The Sexual, Racial, and Feminine Identities of Postsecret

This blog was created to explore the sexual, racial, and feminine identities portrayed in the postcards of Postsecret. When I started out with this blog, I began by questioning the purpose of Postsecret and the need for secrets and how they affect us. I briefly touched upon family secrets - because family is the first and smallest network a person is involved in and affected by. I also talked about why Postsecret might help people relieve the burden of their own identity. My main focus, however, was how society creates secrets and shameful feelings and makes people feel bad about their thoughts and themselves. All of the postcards I selected to analyze are peoples way of voicing their opinions and to make their secret someone else's secret as well.
As Guy Debord said in our reading"Society of the Spectacle", "the spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images" (page 1, #4). Postsecret is a spectacle. It is a "social relation among people" and they use images and text to create this relation. I find the idea of Postsecret genius - it spreads what people think are secrets or shameful and are accepted by a community. The postcards of everyday people show secrets that American society would accept and others that open our eyes to new ideas and feelings. I really enjoyed making this blog and exploring the identities represented in Postsecret, and I hope this blog can show how Postsecret is a way of visualizing different identities such as femininity, sexuality, and race.