Southern Comfort Reaction

I watched the Southern Comfort youtube videos and learned that transsexuals or other people who have had their sex changed live similar lives to most other people that I know. I didn't realize how much trauma and stress they face in their lives, especially from their families and our society. It was reassuring to see that the several people in the videos created their own small society where they accepted everyone's differences. In my opinion, the videos stressed a greater awareness and respect for transsexuals and other people who do not fit the stereotypical normal woman or man in our society.

Society of No Genders Meeting?

I was just wondering whether our group was planning to meet sometime before tomorrow's class to discuss what our hypothetical society will be like as well as confirming that we have a powerpoint for our class presentation and a one page declaration summarizing the society. I guess that I just want to come to class prepared. Thanks.

i agree with all of the ideas one thing we can do is compose a paper or website that gives information about what we are doing and how specifically siena students can live a more go green lifestyle on campus we can send a link to the entire student body including the siena staff members so they can understand we should also include our process on how we are going to do this so people can participate we also need to set specific dates and locations unfortuantely we know several students will over look the email so we all must tell our friends about the idea so they can participate and help us get a better grade and make change for siena

The importance of this is to be something that siena can maintain. Just donations I dont think will really go well, just a short term thing. We need long term ideas as well to impress Dr. Johonson such as changing all the lightbulbs around campus, or starting an event that is held every year for recycling. I think there is something like that "help siena go green" Maybe we can contribute something to that

what about donating old shoes and using the rubber to make new basketball courts, benches, etc.? I think that it would get a lot of use from the Siena community and even if the material is not used at Siena, it will still provide the "green" message to many people.
maybe something similar can be done with old clothes, i am not sure what could be made out of recycled clothing, but I think that Siena students certainly have lots of clothes which they either rarely or never wear
maybe we could do an awareness campaign or something about pesticide use or maybe how pollution affects water sources and natural diversity
maybe promoting awareness about albany's natural environment and how it is possibly being destroyed
i like keri's ideas though, i guess now it is just trying to figure out a plan and how to execute it

social change project

ok so we are going green

-energy efficient light bulbs
- recycle batteries
-recycling buckets in individual rooms (cans/bottles, newspaper/paper)
- energy efficient faucets and shower heads
- i did something like this in high school where we collected paper that only had print on one side and we cut the paper and glued them to make pads to write on...

add any other ideas

Gender can be:
1-Traits
2-Role
3- Variable
4- Accomplishment
-understood – to be understood by others (ie baby clothes)
-participate – (take boy to baseball game)
-Navigate – move through a gendered world
-be – show we are successful at meeting expectations
We do gender because the world is gendered.
5- Social institution
-organize bodies (marked as belonging to one group or another) -> Experiences (go along a path with a certain set of experiences, appropriate for male group or female group) -> groups designed for different tasks (learn traits from experiences that we take through life) -> Groups of tasks (things for people with different skills. Men: cops, firefighters/Women: nurses, teachers) -> Institutions (institution of military, of education). These institutions are gendered and gendering.
Structured differentiation -> Stratification