Jubilee Mwasa

GENDER

For centuries, women fight for their place in society, having to overcome unfair treatment and inequality in work fields, justice systems, and many more. Octavia.E. Butler and Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary illustrates the theme of gender both in slavery times, the mid-20th century in Kindred (1979), and the video on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (2008). Although Butler and Leary explore several topics through their work, they distinctly demonstrate how Black women have little to no power compared to men, are deprived of their role as mothers, and are indiscriminately raped.