This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Mens Rights Activists fight for equality in India


"We need to free both men and women from rigid patriarchal structures and traditional gender roles. Sexism and moral policing against men has increased in recent times but has mostly gone unnoticed. When both feminists and men's rights activists want gender equality, where is the problem," asked founder of NGO Save India Family Foundation Anil Kumar. He answered his own question by saying the compromised stand feminist had didn't let them bother if men experienced sexism or got stifled inside rigid patriarchal expectations." - Payal Gwalani

"HOW INDIAN MEN ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

Till today, no study has been done by the government on domestic and social life of men, suicides among married men and men's issues in general

Married men are victims of gender biased laws and suffer false dowry, domestic violence, rape cases. Men lack social acceptance and society looks at them as perpetrators, even before they are proven guilty

Gender neutral laws like shared parenting, inclusion of men in laws regarding sexual harassment at workplaces, giving adequate paternity leaves, etc are required to be made"

Conditions outside of the U.S do not seem to be taking similarly paced strides at gender equality. This has been posted on the Times of India site today and serves to highlight the alternative, but parallel side to feminism and the equality of the female gender. 

However, I believe that no matter what you call it, gender equality is a necessity and begins with the eliminate of such constricting terms of refinement. Equality across genders, identities and sexual preferences.

-Kevin Houlahan

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