Essays on Identity

Gender expectation refers to a normative conception of appropriate attitudes and activities for a particular racialized and gendered group (Plante and Maurer, 2018). My first experience that highlights gender expectations relates to my childhood, where I engaged in activities considered appropriate for men such as…

Any bodily movements that require energy expenditure produced by skeletal muscles, is known as Physical Activity (PA).[1]Physical activity is generally classified as Low, Moderate and High levels of Physical activity and is measured in METs as follows: Low levels of Physical activity- Less than 3…

Imagine receiving a thousand dollars in your bank account every month, for the rest of your life, regardless of your status or income, no questions asked, no work or payback required. – Impractical you say? Andrew Yang, a 2020’s presidential candidate is running for president…

When we hear the word trans, it’s mostly associated with sexuality and gender, however, a new concept has come up.. The act of associating with a race other than the one you were born into. Identifying with a race that diverges from your ‘birth ethnicity’…

Throughout past and current history we have been able to analyze the way individuals have evolved into these incredible human beings. This could not have been possible without the proper use and analysis of different theories. They key to understanding humans and our fascinating abilities…

Georgia is a country located in the Caucasus region, at crossroad of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. As far country is situated between two dissimilar continents, culture of the country is rich with different characteristic details. County covers about 69 700 square kilometres with about…

Black sexualities are rarely ever depicted on-screen in a positive light as they are shamed and punished for expressing themselves in a similar way that white sexualities have been normalized and accepted for. This racial bias is clearly emphasized in the form of narrative storytelling…

Black people have always been active in asserting their being or humanity in the face of oppression. Whether it be art or rebellion, black people always seek to express and assert their conceptions of blackness within society. This expression has also taken form in mindsets…

In Thinking Sex, Gayle Rubin argues that sex is a “vector of oppression” (Rubin 160), namely that sex and desire are not a private entity as it has been transformed and exploited as a public agent in order to repress certain groups of people; sexual…

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a volcanic Polynesian island located in the Pacific Ocean. It’s about 3,510 kilometers west of Continental Chile, making it a Chilean territory. The story of Easter Island begins with the Rapa Nui people, the original Polynesian inhabitants of Easter…