why I love being a women's studies major
From my Feminist Theory class:
"Goodbye, goodbye forever, counterfeit Left, counterleft, male-dominated cracked-glass mirror reflection of the Amerikan Nightmare. Women are the real left. We are rising, powerful in our uncles n bodies; bright glowing mad in our inferior brains, wild hair flying; wild eyes staring, wild voices keening; undaunted by blood, we who hemorrhage every twenty-eight days; laughing at our own beauty we who have lost our sense of humor; mourning for all each precious one of us might have been in this one living time-place had she not been born a woman; stuffing fingers in our mouths for children we couldn't have, or couldn't not have, or didn't want, or didn't want yet, or wanted and had in this place or this time of horror. We are rising with a fury older and potentially greater than any other force in history, and this time we will be free or no one will survive. POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE OR TO NONE. ALL the way down, this time" -Robin Morgan, "Goodbye to All That" 1970
"The point here is that we do not have the luxury of being able to abstract our protests or resistances--we must live in our bodies and our bodies must live in patriarchy, subject to continuing violation, harassment, and contempt. There are no neutral areas--areas in which "sexism" does not matter. In particular, sex, the home, and "romance" and not neutral areas. Nothing is more political to a feminist than fucking..."
"We say, oppression begins where life begins, in the act of fucking, and revolution must begin in the same place, or it has not begun at all" - Andrea Dworkin "Marx and Ghandi Were Liberals--Feminism and the "Radical" Left"
"Goodbye, goodbye forever, counterfeit Left, counterleft, male-dominated cracked-glass mirror reflection of the Amerikan Nightmare. Women are the real left. We are rising, powerful in our uncles n bodies; bright glowing mad in our inferior brains, wild hair flying; wild eyes staring, wild voices keening; undaunted by blood, we who hemorrhage every twenty-eight days; laughing at our own beauty we who have lost our sense of humor; mourning for all each precious one of us might have been in this one living time-place had she not been born a woman; stuffing fingers in our mouths for children we couldn't have, or couldn't not have, or didn't want, or didn't want yet, or wanted and had in this place or this time of horror. We are rising with a fury older and potentially greater than any other force in history, and this time we will be free or no one will survive. POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE OR TO NONE. ALL the way down, this time" -Robin Morgan, "Goodbye to All That" 1970
"The point here is that we do not have the luxury of being able to abstract our protests or resistances--we must live in our bodies and our bodies must live in patriarchy, subject to continuing violation, harassment, and contempt. There are no neutral areas--areas in which "sexism" does not matter. In particular, sex, the home, and "romance" and not neutral areas. Nothing is more political to a feminist than fucking..."
"We say, oppression begins where life begins, in the act of fucking, and revolution must begin in the same place, or it has not begun at all" - Andrea Dworkin "Marx and Ghandi Were Liberals--Feminism and the "Radical" Left"