Feminism/Womanism

[chreebomb]

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

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[delphyne_]

There's an interesting interview here with Alice Walker who coined the term "womanism". She calls herself both a feminist and a womanist.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_41_sat_01.shtml

[crafting_change]

Persons there said that just as they don't want to
join our organizations, they don't want us to join
theirs either. They think that if we really care about
justice to people of color, we should work within our
own white-majority organizations to change the
entrenched racism, not run to join theirs.

The whole thing was awesome, but this really struck home...about the work that needs to be done in the big groups that are white-centric, and what many of us can do to broaden our view.

[chreebomb]

yes!

i loved it because it answered the question i've been asked about why nonwhite groups don't "join" white groups and my own semi-question as to why i don't identify as a womanist even though practically all my feminist theory comes from womanists/nonwhite feminists. it was like an "A HA!" moment. it put it all into context.

[crafting_change]

fabulousness!

[chreebomb]

social work! awesome!

:)

[chreebomb]

i can imagine. i admire you for working in social work. not easy and quite thankless.

&hearts

[the_living_end]

you are so full of good information. you are doing an ASSLOAD of work here these past few days. i, for one, truly appreciate it.

[chreebomb]

*speechless*

*and touched*

[jfpbookworm]

Seems to me it's basically the same response as "why don't feminist groups just merge with more general progressive groups?"

[chreebomb]

good observation.