WMST 488X: Senior Seminar in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. University of Maryland College Park. Spring 2019. Dr Alexis Lothian.
One of the first things I noticed about “Emergent Strategy” is how much I like the style of the book. It is somewhat quirky in the style, organized lists of quotes, and dictionary definitions of the titles of the chapters. I found this made the book more interesting and hold my attention with the quick …
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In Emergent Strategy, brown describes various elements of emergent strategy that are distinct from one another, but totally connected. The fractal element consists of the “relationship between the small and large.” Fractals are structures that repeats itself in a never-ending battle of patterns. The smallest and simplest of daily work practices unfolds into a paradox …
During my reading of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown, I got similar feelings as I did when reading Feminist Accountability and The Revolution Starts at Home. I thought all of these books were very effective in offering realistic reflections on how to create more positive and productive movements. I thought …
This chapter featured an interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a member of the organization UBUNTU. This organization focuses on the communal support and safety of their counterparts. It was mentioned a few times that they utilize the community accountability method that we read about last week. I thought that it was beneficial to be able …
Part 3 of The Revolution Starts at Home, “(re)claiming body, (re)claiming space”, touches on themes of guilt and performance when detailing cycles of abuse, as well as on the empowerment that comes from establishing boundaries and asserting a right to space and bodily autonomy. This section highlighted inter-community abuse and the silence that surrounds it, …
While I have enjoyed much of the reading up until this point, this section “Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful” has left a bad taste in my mouth concerning both the author(s) (The Chrysalis Collective) and transformative/restorative justice. While it is possible that there are restorative justice practices that may work, the specific process described in this chapter …
After Julie and I presented the first half of our powerpoint/discussion on the book Feminist Accountability, I was so ready to keep the discussion going on what I thought would get into even deeper and possibly more meaningful conversations over the next five chapters. Though I found the beginning conversations to be a bit difficult since …
Our class discussion was so lively yesterday, that we were only able to cover the first half of the book Feminist Accountability. We went over the chapters Cultivating Feminist Accountability, Building Communities, Navigating Speech and Silence, Disrupting Whiteness, Shift Paradigms to End Violence, and a little bit of Collective and Communal Support. An important topic …
The second chapter of Feminist Accountability by Ann Russo details the equating of silence with oppression. Russo describes her personal experience with this, and how it grew in college when she exercised her “fighting” oppression by constantly speaking up for every type of injustice she saw or hear, she was taking up the space and …
In chapter one of Feminist Accountability Russo, in the second essay , “Navigating Speech and Silence”, Ann Russo discusses her journey towards realizing that using her voice in every given situation, especially her voice as a middle-class, queer, white woman, does not always equate with liberation points to how the centering of whiteness in various …