Wednesday, February 16, 2011

It's really a lot of work to put stickers on things. I lose the stickers. I can't find a marker.

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.

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