Thanks, and Farewell!
Today marks the end of my guest-blogging stint here at Feministe. It’s been thought-provoking and challenging for me (good things, in my book!), and I’m grateful for all of your ideas and energy. Thanks again to Jill for inviting me to spend some time here. I’ll stick around in the comments, and you can find [...]
...read moreToward a Liberationist Feminism (Or, I Hope Pro-Capitalist Feminism Is an Oxymoron)
1. We’re all well aware that online discourse around feminism/s lately has heated up around varying definitions of what feminism is and should be. One of the most persistent areas of debate has been whether “intersectionality,” or a multi-issue politic, is spreading feminism too thin. I don’t want to repeat the many and strong arguments [...]
...read moreSouth Central Farm to Forever 21?
This just in: Turns out the former site of the South Central Farm – where low-income, indigenous/immigrant Latino farmers grew food in the midst of a toxic industrial area for 14 years before being evicted two summers ago in one of the saddest, most maddening examples of private business interests trumping community and environmental good [...]
...read moreEnough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism
I was planning to post about this awesome project anyway, but Octogalore’s post about capitalism below made it feel especially timely, so: If you haven’t already, you might want to spend some time at Enough, a new web project created by the marvelous Tyrone Boucher and Dean Spade to explore how a commitment to wealth [...]
...read moreIn Which Solnit and BFP Split Some S*it Right Open
So it’s an era of content overload, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how to apply a sort of slow-food/deep-economy/earth-democracy ethic to media making and consumption, and that has me thinking about what kind of media really moves and disrupts and changes and inspires, and I find myself most valuing writing that is rigorous [...]
...read moreBlast from the Recent Past
Since the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival just passed and many people have been writing online about that many-years-running debacle/struggle, I thought I’d link to an oldie-but-goodie, Emi Koyama’s “Whose Feminism Is It, Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate,” which substantially expanded my understanding of the situation when I read it in 2002. [...]
...read more(No) Fear of Spying
Came across these articles over the weekend, reporting that declassified police-surveillance files on 1970s “Women’s Liberation Groups — Canada” were made public this week. Of course, state surveillance of activists in nations that vociferously proclaim themselves to be “free” is not a thing of the past. Antiwar, bicycling, vegan, environmental, and other communities are being [...]
...read moreHello from Another Guest Blogger
Hi, all. I’m excited to be joining you for the next two weeks as a guest blogger. (Thanks, Jill, for the invitation!) By way of introduction, a bit about me: I’m a member of the editorial and publishing collective behind make/shift magazine. I also freelance as a writer and editor and contribute to the group [...]
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