Feminist imagination and daring to dream: bell hooks and Melissa Harris Perry
On Saturday morning I watched the conversation between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry. I sat there and, half way through, I realized I was seeing …
Yay! Permission from a white cis dude not to identify as a feminist!
Ah, gotta love Jezebel’s consistency here. Less than a week ago, they published “The Many Misguided Reasons Famous Ladies Say I’m Not a Feminist”. They …
Flavia, it’s reductive to blame oppressive structures within other cultures entirely on colonizers. The caste system? We had these problems before the whites came. We had these problems before the Mughals came. Frankly, it’s insulting to lay the blame entirely on whites — it absolves US of OUR responsibility for the crimes of caste. All we’re saying is that whites aren’t responsible for every problem in the world, which is pretty much what you said in your OP.
I’ve never written a single word about the caste system in India. I simply said colonialism exacerbated a great deal of issues between different minorities …
I know a lot of what your talking about is European eccentric but the oppression of minorities is not just white problem. The fight for rights in Japan is a topic close to my heart and when we label the oppressor as “white” I feel we devalue the struggle of people who are oppressed by non-white individuals. What do you think?
mahakavi: redlightpolitics: No. A lot of “bad things” happen in the world, I get that. However, many of them (I’d contend all, but I try …
I know a lot of what your talking about is European eccentric but the oppression of minorities is not just white problem. The fight for rights in Japan is a topic close to my heart and when we label the oppressor as “white” I feel we devalue the struggle of people who are oppressed by non-white individuals. What do you think?
No. A lot of “bad things” happen in the world, I get that. However, many of them (I’d contend all, but I try to avoid …
Why I don’t “debate”
Yesterday I mentioned that media has framed the current racist violence taking place in The Netherlands as a “debate”. I am repulsed by this framing …
An intersectional feminist approximation to aesthetics around Zwarte Piet
If this is the first time you encounter mentions of the character of Zwarte Piet, I’d recommend a few readings on the topic (otherwise, most …