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hey international women's day
Mar. 8th, 2011 12:04 pmI've already been admonished on twitter to not make this about white upper-class cis-women (which, given that I'm neither white nor upper-class, I'm not sure how I could, but point taken, scolding accepted, I am duly chastened) so I thought I'd link you to this excellent Sojourner Truth quote I reblogged on tumblr.
As most of you who read this blog know, I've had a very rocky relationship with feminism this year, as I encountered it in its online form only recently and it really set me back on my heels. It's odd the way that online feminism does make me think a lot more about not being white--not that fandom itself doesn't, and not that, you know, the world we're living in doesn't, but feminism makes me think about it in very different ways than I usually do, like the way that being a biracial woman makes a lot of my assumptions about being a woman very very different. So here are some wishes from me about online feminism as I personally have experienced it.
( four wishes )
I'd say that these four issues are going to keep me pretty distant from online feminism for the forseeable future. Maybe I've just aged out of it; maybe I should have been engaged with it back in the 90s, when I was "in the demo." Maybe I'm just too moderate, too interested in shades of gray rather than dichotomies, to be able to interact with online feminism as it appears to exist now. (And that flow away from moderation is true of the internet in general, I'd argue.) Maybe if you're not Sady Doyle you really are s.o.l. I'm not sure. I don't have any answers here, unfortunately; only questions and wishes.
As most of you who read this blog know, I've had a very rocky relationship with feminism this year, as I encountered it in its online form only recently and it really set me back on my heels. It's odd the way that online feminism does make me think a lot more about not being white--not that fandom itself doesn't, and not that, you know, the world we're living in doesn't, but feminism makes me think about it in very different ways than I usually do, like the way that being a biracial woman makes a lot of my assumptions about being a woman very very different. So here are some wishes from me about online feminism as I personally have experienced it.
( four wishes )
I'd say that these four issues are going to keep me pretty distant from online feminism for the forseeable future. Maybe I've just aged out of it; maybe I should have been engaged with it back in the 90s, when I was "in the demo." Maybe I'm just too moderate, too interested in shades of gray rather than dichotomies, to be able to interact with online feminism as it appears to exist now. (And that flow away from moderation is true of the internet in general, I'd argue.) Maybe if you're not Sady Doyle you really are s.o.l. I'm not sure. I don't have any answers here, unfortunately; only questions and wishes.
