Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Outspoken by Pluto)

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Lola Olufemi è incisiva, tagliente quando è necessario, riporta fonti ed esempi senza mai scadere nella saccenza. Feminism Interrupted seeks to highlight to the reader that feminism is not about our individual selves as women and what we think should be done about certain issues. It sounds divisive (and has been accused of being so), but look closer and it’s obvious what Kendall and others mean when they identify cliques and exclusivity among white feminists. The struggle for freedom is too difficult to depart on alone, and we share the struggle with women all over the world”. Membuat hal-hal tampak "mudah" padahal bagi kulit berwarna dan bukan ras kaukasian seperti Sandberg punya kesulitan dan hambatannya sendiri.

Perhaps the most powerful thing that can be done is sabotaging the law-making project and refusing to concede that abortion is unlawful. This succinct guide to feminism is a refreshing antidote to the capitalist libertarian "Lean In" brand of feminism and, together with Dawn Foster's excellent Lean Out, I would highly recommend it. Olufemi takes her feminism so seriously that sometimes it compromises her authorial tone, rendering it drily determined; her work sometimes reads like a military pamphlet. Feminism Interrupted is a thought-provoking and insightful exploration into a variety of issues such as racism, transphobia, Islamaphobia, sex work, consent, reproductive justice and more.The vigorous debates in and around feminism and feminist praxis since the later 2000s have produced some of the most challenging political engagements with contemporary social and cultural life; in this they are paralleled by the more recent growing trends in anti-racist activism and action and by the growth of decolonial praxis in the same period. Nonostante non mi sia trovata sempre d'accordo su tutto, mi ha aperto gli occhi su tante cose e sono felice di averlo letto, anche perché di testi del genere non ce ne saranno mai abbastanza. Ostatnio takie wrażenie zrobiła na mnie bell hooks, jeżeli chodzi o zmuszanie mnie do myślenia i naprowadzanie mnie na nowe ścieżki skojarzeń.

Olufemi argues that mainstream feminism is too often obsessed by personal choices: she refers, as others have, to the mind-numbing genre of articles that pose the question: “Can you be a feminist and … ? She exposes the yawning chasm between what constitutes mainstream feminist activism and the urgent needs of women of colour in maternity wards, single-mother households, abusive homes, hungry families – and those of disfranchised trans people and sex workers. I would love it if it went even deeper, but at 143 pages she does an amazing job of cramming so much information in and explaining things in a really accessible way. Oczywiście jest też bibliografia, więc można tę książkę potraktować jako wstęp do dogłębniejszych studiów i przemyśleń w tematach feminizmu.

Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen ‘Kendall exposes the yawning chasm between what constitutes mainstream feminist activism, and the urgent needs of women of colour. Melalui feminisme, seharusnya kita dapat melihat gender dan jenis kelamin sebagai sesuatu yang fluid. But she makes up for it in optimism, looking ahead to a feminism that includes the experiences of all women. Kendall exposes the yawning chasm between what constitutes mainstream feminist activism, and the urgent needs of women of colour. I don’t see how it’s not contradictory to advocate for dismantling oppressive systems and then promote Marxist theory in the exact same breath, but whatever.