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10 Books To Make Your Feminism More Intersectional

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PrincessPlummy · 13/03/2019 12:36

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/books-to-make-your-feminism-more-intersectional_uk_5c62ec75e4b00ba63e4ae20b?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000001

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Bowlofbabelfish · 13/03/2019 16:32

Intersectionality was supposed to examine how types of women were doubly disadvantaged by for example, being poor, or black.

It does not provide any justification for centering men in feminism.

Lemoncakestrudel · 13/03/2019 16:25

bowl because men?

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 13/03/2019 15:58

she may well be all those things. Saying 'I don't do capitals' is tiresome and detracts from whatever message she wants to convey.

pigsknickers · 13/03/2019 15:57

She's an African-American radical feminist from the south, she pretty much sums up what "intersectional" was coined to mean. Her writing is incredibly powerful. Your sneering makes you look a bit ignorant tbh.

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 13/03/2019 15:41

saying 'I don't do capitals' is enormously tiresome.

pigsknickers · 13/03/2019 15:40

bell hooks is well worth looking up, I certainly don't find her tiresome.

Katvonfelttipeyebrows · 13/03/2019 15:33

How I lowered the cotton ceiling. A selection of poems centering penis.

Bowlofbabelfish · 13/03/2019 14:15

Can you explain why my feminism needs to centre men, please?

morningtoncrescent62 · 13/03/2019 14:01

Can't think how they left out Woke by Titania McGrath.

hellandhairnets · 13/03/2019 13:59

Yawn.

Pathetic.

It would be good if people actually bothered learning what "intersectional" - as Kimberley Crenshaw saw it - is actually about.

Clue: It isn't neoliberal or about sparkles. It also doesn't mean "put women and girls below trans women in the hierarchy of oppression at all times." It doesn't mean "all women must agree that they have lady-brain or they are all evil bigots." And it has nothing to do with inclusion.

WeepingWillowWeepingWino · 13/03/2019 13:56

who is this tiresome non-capitalizing person at the end?

They're not all about trans, are they? The first one is but none of the rest?

ColeHawlins · 13/03/2019 13:54
Angry
Lemoncakestrudel · 13/03/2019 13:53

Is feminism not inclusive of women enough? Why do we have to include men other people?

terryleather · 13/03/2019 13:31

Centering The Lady Cock: How to Make Your Feminism More Intersectional

EcclesThePeacock · 13/03/2019 13:30

The link won't open for me.
Am I right in supposing I'm not missing much?

OVAgroundWOMBlingfree · 13/03/2019 13:23

I’m genuinely surprised that they were all books regards Transwomen.

OldCrone · 13/03/2019 13:21

No 1: ‘To My Trans Sisters’ – Edited by Charlie Craggs