Katsa of Herself Twitter

https://twitter.com/Katsaofherself

Twitter

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I made her username Katsaofherself instead of something like Katsaofthemiddluns because she belongs to herself and she is also a person who likes to keep things simple. I chose the profile and header pictures because they are gender ambiguous and they represent Katsa finally seeing the beach and the freedom she gained over the course of the book.

I followed Planned Parenthood and the Karate Girls because Planned Parenthood is a safe place for people to go to ensure that they are healthy and for family planning. Throughout the book Katsa says that she does not want marriage or kids and I think she would support a group that empowers women by giving them access to healthcare, birth control, and fertility help. The Karate Girls is a twitter that is about girls who do Karate. Katsa thought it very important that girls are able to defend themselves. She even questioned why men are given all the training when girls are supposed to be need protection. She did not like that women were left to rely on their brothers, husbands, sons, and fathers for protection. I followed Hillary Clinton because I think she represents a strong woman and I think Katsa would agree and support her. I followed Ashton Kutcher because of his work in trafficking. I think Katsa would follow that because her work with the council shows that she likes to save people and she would follow someone who also saves people. I followed Ruby Rose because she is genderfluid and prefers a more androgynous look. I think Katsa, if she lived in our time, would be similar.

1. I also made a few tweets.

I'll do whatever it takes to empower those who need it

Women should be able to defend themselves

Lik

He showed me control and I showed him acceptance

R

Like

My saving grace was learning of my survival grace

A woman doesn't need a husband or a child to find purpose in the world.

The tweets are about some of her principles and one is about her relationship Po. that is the most vague tweet because I don't think she would be overly emotional or obvious when she tweets about him and she wouldn't tweet about him often.

Category B Prompt C

Comparisons to Heroes

"My birth certificate says: Female Negro Mother: Mary Anne Irby, 22, Negro Father: Jack Austin Woodson, 25, Negro In Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. is planning a march on Washington, where John F. Kennedy is president. In Harlem, Malcolm X is standing on a soapbox talking about a revolution. Outside the window of University Hospital, snow is slowly falling. So much already covers this vast Ohio ground. In Montgomery, only seven years have passed since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus. I am born brown-skinned, black-haired and wide-eyed. I am born Negro here and Colored there and somewhere else, the Freedom Singers have linked arms, their protests rising into song: Deep in my heart, I do believe that we shall overcome someday. and somewhere else, James Baldwin is writing about injustice, each novel, each essay, changing the world. I do not yet know who I’ll be what I’ll say how I’ll say it . . . Not even three years have passed since a brown girl named Ruby Bridges walked into an all-white school. Armed guards surrounded her while hundreds of white people spat and called her names. She was six years old. I do not know if I’ll be strong like Ruby. I do not know what the world will look like when I am finally able to walk, speak, write . . . Another Buckeye! the nurse says to my mother. Already, I am being named for this place. Ohio. The Buckeye State. My fingers curl into fists, automatically This is the way, my mother said, of every baby’s hand. I do not know if these hands will become Malcolm’s—raised and fisted or Martin’s—open and asking or James’s—curled around a pen. I do not know if these hands will be Rosa’s or Ruby’s gently gloved and fiercely folded calmly in a lap, on a desk, around a book, ready to change the world..."

This passage from Brown Girl Dreaming starts the novel off strong with a in-depth look at the racial divide between the only two day old Jackie and the rest of the world around her. Jackie first compares her infant self to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, James Baldwin, and Ruby Bridges. The author makes these pseudo comparisons by referring to the untapped potential within the young Jackie. Will she become an incredible orator like Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X? Will she pick up a pen and write like James Baldwin? Or could she possibly find some other route to take akin to Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges? This entire passage deals with the oppression that Jackie feels even a day into her life on this planet. The need to immediately assume the mantle of a hero that fights for her peoples rights details just how incredibly powerful the feelings of oppression were as they assaulted the author throughout the process of this novels creation. Having her main character identify with the heroes of her people so soon after her birth represents the need for more of these heroes and the need for some kind of drastic change, a feeling which pervades the remainder of the novel. 

This passage also affirms the characters faith in her people. Jackie, even at the age of two days old, is already convinced that the people she listed off are doing the right thing. Now, obviously this is the voice of the author speaking creatively through the narrator looking back on her own life, but it really does drive the point home in an astounding way. She knows that the world must change, after existing in it for a measly 24 hours. She does not ever question what these people fight for, knowing inherently that it is the right thing to be fighting for. She needs no convincing of it, even at her incredibly young age. This passage links her to the fight that these heroes embody, and connect her with their struggle for the rest of her lifetime.