READ IT ALL. 1. Being a woman, and being a woman of color, and being a Muslim, I choose to not be a feminist or in any way have the term feminist applied to my person, my choices, my thoughts, my writings or my art. I reserve the right to self-identify as I see fit and to define myself in relation to my culture and my ideals. I do not wish to take
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For me though, Feminism will always be the right word. I think good work has been done in it's name, and will continue to be done. And there are enough branches of Feminism that it's not a rigid title. But then, I am one of the women she's talking about and I have privileges with that. I do support less "mainstream" (to pick up the words from the last similar post) and I don't think that we should only focus on things we all (apparently) share because some people are disproportionately affected.
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etc etc etc
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I also want that burger.
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I wanted to go see Angela Davis but I couldn't for some reason.
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I strongly disagree with:
c. I do not feel the need to make myself a part of something where I am not wanted. It is my personal belief that women of color trying to stuff ourselves into the feminist movement does us an injustice. We do not need to broaden the acceptance of our experience into formal feminist theory. We do not need to make feminism “our own”. We can create our own revolutions, not jump on the bandwagon of that of another and then cry when we are pushed off.First of all, I'm not going to tell any women who thinks like her that she's doing herself an injustice so I'd appreciate it if a) she wouldn't put all WOC in a box and b) told me that I'm doing myself an injustice. I understand that a lot of these women are white privileged middle class able bodied etc ( ... )
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Oh btw you're on wiwt2 right? I see you comment there I think~
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and yes ma'am! i'm a temp mod over there too
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