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Morgan Young

Dr. Richard

ENG-3298-02

July 29, 2020

Tumblr Reflection: Women’s Equality

This summer, I have encountered various topics such as the power of storytelling, Islamic feminism, traditions, translational, third-world feminism, and global feminism in my Women’s Writing and English global studies worldwide course. My biggest take away from this class is women’s equality because women not only have to fight for women’s rights but for sexual equality, race equality, religious equality, and even equal wages. In my commonplace book on Tumblr, it shows various different topics, but my overall theme is women’s equality. This is important because no matter your race, sexual identity, religious beliefs, and even economic status, every human should be accepted and treated equally.

My first posts is about Empowering women that come in all shapes and sizes shown by the superhero women picture. This picture shows that women are all superhero’s no matter race, disability, or size. Even though someone is different, it doesn’t matter in all of the reading we read race and gender came into effect, and the charters struggled because of it. The next post is that real men respect women; this comes down to gender equality. This came across quite frequently in our readings. Some examples that come to mind are in the global equality text by Burns when he talks about women in another country and how it is ritual to beat women before marriage. This almost kills the women, and I wanted to connect it to how men should not follow rituals when they include things like hurting and killing women in most cases. The next couple of posts is what I mainly focused on while creating my Tumblr blog.

The United States Women’s National team, after doing research, is one of the main driving forces behind women’s equality in sports. Even though we did not directly talk about equality in sports, this issue is on a world scale and connects to the various topics we talked about. The first picture is a Muslim woman Halima Aden on the Sports Illustrated page wearing a hijab. This was a big milestone for the sports industry as many people that make it on the cover are athletes wearing little to no clothes. This woman wearing clothes from head to toe represents the Muslim women’s community. This shows respect, purity, and empowers other women. By allowing this woman to be on the cover inspires Muslim women around the world that have been oppressed for decades that they are able to do anything they want. Halima Aden made history she even said in an article, “I keep thinking [back] to six-year-old me who, in this same country, was in a refugee camp.” She then was able to grow up “to live the American dream [and] to come back to Kenya and shoot for Sports Illustrated in the most beautiful parts of Kenya–I don’t think that’s a story that anybody could make up.” (Swim Daily) This post was one of the more meaningful ones because it not just connected to empowering women, but since it was the first time ever a Muslim woman was featured on Sports Illustrated wearing a Hijab and completely covered up, it is a stepping stone for women’s equality.

The next post on my Tumblr blog was Snoop Dog, who is a famous male rapper telling everyone that the United States Women’s National Soccer Team deserves to be paid better. He even said that they are underpaid by $410,000 per athlete. The United States Women have won four World Cup championships when the United States Men’s National Soccer Team struggles to make it to the World Cup, and only succeed half of the times they were eligible. After further research, I concluded that women bring more money in then the men in ticket sales, merchandise, and advertisements. “But the women’s team has actually generated more revenue than the men since the 2015 United States Women’s National Soccer Team World Cup win sparked a new level of American interest in the women’s game” (Roberts). This class sparked my interest since we were talking about global women’s equality. Soccer is played around the world, and the World Cups are held everywhere, so why are women making less money. This is now a debate that I am going to stand by since this class helped me discover these issues. Another one of my posts is a game between two soccer teams. When two women were going after the ball, the Muslim women’s hijab fell off. All of the other girls made a circle around her so she could fix it on the field without a substitution and the whole crowd seeing her. This was an amazing sight because you see women helping women, and even though they are on opposite teams, they are helping a Woman adhere to religion without breaking any rules. This also sends a message to other Muslim women that even though you are wearing a hijab, it doesn’t matter you can do whatever you want, and people around you will always be there to help if something were to happen. This is a great connection to empowering women and making them reach their full potential.

The next series of posts include being proud of being a Women, all people are different and that is okay, and to stop waiting to take action if you want something changed. These posts summed up my overall point and what I have learned in this course. The first one was women standing and holding protest signs saying we are women and another picture saying equality for all. No matter your gender identity or religion, we are all people should be treated equally. This connects with the book we read Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta the main character Ijeoma was coming of age while she was lesbian and growing up in Nigeria where it was a war-torn area. Ijeoma struggled to be confident in being a Women and lesbian because it went against her religion. I learned that people not just have to fight because they are women, bust also to their and race and gender identity. It’s horrible to think that people have to fight for every aspect of themselves to be normal and accepted. This has really opened my eyes because I am a white, straight, female. So, my only battle is being female, while other people around the world are fighting because they are a different race, gender identity, or even in a different socio-economic class. The next post was a picture of a black woman and a symbol of the LGBTQ community this also reminded me of Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta because I when I think of the main character Ijeoma I think of women similar to this picture. Ljeoma and her lover Amina along with everyone in the LQBTQ community including my aunt who is lesbian deserves to be treated equal and have all of the same rights and be accepted by everyone. The other video on my Tumblr blog is “What it means to be Muslim” it is about how all people should be treated equally. This video shows that even celebrates, and famous athletes are not treated equally. This connects with women's equality around the world that is displayed on my Tumblr Blog. This video gives insight into what Muslims deal with day in and out, which is not fair because, just like how Ijeoma was more accepted in the end, these people should also be accepted and treated equally and not differently.

The last post I want to talk about is the quote by President Barack Obama. He says “the change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”. This quote is powerful because it is true; I see a lot of people support causes but do not actually take action. If something needs to change then, we need to change it now and not wait on another time or person. This relates to the current black lives matter protests. Since some people are not being treated equally, action needs to be taken. I think this is a great closing remarks post; it sums up that we need equality for all people, and we need to actually take action and not just let it be. Altogether this class has taught me a lot about the power of storytelling, Islamic feminism, traditions, translational, third-world feminism, and global feminism. It has not just made me open my eyes and see a new perspective but understand and relate to more people than I did previosly. It makes you think you are not the only one. I have already started more research on certain topics that I felt I needed to gain a better understanding and gain more knowledge, then I previously did to make the United States of America better and even places around the world. I have found a lot of great of resources that are free and simple that just require you to sign a petition or read. I am encouraged to gain additional knowledge and hope to one day make an impact through my access to information and knowledge of the subject

Works Cited

Burn, Shawn Meghan. Introduction to Global Women's Studies. s3.amazonaws.com/blackboard.learn.xythos.prod/5a6a00cf15ab4/248708?response-cache-control=private%2C%20max-age%3D21600&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%27Introduction%2520to%2520Global%2520Women%2527s%2520Studies%25281%2529%25281%2529.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200722T150000Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=21600&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIL7WQYDOOHAZJGWQ%2F20200722%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=476f9f29d1778fd15e6c42b29e6581b01cd6174c552c13c2b33b3fb9744adbca.

Okparanta, Chinelo. Under the Udala Trees. London, Granta, 2017.

Roberts, Daniel. "What critics get wrong about the U.S. women's soccer pay debate." Yahoo, 9 July 2019, finance.yahoo.com/news/what-critics-get-wrong-about-the-us-womens-soccer-pay-debate-153139503.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANfvTBjcCF_nu2x0Df2y_Zrqya0kxzwHl0_CEFfHTyfVMglOiuI3Df5pfqZo2aNZ5BK27fpL-Xv8mir7-0Q13ApJpFFzFOQAffoJD8GS086hLOhk6RJgTX3m5qmPV42D_1mhfZRpVkhrY5lvBQVzGfe2njvQMPAYoCattuf4wPGE.

Staff, Swim Daily. "Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit." Sports Illustrated, swimsuit.si.com/swim-daily/2019/04/29/halima-aden-si-swimsuit-2019-model-kenya.

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