Global Gender

While I was in the Institute for Multimedia Literacy building yesterday working on a film shoot, I read a quote one of the students had left on the board that said essentially that gender, like skin color, are particular attributes that no longer seem as defining as before when they were used as barriers for all kinds of segregation, subordination and injustice. Because it was the IML building there were other quotes about technology, the media and the internet. The juxtaposition of these thoughts led me to consider the globalization of gender.

The interconnectivity of globalization coupled with the erosion of identity has crippled the significance of race, gender and nationality by crumbling the barriers perceived between them. The technology that enables us to disturb the correlation between actual self and virtual self has helped to debunk the dogmas and stigmas attached to race, gender and nationality, by neutralizing the divisions. Because it is exponentially easier in myriad ways to supersede, and transcend those seemingly impenetrable boundaries attached to those ideas, we are becoming more connected on a global scale, we are becoming more connected as a global family.