Feminism and the mythopoetic men's movement: Some shared concepts of gender
Helen Gremillion, 2011 Women's Studies J.
"certain strands of feminist thought, which have gained wide popularity in various forms, share constructs of gender with the MMM: namely, a tendency to represent gender as binary and to imagine gender as a stand alone variable of social life."
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when in the United States people find mass graves, y'all need to start looking at those places not as archeological sites but crime scenes. the crime? #genocide
this is what #intersectionality is all about and why fascists are out to kill anybody who insists on using these cognitive and scholastic tools to uncover the real history of the United States.
Its International Womens Day, and one of the key questions that often comes up around contemporary feminism its relations with issues of intersectionality.
So here's Ann Phoenix (UCL) exploring how intersectionality can strengthen feminism & its aims.
Prejudices & discriminations interact & compound each other... this should prompt solidarity not tension or conflict between us - together we are stronger!
And before you knew it, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras board had reversed the decision to disallow cops to march. The amount of 🥾👅 white queers, trans, & allies outraged online at their exclusion has been thoroughly demoralising.
I'm torn about my own participation this Saturday. I have been looking forward to marching with Trans Pride Australia before I move away from Sydney this year. And frankly the numbers of trans folk who seemingly have little to no commitment to intersectional justice is staggeringly disturbing.
I'm so angry with the cashed up & middle class queer that are simping for the actors of state violence.
Excited to be part of @mitosiscollective - we are a newly formed anarchist intersectional radical communal care collective! We see all forms of oppression as interconnected. Our intersectional values lead us to oppose all forms of oppression and injustice, including but not limited to ableism, speciesism, racism, queerphobia. We advocate for wearing masks, cleaning the air, accessibility, inclusion. Please follow the account for more information and updates!
For our third zine we would like to critically examine some positive examples of community organizing that happened during the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic.
We would like to ask what went well, what could be improved, also how #CommunalCare and #MutualAid projects can scale and how we can turn them into a #PrefigurativePractice to help us get ready for any upcoming crisis and/or pandemic.
If this interests you, please join us to work on this zine.
If you know of interesting projects to examine, please let us know.
lettertoourcomrades[at]pronton[dot]me or DM us here.
"nine out of ten autistic women victims of sexual violence."
I do run into autistic men sometimes, that feel victimized. And there are many reasons for that, that we don't need to discuss. Just sometimes they start crying about girls having it easier. I know. you laugh, but it still happens. And there's also those neurodivergent men who suffer from not being able to be trad. men. Living up to toxic standards. And they get all bamboozled and start believing, women have an easier time. You laugh. But again. It happens. That's why I'm linking this paper, again. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35558435/
Some neurodivergent white males have never thought about intersectionality. I raised my kid in a poor neighborhood. The amount of misogyny that rains down on a female baby that acts out, screams, causes trouble, displays aggression, is ridiculous. There is a reason for female autistic masking. Which, together with gender data gap ( misogyny ) creates the four in one ratio in diagnoses of autism. The reason for masking is survival. And survival gets more difficult with each intersection you have in your life. I don't want to explain this time and again. Please, autistic males, get your colleagues up to speed.That's why I'm posting this. #intersectionality#feminism @actuallyautistic
FYI: There are white women who see Black women’s joy as an expression of them “getting above their station.” It’s beyond their (WW’s) control, which infuriates them. Many white women are subconsciously angry w/themselves for ceding subservience to their mates, which manifests as redirecting their anger to WOC.
Colonialism and Orientalism are unfortunately deeply rooted in Western feminism. In a more recent conference I was invited to speak, at some point somebody asked about pluriversality and anticolonialism in feminist activism. The quantity of oriental comments and assumptions about non-Western cultures was appalling. When I tried
to explain my own personal experience with Quechua communities in Peru, explaining how women in those societies didn't necessarily see themselves as oppressed by men (instead they were very well aware of the colonial oppression with Western culture and Spanish language impose on them), my own experience, the information I gather by talking with those women, was simply
dismissed by the conference chair by her commenting: "Unfortunately women internalise their oppression sometimes and can't see it anymore" and moving to another unrelated question.
That conference for me was eye-opening: despite many of the issues that has been touched are important (like abortion and reproductive rights), the feminist approach promoted was completely Western-centered. A kind of
"Barbie feminism": a superficial, white feminism that universalise the concept of women, and see some cultures as 'inferior' and 'so patriarchal' that they will accept even them being bombed, slaughtered, and subject to white violence. Muslim women are particularly despised by those feminists, as an Iranian woman who grew up in Italy once told me:
'They accept us only if we reject our religion and start to wear Western clothes'.
So, I'm not surprised that feminist scholars don't care about Palestinian women, or Palestinian LGBTQ+ community, for that matter. It's a shame and a stain on the feminist movement.
But not all feminists have been silent on Palestine. #NonUnaDiMeno openly supports Palestinians self-determination:
"Focus on the Family—it's hard to overstate its influence in global Evangelicalism"
"It was these relationships with authority and submission that were the key way that people learned to live out their lives as Christians within this world. It meant that defending that family in the political sphere became widely understood as a way to defend God as well."
"What we see in the history of the United States is that Christians use their ideas of the nuclear family as a way to set themselves apart from First Nations peoples who have very different kinds of family forums. The family, the nuclear family, the patriarchal family has always been seen as a Christian good connected to private property. And it's often been connected to whiteness. It's how whiteness has been defined"
"Labor struggles can't be reduced to banal workplace demands. To remain relevant, #unions must continue broadening their scope beyond parochial concerns of single workplaces to all of civil society; unions thus must be antiracist & antifascist, center #feminist values & the abolitionist opposition to carceral society, & be decolonialist. #Intersectionality is the rocket-fuel that will make labor/class issues salient for whom those issues matter most."
We've got a great Saturday afternoon watch for you today. Take a look at this episode of In The Know with Kay Ulanday Barrett, Chella Man and Aaron Rose Phillip - they're focussing on intersectionality in the queer community.
We had this weird incident with this NVC guy who stumbled into the autistic conversation. It points to a pattern that I have experienced every-wheres in the world of psychology, self help and counseling or coaching. The whole field of emotions, social interactions and standards is heavily intersectional. Listen to black women. Listen to any women. Listen to poor people. Listen to any minority, because all of us together are the minority. Any white normie male that enters the conversation should first listen. All of those techniques invented by white middleclass males are limited. They have to be. Cus they know only a tiny fraction of the universe of communication. Yet, most of the inventions we hear about, that make it to popularity and that people found careers on, are from exactly those white males. They are the ones that receive the most attention when doing something new, founding a brand or school. It's harder for anyone else to get that recognition, especially as they will cause apprehension in those who perceive them as foreign and have unconscious bias against them. It's like the blond boys who got top ranks on you tube. DON#t be fooled. There is no rule for communication, that a white dude has invented and that everyone should abide by. It's a huge pile of BS.
As we need to heal exactly from the narrow culture that these people represent, we need to invent our own techniques and standards and explore what brings us forward. We don't help our cause if we overly respect these figures, just because they come across as selfassured. @actuallyautistic #intersectionality
Could I add that this is often seen in the new age, and other wellbeing BS as well?
We have a huge issue with all of this BS with people falling in these traps. These are beliefs and absolutely not evidence based. People have to be careful with all of the BS around.
Please read and share this letter with your comrades alongside with groups, events and spaces you are part of. Many people and groups involved in radical organising have sadly surrendered to the capitalist, eugenics and ableist narrative - and thus practices - that pretends there isn't an ongoing pandemic, thus ignoring how Covid is still killing people alongside being a mass disabling event. This letter hopes to help change this and amplify voices and experiences that have sadly been marginalised and ignored, whilst giving practical advice regarding Covid safety for organising, spaces and events.
"We need to try and create the kind of events, spaces and groups that can serve as models for a future, better, world. This is what prefigurative praxis looks like. It is the work we need to do."