“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender” -Alice Walker
Womanism is a feminist term coined by Alice Walker. It is a reaction to the realization that “feminism” does not encompass the perspectives Black women. It is a feminism that is “stronger in color”, nearly identical to “Black Feminism”. However, Womanism does not need to [...]
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Womanism
Posted in Alice Walker, black feminism, feminism, oppression, race, sexuality, womanism on July 17, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Hierarchy
Posted in gender, hierarchy, race on July 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A ranking system that organizes itself based on arbitrary values. Hierarchies posit one kind of thing at the “top” of the system and have a set list of gradations that end at a “bottom” point. What is at the “top” is generally what has the most power and that which is at the “bottom” has [...]
Default
Posted in Object, Other, Subject, binary, feminism, male, male privilege, normality, norms, race, sexuality, supremacy, white on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Default (de·fault – [di-fawlt]) n.
A term used to denote normality and neutrality and identify adherents to it. Similar to what one might find as the ‘defaults’ on her computer (Times New Roman type font, the same homepage for internet access, the vertical letter format for printing documents in a printer), the Default is the constant [...]
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