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"And don't think you gonna know when the ends gonna be Cause if you knew that little piece of information Then wed be calling you God And as you see, baby, we aint" - Slanguage:  Performed by Pika Whitman Nobody knows what the future has in store, and the further you look, the more uncertain things get. But to make the best guess, you must look at the past. Sometimes, history is doomed to repeat itself, or we can learn from it and move toward a better society. We take two steps forward to take one step back, such as womens rights. We are making the workplace equal, closing the pay gap, and putting fewer scripts on them. However, women's rights to abortions are being taken away daily. If we look at the history of LGBTQ rights in America, we see that we have come a long way in getting society to accept and respect LGBTQ individuals. Then, in 2022, we have a slew of Dont Say Gay laws that became state laws.  In both of these scenarios, it was mostly culturally acceptable

Marriage bans were an important stepping stone in preventing the economic development of minorities. People dream of marriage, finding a special someone to fall in love with, then propose and get married. Not only do the benefits of marriage include spending the rest of your life with someone, but also IRS tax cuts, Social Security benefits, insurance savings, and even citizenship. This helps build generational wealth, giving voting power to some and, thus, causing a married couple to have more power in society. So, laws prohibiting marriage between two people of the same sex or different races limit access to a higher form of living. Same-sex and Interracial marriage bans are mostly similar because of their discriminatory practices that prevented the development of minorities, but Same-sex Bans were created to keep natural law rules intact and are tied to religion, while interracial bans were to keep the white race pure and citizenship of foreigners low.    Marriage bans for people of

  Paper #2: insider/outsider                                                                           (903 Words) Throughout the history of the United States, minority groups that did not conform to the dominant cultural norms have been subjected to systematic discrimination and marginalization. Among these groups, the LGBTQ community has been particularly targeted, experiencing various forms of oppression, suppression, discrimination, and exclusion from political and social institutions. Despite significant progress in the past few decades, the legacy of this discrimination and marginalization continues to have a profound impact on LGBTQ people today, affecting some members of LGBTQ more than others. By comparing the experiences of LGBTQ groups from the 1960s to the present day, we can see how far we have come but also how much further we have to go in terms of achieving full equality and inclusion. Starting in the late 60s, the Stonewall Riots marked as a major turning point in

  Paper #1: Understanding Identity                                                            (1,132 Words) Intersectionality is “an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., ‘race’/ethnicity, Indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion)” (Hankivsky, 2014, p. 2). Since I am human, I have a variety of different social identities that make up who I am. Intersectionality specifically is the focus on the power relationships between each social identity. In my case, as a dark-skinned, non-binary African American, I occupy two historically suppressed minority groups. However, because my gender expression usually differs from my gender identity, society sees me as a black male. Thus, the scripts of black males get imposed on me. But when I'm more feminine, society is disgusted at me and sees me as someone who needs to stay away from children. No matter what gender identity I i