog you can speak your mind or express your opinion without the whole class looking at you.
With the reading, it goes into discussion about feminists. How feminists find the blog useful in the blogoshpere. How it communicates through out the internet, when feminists do their discussions. After that the reading goes into the discussion about where are the women in the blog? I do think that there is more women on the blog than men. I think that the research on this blog is wrong, which I read on the other readings that where required. I did the reading on Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs by Herring C. Susan, Koupers Inna, Scheidt Lois Ann, Wright L. Elijah. They did a research on gender using the blog and the research was done in 2003. They did from teenages to adults and the gender were male and female. The conclusions were that male were more using the blog than female. Some of it was a little bias when I was doing the reading. I would think that more women have been using the blog more than men even before this research. Some of the readings were the same as the other readings of last week or the week before. The readings were that men are more political on blogs than women. Asking the same question where are the women? In the Discursive Construction of Weblogs, again more research was done that men are more using the blog on political talks than women.
I don't think it should matter what gender you are when using the blog, not everyone will put down their gender. The blog is free for everyone to use.

Women in Blogosphere

I just got done reading the first reading assignment for WS 450. I read the first site of readings which were "Blogging Busts Out for Women" and "Women in the Blogosphere".

Very interesting reading, it's funny how women are still discrimnated on cyberspace (blogosphere) just by writing their opinion on a topic that they heard or read. Especially one reading in the "Women in the Blogosphere", how a women was discussing issue on politics and every men that responded to her thought that she was a man.

I thought that was an interesting part in the reading, that women are not into politics like men, and I thought that was a discrimnation on women.

The beginning of the reading in "Women in the Blogosphere" it mention what is a blog? I even thought the same thing to myself too, what is a blog? The blog definition does not say anything about being discrimnated against race, gender and age. It's a online journal of opinions, thoughts, and interests. I don't think a women being a feminist should have to have their own blogger discuss on daily important issues.
Women should be in every blog, they have their right to express their opinion in every daily issues. Not every countries can a women express her opinion in communication. She has to express it in hiding or face a death penalty.
If Blogosphere can express every living thing on earth from men to women, children to teenagers, animals to bacteria, and to outer space aliens, then nobody should be discrimnated.

Blogs Out There

For WS 450, I visited 3 blogs on WebCT, they were Feministe, Feminism/Pop Culture, and Fetch Me My Axe. I tried using the blog roll on some of these blogs, but I was going into advertisements like how to creat a blog or know how to write a term paper.
One of blogs that I visited was on Fetch Me My Axe, it had videos from YouTube and there was a video on a 15-year old girl getting beated up by the police. The police asked her to remove her shoe and she kicked off her shoe, which was thrown at the police. The officer was so upset that he grabbed the girl throw her against the wall and to the floor. She mention that her and the officer were arguing earlier.
It's an interesting video on who said who first.
One blog that I looked at was Feministe and it also had a video, but it was on President Obama talking and signing the Exective Order creating White House Council on Women and Girls. I enjoyed that, it was interesting to listen and watch this video about how the President wants to help women in low pay jobs, violence against women, and recoginzing women for their roles.
The topics were interesting, there is so much to read on these blogs about women. I am more interested in women being activits towards what they believe in.

Hello to WS 450

Hello to WS 450 in Cyberfeminisms. This is my first blog over the internet, I never done this before. I am trying to be creative here and hope I'll change my blog to my personality.