I'll start sticking stickers again soon, but in the meantime, does someone want to explain to me why we never talk about sexism as a civil rights issue? Or maybe you do--but I don't. When I google "sexism as a civil rights issue," I get mostly A) results about sexism within the civil rights movement, and B) some discussions of the intersection of race and gender from the perspectives of black women.
That's not enough. This is part of the reason discussions of gender get marginalized as belonging to "feminists." Maybe if we start conceptualizing discrimination based on gender as a civil rights issue, we'll be more prone to tie issues of gender to issues of race and class and their respective struggles and triumphs.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The sort of misguided talk everyone's posting on facebook.
I'm not going to lie, this talk sort of freaks me out. But then again, what doesn't freak me out? Certainly not business clothes, business speak, conferences, or watching a clip on facebook of a facebook executive talking about her experiences at facebook.
Anywaysssss,
1. Focusing on what individual women should do differently as a means of engendering structural change: bad idea.
2. Interestingly ambivalent to start this talk admitting to and asking the female audience to admit to "luck" before going on to say that women have got to learn to stop attributing their success to external factors, as is making clear you don't want to assign blame to women and then going on to tell them they've got to stop being distracted by thoughts of marriage and children.
1 & 2: Related.
That is all.
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