Recently I came across the article Reinventing The Feminist Wheel by Sayantani DasGupta, which to me, as a kinky white Australian woman, speaks of the importance of fostering critical awareness of how feminism (in the Western/monolithic sense) can be exclusionary and hegemonic (read: othering). This fits into recent discussions on intersectionality ( Read more... )

In honor of the recent excellent posts about intersectionality:

( my dilemma )

but the geniuses on my flist keep feeding me excellent material and i keep coming across great stuff, so i'll keep on 'til the cows come home or i get booed off stage ( Read more... )

Someone somewhere in one of the recent threads asked a valid question about feminism and womanism... why the couldn't be one cohesive movement. I was poking around a site I used for a research paper and found some gold on this topic. This is taken from a (white) reporter who reported on a forum for people of color. She reports that this is what ( Read more... )

Obviously, redindigo was onto something when she posted about heteronormativity and heterocentrism, at least judging from the 312 commentsSo, I'll risk appearing the angry, man-hating separatist dyke and attempt to move this conversation to the next level ( Read more... )

Just a brief post to tell you how the women's day off rally went.

Somewhere between 40 and 50 thousand women showed up and the downtown area was bursting at the seams. Spirits were high - I marched along with my mother and my friend fangor - although we gave up halfway through the march and took a shortcut down to the square were the stage was set up. ( Read more... )

I find it a little unnerving when i meet a woman who feels there is a stigma attached to feminism or being a feminist, could it be because of the following ( Read more... )

A friend of a friend posted a link to this article, The End of Courtship. It says, among other things ( Read more... )

Feminists have many different perspectives on child-raising and motherhood - some of us want it, and some of us don't. Some of us want full-time careers, some of us want part-time careers, and some of us don't want to have a career and would rather stay home. In short - we're different and have different wants/needs. I worry that the workforce at ( Read more... )

maclyn shared a post with the community a few days ago urging us all to acknowledge and reflect on the US-centric posts that have proliferated and become standard in this community.  in that same vein, i'm calling on everyone to pause and reflect on their own heterocentric inclinations.  the posts recently, and in general, have been very much focused on ( Read more... )