For this weeks photo share I decided to select a “funny” poster from a gay rights demonstration in Sydney, Australia in 2011. The photo says “If I like it then I should be allowed to put a ring on it.” The first reason I selected this photo is because Beyonce is great, but the second (and main) reason is because it highlights how simple gay rights…[Read more]

This week I decided to select a photo from an article about children separated from their parents due to our country’s immigration policy. In the article, the judge talks about Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy and how appalled he is that thousands of children are separated from their families “with no due process and no judicial oversight.” The…[Read more]

For this week’s photo share I decided to spice it up and select a political cartoon. It is an extremely simplistic image with a very deep message. Dreamers are people that were brought into the country at a young age (undocumented), but on a path to obtaining their legal status. The cartoon seeks to point out that with Trump in office, many…[Read more]

The photo I selected is a similar image to those that my classmates posted: Protests (post 9/11) against Islam. The posters being carried by the protesters both reveal the same stereotype at heart – that all Muslim/Islamic/Southeast Asian people are terrorists. After 9/11 occurred, widespread fear took over the United States and the people wanted…[Read more]

The photos I selected relating to the topic of Japanese American Internment were two nearly identical images. The first image displays three Japanese American children behind barbed wire fence in one of the Internment Camps. The second image displays about a dozen Polish children behind barbed wire fence in a concentration camp in Poland. If you…[Read more]

The photo I have chosen is of James Baldwin smiling. There isn’t necessarily a historical significance to this image but it portrays him as a more “human” civil rights leader. Other civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, for example, are usually portrayed preaching or giving speeches, often making a “power” gesture with…[Read more]

The photo I have selected is from the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 21st, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr. is seen here leading a large group, alongside his wife, Coretta Scott King, protesting the voting rights (or lack thereof) of African Americans. This march is often highlighted when discussing the factors that led to the…[Read more]

The image I choose to present to the photo share was of Emily Ratajkowski (actress, model) and Amy Schumer (actress, comedian) protesting the Brett Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court to replace Anthony Kennedy. A total of 302 people were arrested on that day, protesting outside a Senate building in D.C., both Ratajkowski and Schumer…[Read more]