You cannot accuse feminists of appropriating feminism. ESPECIALLY WHEN so much of intersectional feminism appropriated radical feminism.
This shit is childish. Can we not handle this like adults?
You’re right, I can’t accuse feminists of appropriating feminism.
No, really, it’s impossible for me to do so.
Because real actual feminists would not exclude people based on their gender/orientation/race/etc. That is not how feminism works. You cannot uphold the virtues of equality for anyone while also actively participating in discrimination because that would essentially be an act of contradiction.
The only way anyone can take away your feminism is if you throw it away yourself in favor of holding onto the toxic idea that one is more equal than another. That isn’t how equality works.
And yes, I am fully aware that calling people FARTs is silly and childish, but so is thinking basic civil rights are some kind of limited resource that needs to be rationed out.
Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk.
THIS.
And don’t give me that “But this lets other feminists off the hook from examining the transmisogyny in their activism”
Ostracism
is an effective tool that pushes back TERFs impact on feminist spaces and conversations. Which effects the presense of transmisogyny in feminism and actually helps us get to a space where we can clearly address and tackle other forms of transmisogyny in feminist spaces.
“Intersectional feminism appropriated radical feminism”
Did Sojourner Truth appropriate from radical feminism 100 years early in 1851 when she asked “Ain’t I a Woman?” The term “intersectional feminism” didn’t get coined until 1989 but the ideas behind it – namely, black feminism – far predate radical feminism as a movement.
how the hell does one say that intersectional feminism, a framework which demands inclusion of race, class, ability, sexuality, and other axes of oppression in addition to gender analysis in feminist thought precisely because existing frameworks – which yes include radical feminism – excluded the experiences of black women
that it appropriated from radical feminism
with a straight face
like how does that happen
please read or watch literally any Kimberlé Crenshaw
black feminist thinkers created a framework that included them in white feminist theory which ignored the experiences of black women and how their experiences of being black and poor, black and queer, black and disabled, black and elderly, and black and a woman were inherently linked with their blackness and thus fundamentally different from the white experience that was defining feminism
and some white tumblr deep thinkers are calling this “appropriation”
google scholar and your local library are your friends. crenshaw’s work in intersectionality is up all over the internet and on YouTube even so you can find plenty that isn’t behind a paywall.
learn what words mean before you use them.
More truth.
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