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I just wanted to say that I really liked that Kempadoo challenged the first-world assumption of women of color and third-world women as victims. I think also that her taking on the idea of "the dominant Euro-American definition of the family, domestic work and the house-hold" (38) is very relevant to our conversations from throughout the semester and not only this week. It's important to always remember the site and context in which we're having our conversations about gender and sexuality, and despite where we all come from, our conversations are happening in an affluent, first-world, predominantly white bi-co community.

Going back to our conversation with Felice Picano, I think that there's a certain extent to which our queer theory and post-modern/post-gender/etc. ideologies are still very much only really accessible to those who are privy to the liberal, academic community in various colleges and universities. I think I have yet to hear about anyone outside of this class or any of the feminist/queer theory courses that I've taken using this kind of jargon or really even identifying as such. Not to say that it doesn't happen because I know it does - it's a growing movement/community, but I do think that it's small and still pretty abstract.

I'm excited to talk about Born into Brothels. I've talked about it in two classes before, and it's always been exciting to hear about new takes on the film and the issues that get confronted/raised in the film.