I advocate Eco-Feminism
I'm Pagan it is true.
"If people understood that partnership in misery does not necessarily provide for partnership for change: When we get the monsters off our backs all of us may want to run in very different directions... I am reaching for the words to describe the difference between a common identity that has been imposed and the individual identity any one of us will choose, once she gains that chance.
That difference is the one that keeps us stupid in the face of new, specific information about somebody else with whom we are supposed to have a connection because a third party, hostile to both of us, has worked it so that the two od us, like it or not, share a common enemy. What happens beyond the idea of that enemy and beyond the consequences of that enemy?
...The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is not only who you are, in other words, but what we can do for each other that will determine the connection." (444)
-Unity over difference. Difference isn't just going to go away and in not acknowledging difference there is the questions of what else is one not going to acknowledge? What blindness do we set upon ourselves that the Patriarchal system has ingrained in our way of thinking? Or what systems are we going to build down? I feel like Women are awesome at bickering and at the same time getting along. But bickering to better oneself to make one's self heard, seems totally rediculous. I once learned that women work on a dead-even power structure, so why does it seem like feminists are fighting on whose got the better ideas, differences, problems? Why are we competing for a voice within ourselves?
"it has gotten trapped in a place where it cannot fulfill its own life. i could open the jar of honey on the kitchen counter and perhaps it would take the honey from that jar; but its life process, its work, its mode of being cannot be fulfilled inside this house." (447)
"Theory--the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees--theory can be a dew that rises from the earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to the earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for the earth." (449)
"always' blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?" (449)
"The problem was that we did not know whom we meant when we said "we." (451)
"A movement for change lives in feelings, actions, and words...Yet how, except through ourselves, do we discover what moves other people to change? Our old fears and denials--what helps us let go of them? What makes us decide we have to re-educate ourselves, even those of us with "good" educations? A politicized life ought to sharpen both eh senses and the memory." (454)
"The difficulty in saying I... But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying "we"? You cannot speak for me. o cannot speak for us. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say "I"; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through." (454)
"The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying in so many different voices, language, gestures, and actions: It must change; we ourselves can change it.
We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same." (455)
-This reading rocked me. I loved it. What is we? change. World unity? I wonder about the last part of this above quote: "We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same." This is true to an extent but what about the equality of all women and men. What about the same type of opportunities? I wonder if this is a counter-productive statement. It seems so but is correct in stating that no one wants to be the same. What do we similarly want? what I want:
I want love
Balance
Freedom
Choice
Individuality
Unity....
- Jordan, June (1985). "Report from the Bahamas." In Carole R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim (eds.) Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge.438-446.
"If people understood that partnership in misery does not necessarily provide for partnership for change: When we get the monsters off our backs all of us may want to run in very different directions... I am reaching for the words to describe the difference between a common identity that has been imposed and the individual identity any one of us will choose, once she gains that chance.
That difference is the one that keeps us stupid in the face of new, specific information about somebody else with whom we are supposed to have a connection because a third party, hostile to both of us, has worked it so that the two od us, like it or not, share a common enemy. What happens beyond the idea of that enemy and beyond the consequences of that enemy?
...The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us. It is not only who you are, in other words, but what we can do for each other that will determine the connection." (444)
-Unity over difference. Difference isn't just going to go away and in not acknowledging difference there is the questions of what else is one not going to acknowledge? What blindness do we set upon ourselves that the Patriarchal system has ingrained in our way of thinking? Or what systems are we going to build down? I feel like Women are awesome at bickering and at the same time getting along. But bickering to better oneself to make one's self heard, seems totally rediculous. I once learned that women work on a dead-even power structure, so why does it seem like feminists are fighting on whose got the better ideas, differences, problems? Why are we competing for a voice within ourselves?
- Rich, Adrienne (2001). "Notes toward a Politics of Location." In Carol R. McCann and Seung-Kyung Kim (eds.) feminisdt Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge. 447-459.
"it has gotten trapped in a place where it cannot fulfill its own life. i could open the jar of honey on the kitchen counter and perhaps it would take the honey from that jar; but its life process, its work, its mode of being cannot be fulfilled inside this house." (447)
"Theory--the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees--theory can be a dew that rises from the earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to the earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for the earth." (449)
"always' blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?" (449)
"The problem was that we did not know whom we meant when we said "we." (451)
"A movement for change lives in feelings, actions, and words...Yet how, except through ourselves, do we discover what moves other people to change? Our old fears and denials--what helps us let go of them? What makes us decide we have to re-educate ourselves, even those of us with "good" educations? A politicized life ought to sharpen both eh senses and the memory." (454)
"The difficulty in saying I... But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying "we"? You cannot speak for me. o cannot speak for us. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say "I"; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through." (454)
"The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying in so many different voices, language, gestures, and actions: It must change; we ourselves can change it.
We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same." (455)
-This reading rocked me. I loved it. What is we? change. World unity? I wonder about the last part of this above quote: "We who are not the same. We who are many and do not want to be the same." This is true to an extent but what about the equality of all women and men. What about the same type of opportunities? I wonder if this is a counter-productive statement. It seems so but is correct in stating that no one wants to be the same. What do we similarly want? what I want:
I want love
Balance
Freedom
Choice
Individuality
Unity....