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Part 1: What do you make of LatinoUSA's reflections on the ways that beauty and self expression become organizing elements of forming community? Can you find any similarities to Brenda Barnes' reflections on her own butch identity?
Part 2: How do both of these texts present self expression as a site of pleasure and self discovery? How can self-expression in these pieces also make us vulnerable to disapproval, exploitation, or shame? As you answer this question, please also discuss one gendered aspect of self expression that is central to your daily life.
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The Latino USA gives reflections on how self-expression and beauty can be used as
organizing elements of a community. Latino USA states that there are different ways in which
beauty shows up in the community and this beauty is used as an identity to the community and as
a means of self-expression. For instance, a community can come up with a vocabulary and this
vocabulary is used for identity. When such a vocabulary is mentioned, one is able to know the
community that is being addressed. Beauty and self-expression is used in organizing the
community as it states what the community expects fro...
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