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Blog 3 - Brianna Chancay

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Semper Fi A cultural artifact that has personally impacted me in compelling ways that have been immeasurable and abundant is the United States Marine Corps. Now, I understand this may be a reach for some of you to understand. However, for those of you who may be familiar with the military lifestyle will understand completely what I mean when I say that the Marine Corps has shaped and defined who I am today. The Marine Corps has played a tremendous role on where I stand in this society as a female and a woman and has instilled in me qualities for which I am forever thankful. I could only imagine the impact the Marine Corps would have on me if I was actually enlisted. Both my mother and father served in the United States Marine Corps. My mother served 10 years and my father served 20 years. I guess looking back on it now being raised by two very successful hard core Marines wasn’t easy but it was all I ever knew. What this meant for me was that I had to be strong enough mentally a...
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Blog 2 - Brianna Chancay

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Brianna Chancay Prompt 1: Since the beginning of time sports and the involvement in physical activities have played an important role in our culture, being one of many determining factors for the positions boys and girls have been set by society's norms to act upon or represent. Here I have chosen a cultural artifact by which challenges gender representation normality through our media. It has been set that the male figure or otherwise known as boys are typically the ones to represent strength and aggression whereas here in the image I provided goes against the grain of this ideology. Typically, girls are shown representing traits such as warmth, gentleness and passivenesses. However challenging these normalities, visually two strong and very powerful female soccer players go head to head in battle for the soccer ball. I chose this particular example because I personally am in favor and rooting for all soccer girls and female athletes in general. I think girls should be ab...
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Blog 1 - Brianna Chancay

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Prompt 1: Our future as a society and as a community is n o n b i n a r y and our children will be lucky enough to have been born in a time where they will not need to worry whether being themselves is acceptable. I can only speak on my behalf about what it really means to be a woman, a young lady and a heterosexual girl. I feel adamant that my generation of individuals are growing up during a very influential and pivotal time period. This is a time when whoever or whatever you identify or consider yourself as, has no longer deemed down to just female and male. We are living and breathing products of how our society is allowing us to fluidly be and act upon the way we feel best as human beings. Dating back to biblical times, I feel as though we have always just said that a man was suppose to be with a woman and that there could only be man and woman. That is wrong. It is wrong in the sense that we are not just those two things but much more and from an even larger perspecti...
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