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As Black people, if there is one thing we can learn from the 60s, it is how infinitely complex any move for liberation must be. For we must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from the outside, but also against those oppressive values which we have been forced to take into ourselves.

Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

sex distinctions?"

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

These women have thoroughly internalized the male gaze, their to-be-looked-at-ness, and arrived at a place of incredible power — as objects. Their struggle, as evidenced by the ample time we spend with those who’ve “retired,” is figuring a sense of self outside of that objecthood.

Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'

“June Jordan was an architect,” or so declares the black feminist writer and blogger Alexis Pauline Gumbs.[1] This declaration involves some political risk on Gumbs’ part, as Jordan is more popularly known as a writer, playwright, and poet. Several rhetorical questions immediately come to mind when one considers the veracity of her claim. Questions... See more

cldavisii • Representing the “Architextural” Musings of June Jordan

Femininity & Media

Cora Jone's Archive!

Jayda Murray • 1 card

The CRC made two key observations in their use of “identity politics.” The first was that oppression on the basis of identity—whether it was racial, gender, class, or sexual orientation identity—was a source of political radicalization. Black women were not radicalizing over abstract issues of doctrine; they were radicalizing because of the ways... See more

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Thus, the inclusion of Black women on their own terms is not a concession to “political correctness” or “identity politics”; it is necessary to validate the particular experiences of Black women in our society while also measuring exactly the levels of oppression, inequality, and exploitation experienced in African American communities

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Modern feminist sensibility is based on cognitive distortions depressed people have

What I once believed thanks to feminism and how it maps to cognitive distortions (yes, these messages are in the zeitgeist)

Others are responsible for my feelings: emotional reasoning and mind-reading.
I have no control over what happens to me: fortune telling,

The Warren Court, though, rejected clear and present danger for a “redeeming social importance” test, a unique burden foisted on no other form of expression. Because liberal notions of normalcy precluded arguments for prurience as itself containing social importance, or for graphic depictions of sexuality as inherently political forms of

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Cheryl Clarke • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

Charlotte Gilman • Herland

Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'

cldavisii • Representing the “Architextural” Musings of June Jordan

Femininity & Media

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Whitney Strub • Perversion for Profit