This piece was originally posted on Rabble.ca here http://rabble.ca/news/2011/05/slutwalk-march-or-not-march “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” — Audre Lorde Since April, when thousands marched in a Slutwalk in Toronto in response to a [...]
By Victoria Law My great-grandfather was the type of man who refused to get out of bed unless there was breakfast waiting for him. Since he wouldn’t get out of bed to go and work, there was never any breakfast waiting for him. It was a cycle that did nothing to alleviate the family’s poverty. [...]
I look at their faces, I see reflection and masks that sometimes repeat my own in a strange cyclic pattern of power. Because in here, I am but a wage-slave, condemn sweating and hurting for eight bucks an hour, forced to smile and accept condescend behavior from the all-smiling, ever merry elite of the capital. [...]
By Meera Velayudhan Since the mid-1990s, Dalit women’s groups and platforms have expressed three concerns: impact of state policies, patriarchal bias of Dalit movements, and upper-caste/middle-class leadership of the women’s movement. Since then concerted efforts have been made to highlight these through common actions and other forms of engagement. These have led to wider alliances [...]
By Jo Freeman (1970) During the years in which the women’s liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main form of the movement. The source of this idea was a natural reaction against the overstructured society in which most of us [...]
By Michelle S. Jacobs A woman’s struggle to protect herself from violence in the home is difficult under any circumstance; however, African American women have an added dimension to their struggle. In addition to the gendered nature of violence, they must also contemplate the effect that reporting violence may have on the black community in [...]
By Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Selma James – 1972 Foreword When this book was first published three years ago, it was already clear that the international movement of women had upset basic assumptions on which this society rested. In confronting what happens in the family and on the street, we have had to confront what [...]
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