What kind of embodied representations do Roxane Gay, Alma Lopez, and/or Yellow Rage offer through their creative cultural productions? What dominant ideologies, representations, and/or knowledge do their works implicitly and explicitly critique and contest?

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1. What kind of embodied representations do Roxane Gay, Alma Lopez, and/or Yellow Rage offer through their creative cultural productions? What dominant ideologies, representations, and/or knowledge do their works implicitly and explicitly critique and contest?

Choose either question 2 or 3 below for the second half of your original post.

2. What popular cultural saying or idiom do you find offensive and why? For this idiom, propose a new way of using language that is revolutionary or empowering.

3. What kinds of oppressions have you internalized or witnessed other people internalize? How do you or others challenge these types of negative internalizations?

*Recall that original discussion posts should be a minimum of 400 words and include two separate peer responses that together total at least 100 words. There is no maximum limit on posts.

Reading:
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/19/533515895/be-bigger-fight-harder-roxane-gay-on-a-lifetime-of-hunger

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