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Situating Oppressions (1/23) (Adichie "We Should All Be…
Situating Oppressions (1/23)
Frye "Oppression"
not everybody is oppressed, and I have to teach you what "real oppression" is; debunking feeling abd means oppression
looking at oppression STRUCTURALLY (i.e. taking a step back) instead of microscopically
Adichie "We Should All Be Feminists"
tedtalks, esp with Adichie, inform us of experiences of other cultures
dispels myth that only women are feminists; she ends with Kene and men or women can be feminists (Natasha adding on "all genders" but also, hey it's 2012)
limitations: where does LGBTQ go n this argument? Kene is masculine and good-looking: rhetorically, still secures "masculinity"; what if it also locks masculinity only onto men and femininity on women?
uses a dictionary to set up a clear cut thing: anyone can be a feminist if you believe that women should have equality
an "enlightenment" project--yo, take a toe dip in, this is fine
"people make culture, culture doesn't make people": gender as over-determined by culture; also fantasies of "bottom power" and how that's not power
This Bridge Called My Back
"Catching Fire"
Moraga responding in 2015 to global and national crisis; military intervention and occupation
the personal is profoundly political (the list of events from 81-2015
we keep seeing our dreams dashed over and over; history is not progressive/teleological
"we need political memory" (19)
women and women of color--looking at the intersection of race and gender
the power of technology/globalization? : "
tech as solidarity: by joining Egyptian rev with MeXicana farmers' rights, it's about multicultural recognition and solidarity
"The Bridge Poem"
the emotional labor of explaining yourself to EVERYONE; burden of tokenism; repetition of "sick"
mirrors the everyday experiences of racism and sexism; the burden of translations
La Guera
internalized racism and facing/reconizing one's own inner baggage. "I have internalized a racism" (25)
tells history of disidentification and internalized classisms, colorisms and white passing. Access to education and literacy
her lesbianism confronts her assumptions about white passing and class structures; fears of living at the intersection of multiple vulnerabilities
Gee, You DOn't Seem Like an Indian
It's in my Blood
Moraga and Anzaldua's Intro (1981)
"feminism" as a whole thing was alienating to women of color; "wanted to create a definition that expanded"