Posts tagged womanism
Eshu's Playground
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Umoja (dir. Elizabeth Tadic) tells the story of a group of Samburu women who get tired of men’s shit and start their own women-only community (as in if a man shows up and talks that macho bullshit they kindly suggest that he get the fuck out, sometimes with sticks). Saw this tonight at the Artivist Film Festival, and it was awesome.
(Pssst, notice how they didn’t need Western feminists to tell them how to liberate themselves.)
Before long the black woman’s mythic “strength” became a convenient justification for every atrocity committed on her.
Intersectionality in Black Feminist Thought
Black feminist thought has been a powerful means of social change and is a unique approach to social justice. One of it’s greatest strengths is found in the concept of intersectionality and is often used in Patricia Collin’s work, Black Feminist Thought. Its strengths consists in attempting to find the ways in which various forms of oppression work together to contribute to differential experiences for various groups and individuals. It has been a particularly powerful critique for movements, such as early feminism, that have focused on one oppressed identity as a means for unification and ignored other forms of oppression. It has challenged those movements on the basis that the experiences of the group are not all identical due to differences in race, class, gender, sexuality and any other number of categories of privilege and oppression. However, these various categories are innumerable and this presents serious problems for movements that attempt to incorporate the concept of intersectionality.
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