https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s [GSST1S Photo Essay] The time in my life when I still identified as female. en-us 2022-02-12 22:24:59 UTC 2022-02-21 01:25:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f338.png awong191 https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057749639 As a young kid, my mother would often buy me clothes that she wanted me to wear. In this case, for Easter, she had bought me a light pink dress. This plays into the idea of gender being socially constructed that is discussed in Judith Lorber's "'Night to his Day': The Social Construction of Gender." The clothes bought for me acted as a gender marker my parents placed on me. In this way, my parents had started gendering me from birth via my clothes in order to fit into society's ideas of what it means to be a female.]]> 2022-02-20 23:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057749639 awong191 https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057750952 I had joined Girl Scouts when in elementary and middle school where much of my time was oriented towards outreach services. When looking at Girl Scouts versus Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts are more focused on outreach while Boy scouts are more self-oriented. This also plays into Lorber’s idea of the social construction of gender, as society views women as people who serve while men are more self-centered. These roles within Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts help to reinforce this as they teach kids these kinds of values and helps to form their behaviors.]]> 2022-02-20 23:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057750952 awong191 https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057751524 During a point in my life, I felt that I needed to dress up more feminine. I had gotten a wig that had much longer hair than my own at the time and put it on along with some makeup to take this picture of myself. This contributes to the concept of "doing gender" that is discussed by Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman. Performing femininely in my photos, I felt that I needed to do what was socially perceived as what most women would do. This is a clear action of me performing gender.]]> 2022-02-20 23:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057751524 awong191 https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057752662 At one point in my earlier teen years, I decided that I wanted to cut my hair short. In some ways, this ties together with the idea of female masculinity which is discussed by Athena Nguyen. The people I knew had thought my hair was way too short and looked "unnatural." Though in some ways, I was still trapped within the social constructions of gender such as my uniform, I had begun to defy the idea of femininity and tried to claim a form of masculinity for myself as a female.]]> 2022-02-20 23:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057752662 awong191 https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057752987 After leaving my Catholic school, I got the experience to try different types of clothing. In this way, I was able to wear less feminine clothes and dress more androgynously. This also contributes to Athena Nguyen's ideas of female masculinity, as I was trying to defy societal norms of gender in the way I dressed and appeared to others.]]> 2022-02-20 23:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/awong191/gsst1s/wish/2057752987