[Wamvan] Race and Feminism-->recommended NPR series

[jana g]

Thanks a lot Heather for posting the link above!
very insightful and informative article along with the comments.


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Heather <heather at heatherwritesstuff.com>wrote:

> A friend of mine, who happens to be a local Vancouverite, has been doing
> some really powerful writing on intersectional feminism for a new feminist
> website called The Toast. Her work has been picked up by other blogs like
> Slate's double x and inspired quite a bit of debate.
>
> I highly recommend this piece on so-called allies of women of colour in
> the feminist movement post-Trayvon.
>
> http://the-toast.net/2013/07/24/ally-phobia-the-worst-of-best-intentions/
>
> Sent from my iPhone 6.
>
> On 2013-08-24, at 6:10 AM, Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Any thoughts on the Hugo Schwyzer Twitter meltdown and the subsequent
> debate? Do blogs like Jezebel marginalize feminist women of colour? Are any
> Canadian alt media guilty of that as well?
>
> This NPR series might be worth following:
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/08/22/214525023/twitter-sparks-a-serious-discussion-about-race-and-feminism
>
> Twitter Sparks A Serious Discussion About Race And Feminism
>
> Twitter isn't always the best place for big, thorny philosophical
> conversations. But it's a great forum for catharsis and taking the
> temperature of a popular sentiment. Sometimes, rarely, it's actually both.
>
> If you were on Twitter last week, you may have seen a lot of rallying
> around the satirical but serious hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen<https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23solidarityisforwhitewomen>(which
> itself spawned another trending hashtag #blackpowerisforblackmen<https://twitter.com/search?q=blackpowerisforblackmen&src=typd>).
> It was an unlikely trending topic, but it served as a high-profile digital
> example of one of feminism's most enduring internecine tensions — how or
> whether to make space in the world of feminism for people who aren't white
> (or upper middle class or straight or able-bodied).
>
> The hashtag was started by the blogger Mikki Kendall, but the proximate
> cause of the hullabaloo was the digital self-immolation of Hugo Schwyzer, a
> self-identified "male feminist" and one of the most polarizing figures in
> the feminist blogosphere.1 (BuzzFeed has a rundown of Schwyzer's Twitter
> meltdown here<http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/why-did-controversial-feminist-hugo-schwyzer-have-a-twitter>.)
> Several women of color have long complained that Schwyzer publicly went
> after them for criticizing him and his writing — something Schwyzer
> copped to during his Twitter rant<https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer/statuses/365910268473114625> —
> and yet despite this, he had long remained a contributor in good standing
> at influential feminist-inclined sites like the hugely popular Jezebel<http://jezebel.com/tag/hugo-schwyzer>.
> (Notably, most of those sites being criticized for publishing Schwyzer are
> run and largely frequented by white women.) A lot of people tweeting
> #solidarityisforwhitewomen felt that those sites and their proprietors had
> granted Schwyzer the platform to snipe at and undermine women of color
> while bestowing upon him undeserved feminist street cred. And now that
> Schwyzer was basically admitting that all of those complaints about him
> were true, they wondered why those same digital feminists who'd helped
> Schwyzer's ascendancy weren't denouncing him or locking arms with feminists
> of color. In their eyes, it was emblematic of the same myopic application
> of feminism.
>
> "Admittedly, this isn't a new problem: white feminism has argued that
> gender <http://www.theguardian.com/world/gender>should trump race since
> its inception," Kendall wrote at The Guardian<http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/solidarityisforwhitewomen-hashtag-feminism>.
> "That rhetoric not only erases the experiences of women of color, but also
> alienates many from a movement that claims to want equality for all. This
> is especially clear when posts and articles about racism in feminism from
> five years ago involve some of the very same players."
>
> We wanted to go longer than Twitter can allow on the issue of race in
> digital feminist spaces. So we asked several women who actively live, think
> and write in the feminist blogosphere to expound on
> #solidarityisforwhitewomen and what, if anything, happens next. We'll be
> hearing from them over the next several days. First up is the writer Roxane
> Gay. — *Gene Demby*
> ......
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/08/22/214525023/twitter-sparks-a-serious-discussion-about-race-and-feminism
>
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