Blog 13

I have viewed part of the short film, God Sleeps in Rwanda, before, so I knew what it was about; however, this was the first time I viewed the short film in its entirety.  From the short film, I learned that before the genocide, women's lives in Rwanda were plain and somewhat boring because they did not have any rights, so all they did mostly all day was just take care of their family.  Many of the women were only teenagers when the genocide happened, so they lost their mothers and fathers at a young age, and although they had to face these hard times without their parents and some of their siblings, the women started to gain more rights after the genocide, such as becoming more political, voting, being able to go to school and get decent jobs, etc.  Even though the women's lives still may not be perfect because they still have those terrible memories, and some are still fighting to feed their families, they have hope that their children's futures will be much brighter and will be given more opportunities.
For the most part, I think this short film, God Sleeps in Rwanda, presents Black female subjectivity.  During the genocide, the women were raped and beaten, which drastically increased their chances of getting HIV/AIDS, so that makes the Black females objects because they are only seen as sexual.  However, after the genocide, Black females were seen as subjects because they were becoming political and being elected in higher roles, they had real jobs that men used to only have, such as police officers, and they were still going to school at night to get an even higher education and get even better jobs, such as lawyers.  The Black women were doing all of this still while taking care of their families and supporting all of their children; therefore, the short film represents them as subjects because it shows that they can do it all on their own without needing help from anyone.