Hips (A Vignette from The House on Mango Street) by Jackson Brookens-Coleman

Your Group Members and Critical Lens

jbrookenscoleman — 2023-11-29 14:51:50 UTC

an example of how your critical lens applies to the Hips Vignette (Find as many as you can)
A quote from the Vignette that applies to your Critical lens

Simmone, Nina, Val & Feminist Lens

2023-11-29 22:42:37 UTC

Examples of the feminist lens:

Hips are good for doing "lady things" - holding a baby while cooking
If you don't get hips you turn into a man
Science - what's a man vs a woman
Need them to have babies
Have to know what to do with them when you get them
Sister code - can or cannot say something because they're sisters
"I like the boys, the boys like me"
Hips are like a new car, have to put the key in the new car
Waitress with the big fat hips, but no one will kiss her because she looks like Christopher Columbus"
Frame of reference (naming a skin color) is related to laundry

Quote:

"But don't have too many or your behind will spread" 50

Alyssa, Matt and Lexi and The Marxist Lens

2023-11-29 22:43:42 UTC

"Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition."

"I want to be Tahiti. Or merengue. Or electricity. Or tembleque! Yes, tembleque. That's a good one."

"The little gold earrings our momma gave her for her first Holy Communion."

Based on reading this in a vacuum, these girls seem to be familiar with money. Those desserts are fancy, the mention of a nice car and the gold earrings are all suggestive of some money.

Jarrett, Bailey, Carolyn, Michael

2023-11-29 22:46:23 UTC

Feminist lens and queer lens and racial lens. There is an assumption that these girls are going to grow up straight. Hips are often used as a sign of sexuality, particularly in communities that are not White. "An Homage to my Hips" by Lucille Clifton. It almost feels like having hips can lead to a diminishing of a person's value, if they are excessive. As you grow older, you grow hips which can help you get a man, which can help you have a baby, which then leads to you basically widening.
"She is the color of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister"
"She is too many light-years away. She is in a world we don't belong anymore."

CRT - Emmy, Brie, Makayla

2023-11-29 22:46:47 UTC

The inclusion of culture - styles of dance like merengue & tembleque

"She is the color of a bar if naptha laundry soap, she is like the brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister."