Three months ago, I would have never imagined learning so much in a feminism class, shamelessly initially taken to fulfill the Ethnicity and Race general education requirement. However since choosing this class spring quarter, I have learned that there was an underlying reason for me taking this class. Feminism means so much more than just the equality between men and women, which was my initial thought. Especially through one of the last topics we covered on transgender rights, I have learned that to be a feminist is to thrive to have equality for all. It is a daunting task, but stories in the reader and films watched this last quarter have taught me that in order to make history you need to want a strong desire to change constructs for the better. Kumu Hina from Kumu Hina:…show more content… Colonialism perpetuates the gender binary. Believing that the only two genders present are male and female is normalized and therefore runs into problems when bestowing beliefs on its citizens. In cases like Kumu Hina, this is what makes coming out as anything but cis-gender hard.
All in all, it is a bit exclusive to say that Kumu Hina had no correlation to my experience in Feminism & Social Justice. The overarching theme is that there is no “normal” like we were all taught to believe. Everyone is a little different and as a society set to thrive in forward thinking we should work to accept these varieties instead of shut them down. Hawaii is an idol state in the fact that they have struggled and won to become a sovereign state in the face of also being a part of the United States, meaning they have maintained their native Hawaiian culture, even when there was a lack of
