Feminism For Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
“[W]e’re not really equal when we’re STILL supposed to uncritically and obediently cheer when white women are praised for winning “women’s rights,” and to painfully forget the Indigenous women and women of colour who were hurt in that same process. We are not equal when in the name of “feminism” so-called “women’s only” spaces are created and get to police and regulate who is and isn’t a woman based on their interpretation of your body parts and gender presentation, and not your own. We are not equal when initatives to support gender equality have reverted yet again to “saving” people and making decisions for them, rather than supporting their right to self-determination, whether it’s engaging in sex work or wearing a niqab. So when feminism itself has become it’s own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? ” […] - Jessica Yee, Introduction
Anything from this book is auto reblog for me
OMG THIS THIS THIS THIS.
Jessica Yee knows whats up. I think I’ve posted some stuff by hir before but I pretty much can’t help but reblog hir.
