{"id":1383,"date":"2010-04-30T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T13:06:44","slug":"feminist-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"various feminist intersections"},"content":{"rendered":"

some excellent and thought-provoking recent pieces via Bitch Magazine<\/em> blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Feminist Intersection: On hipsters\/hippies and Native culture”<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n

Lately I\u2019ve had my fair share of run-ins with the hipsters and hippies, as well as the hippie\/hipster \u201cculture\u201d at large, and have become increasingly annoyed at their depiction\/co-option of my ethnicity as a First Nations person. […] I know my parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles have had to deal with this in their time and it\u2019s certainly not a new thing \u2013but it\u2019s 2010 and not only does it still continue strongly to this day \u2013 it\u2019s taken some interesting turns down the erasure of true origins road. … <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Adventures in Feministory: Sara Estela Ram\u00edrez”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Called the \u201cmuse of Texas\u201d in her 1910 obituary, Sara Estela Ram\u00edrez was a poet and activist in the politically-charged border town of Laredo, and used her words to inspire workers and women alike.
\nBorn in 1881 in Coahuila, Mexico, she helped raise her younger sister when her mother died early on. They moved to Laredo, Texas in about 1897, where Ram\u00edrez began teaching. Although Laredo had always had a mostly Mexican population (seeing that it was part of Mexico a few decades earlier\u2026that\u2019s another story), when the Mexican revolution began in 1910, its population swelled as more Mexicans left the country seeking refuge and work. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Free Speech. Hate Speech.”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Sex slavery yields around $12 billion a year and harms about 4 million women, girls, and young boys around the world. On April 23, 2010 Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the state’s undocumented immigration law (aka “breathing while brown”). Psychology professor Kevin MacDonald continues to receive attention for promoting anti-Semitic arguments and remains the darling of white supremacist bigots. Between 2006 and 2008, violence toward queer and transgender people increased 26 percent.
\nConnecting these global dots is the fact that hate-speech, hate-motivated violence, and gender-based crime can incite widespread fear, frustration, isolation, and anger, even among those who are not directly victimized. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Autostraddle Roundtable: Becoming Queer Feminists (Part 1)”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Though it\u2019s officially defined as a belief in gender equality, the word \u201cfeminist\u201d seems to mean different things to different people\u2026
\nWho doesn\u2019t believe in equality? Assh*les, that\u2019s who. But tell that to your brother when he wants you to stop pointing out every misogynistic moment in Two a Half Men, or your Mom when she wonders why you\u2019re so angry or Scott Baio, who thinks feminists are all lesbian shitasses.
\nMaybe you get judged for being a feminist, maybe you don\u2019t bring it up with your family, or maybe you\u2019re way past that and you\u2019re introducing feminism to your own children. Or maybe you don\u2019t even identify as a feminist at all.
\n Autostraddle was founded way back in March 2009 in part to push our radical lesbian feminist agenda, obviously.
\nBut for those of us who do, especially those of us also campaigning actively against racism and homophobia in our own lives, we often wonder: What is the purpose of all this shouting and \u201cconsciousness-raising\u201d? How do we turn our anger into activism? How do we make it work? …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Splendid Table Radio: Why are there no famous female chefs?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Writer Charlotte Druckman talks with Lynne about what she sees as the dearth of great female chefs.” Druckman does a great job here talking about the ways in which female chefs are marginalized\/tokenized by the mass media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Raising Trouble: Does Pink Really Stink?”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The merchants of pink would have loved School Picture Day at my son\u2019s preschool: hardly any other color was visible on the little girls. Naturally I was thrilled to learn about an organization called Pink Stinks, a UK-based project \u2013 founded by twin sisters, both mothers of girls — seeking to challenge \u201cthe culture of pink which invades every aspect of girls\u2019 lives.\u201d This group has, among other achievements, successfully pressured Sainsbury\u2019s, a major UK clothing retailer, to stop gender stereotyping in its kids clothing sections. Awesome, obviously. I wish there were more groups like this everywhere.
\nBut I\u2019m curious what we should think of the vilification of pink. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

some excellent and thought-provoking recent pieces via Bitch Magazine blogs: “Feminist Intersection: On hipsters\/hippies and Native culture” Lately I\u2019ve had my fair share of run-ins with the hipsters and hippies, as well as the hippie\/hipster \u201cculture\u201d at large, and have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28,9,22,41,3,23,43,35,27,8,17,26,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-racism","category-body-image","category-critica-sociala","category-economic-justice","category-english","category-feminism","category-grassroots-organizing","category-identity","category-intersectionalities","category-lgbtqi","category-links","category-media","category-sexuality","category-trafic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}