Booboobear98
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editI am glad we have this class together so that we can struggle through tech stuff together! Have fun at the Ed Sheeran concert tonight. ArmatageRush (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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editHello and welcome to your talk page. You can use this message to practice answering, and you should try to contact someone else too!Jagrif02 (talk) 17:34, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
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Sourcing
editHi! You added content to LGBT rights in Kentucky with this edit, however you didn't add any sourcing to back up your claims. Whenever you make a claim, especially when it's related to something that could be seen as controversial (LGBT articles typically are), you must add sourcing to show that this isn't original research or personal opinion. Unsourced content can be challenged and removed from the article, so you need to source this content before it gets removed. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:14, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Feminism
While undertones of feminism can be found throughout most of her career, Beyonce was initially hesitant to publicly align herself with the movement. In a 2013 interview with Vogue she responded, "That word can be very extreme..." when asked whether she considers herself a feminist. [1]This hesitation is in stark contrast to her release of "Flawless" later that year, sampling from the TED talk by feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Achidie "We should all be feminists."
Beyonce has crafted her brand around embracing femininity and female sexuality. Although as Dr. Cheryl Thompson explains in her article “The sweet taste of lemonade: Beyonce serves up black feminist history most recent album,”[2] Beyonce is only recently exploring the intersecting themes of feminism and black empowerment in her work. According to Thompson, Beyonce - like many other black female artists - has held back with her identity as a black woman for the sake of appealing to the masses. Like the SNL skit that pokes fun at white Beyonce fans that listened to “Lemonade” and realized for the first time that Beyonce is indeed a black woman [3], it is only very recently that the artist has transformed her feminist image into something more specific to the issues black women face. As Thompson explains, all of Beyonce’s previous albums were about feminism.“Lemonade” is about black feminism. The importance of having artistry like “Lemonade” in the mainstream is critical to examining the lived experiences of black women, and the racial and gender-based oppression that intersect to create a unique set of obstacles.
Even so, there is no shortage of criticism against Beyonce's particular brand of feminism. Many critics argue that Beyonce is part of the hyper sexualization of women in the pop industry since the 90's, something that occurred largely in sync with the explosion of the porn industry.[Levande, Meredith. “Women, Pop Music, and Pornography.” Meridians, vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 293–321. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40338921.] Beyond this, some feminist critics argue that Beyonce fuels a culture of post-feminism. With songs like Girls (Who Run the World), Beyonce creates a mindset - particularly among teenage girls - that women are already outdoing men in every aspect of life. When the reality is, these critics say, there are still vast gender inequalities that keep them from doing so. The danger of post-feminism is that while they still exist, young people lack the language to label these inequalities as sexism. [POMERANTZ, SHAUNA, et al. “GIRLS RUN THE WORLD? Caught between Sexism and Postfeminism in School.” Gender and Society, vol. 27, no. 2, 2013, pp. 185–207. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23486664.]