“Feminist Accountability,” by Ann Russo, highlights the ways that oppressive structures are often unintentionally replicated in the very groups and organizations that attempt to abolish and fight against them. In addition, Russo offers ideas about ways to foster accountability within those groups, hopefully stopping the pattern of those oppressive structures and patterns. In chapter 4, …
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Post Class Reflection 3/28
I was tasked with leading discussion during class on 3/28 and I decided to lead the discussion around Susana Loza, “Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture” reading. I was nervous about leading discussion because I know that it is hard sometimes to get very involved and talkative discussions going for our class. The discussion …
Post-Class Reflection 3/28
We began class with Loza’s “Hashtag Feminism…” article and discussed how social media has given women of color a platform but also how white women/white feminism online has accused WoC of sounding “angry” and subtracting from, rather than contributing to, these conversations. The impact of social media on grassroots movements and community building was also …
Preliminary Proposal: Western and Arabic Feminism
I would like to explore articles written from both a Western and Arabic perspective on feminism. There tends to be certain polarizing topics between the two (such as the importance and focus on the hijab) that causes conflict in the feminist community. This conflict is important now because there is already conflict of culture between …
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Susana Loza: Hashtag Feminism
I found this reading particularly interesting because I am very much interested in 21st century social movements. The “hashtag” movements or “hashtavism” has been heavily discussed in some of my other government courses about social movements and protest. Loza starts her article discussing the #solidarityisforwhitewomen hashtag from 2013, where it went viral and started a …
Words, Words, Words and Beyond Niceness
These two readings reminded me a lot of the past readings and discussions we’ve had about trashing, and the productiveness of punishing activists who misstep. Katherine Cross is an writer and feminist activist. In “Words, Words, Words,” Cross writes about the fear of sharing and writing opinions on feminist discussions, in the political climate of …
Schulman
Sarah Schulman’s, “Abandoning the Personal: The State and the Production of Abuse,” acknowledges the overemphasis of people calling out as an “abuse” when they actually mean “normative conflict.” The misuse of the word can create harm and consequences on how people are treated and seen by the state and society. Schulman further defines abuse as …
Protect Your Heart, Femme Leadership and Hyper-Accountability by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The purpose of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s piece is to tell her story of abuse and struggle as a femme woman of color with disabilities, so that others who have shared experiences and identities could both see they are not alone and change the negative mantra and community abuse that comes along with these identities. Piepzna-Samarasinha’s …
Reflection on TERF Readings
Transgender studies, despite becoming a recently discussed topic in mainstream media and politics, has been around far longer than most people realize. Susan Stryker’s “Transgender History: The Roots of Todays Revolution” gives readers an overview of the history of transgender in the United States. She starts with the feminist transphobia in the 1970’s, where many …
Final Project Proposal
After class discussion today, I’ve decided the conflict I want to research for my project is TERFs. This conflict is significant because it is a conflict that is recently gaining a lot of traction an resurfacing as a possibly prominent and definitely dangerous and harmful rhetoric. Questions to explore in this conflict could be how …