A View From Somewhere
There are no correct perceptions. There are no impartial truths. But understanding can come from gathering the perspectives of "more eyes, different eyes."
Women display their hands which are painted red, symbolizing bloodshed, and blue, symbolizing peace, during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa 28 September, 2011. (Photo: REUTERS - Mohamed al-Sayaghi) (x)
…still I must speak just the word that seemed to me the word to be spoken by me.
Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
![A controversial reclamation of the word “slut.”
The protests began after a police officer told students at Toronto’s York University in January that if women want to avoid rape, they shouldn’t dress like “sluts.” …As one Toronto SlutWalk sign put it: “Don’t tell us how to dress. Tell men not to rape.
- Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com
Valenti talks more about it here. An account of Slut Walk Minneapolis can be found here.
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A controversial reclamation of the word “slut.”
The protests began after a police officer told students at Toronto’s York University in January that if women want to avoid rape, they shouldn’t dress like “sluts.” …As one Toronto SlutWalk sign put it: “Don’t tell us how to dress. Tell men not to rape.
- Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com
Valenti talks more about it here. An account of Slut Walk Minneapolis can be found here.
——————————————-21240348881033698535Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 8573515 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=”post[three]” http://rhetoricqueline.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/slut-walk-minneapolis/Today is the 300th birthday of Jupiter Hammon, the first published African-American writer in the United States. He was born into slavery on Long Island, New York, in 1711, was educated in the household with the slave owner’s children, served as the family’s bookkeeper, and was also a preacher to his fellow slaves. His first publication was an 88-line broadside poem called “An Evening’s Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries.” He wrote it on Christmas Day 1760, and it was published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1761; he published four or five other pieces over the next 27 years, including “A Winter Piece” and “Address to the Negroes of the State of New-York.”
A devout Christian, he stuck to religious themes in his work, and wrote, “If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.” He also wrote, “If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.”
"Dr Pepper commercial reinforcing gender roles.
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Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Finding Black sex & love images that don’t exoticize blackness is fucking DIFFICULT on tumblr, and that’s lame.
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I am a black, Muslim woman who proudly wears her hijab because I make the decision to wear it. I have been a life-long feminist and frequently attend feminist meetings at the local college campus. Every time a new member attends, I am forced to explain why I wear my hijab. I have been told that I am letting myself be oppressed and have even had a woman try to rip it off of me before.
I do not believe that my hijab oppresses me. I believe that it frees me. I am free to make my own decisions about wearing it in this country. Why is that so difficult for women in America to understand?
