Welcome to Litsy!

A thoughtful and challenging review of the process by which the dominant/dominating patriarchal/capitalist structures seek to, and to a large degree have, subsumed radical opposition, incorporating dissenting narratives into the mainstream to perpetuate systems of oppression through liberal feminism, gender-critical 'feminism' and white West-centric feminism. Olufemi centres radical feminist efforts to move global society towards a collective 👇

"Abolition feminism begins at home - it resists the desire to catastrophise ('what do we do with all the murderers?') and realises that murder is not only uncommon in many contexts but is also entirely avoidable."
- "Entirely avoidable" is a big claim to make about murder without any cogent justification for that statement. I want it to be true, but... GIVE ME DETAILS!!!

Fighting the patriarchy one culturally-conditioned assumption at a time... It's a long road getting from here to there.

This book was excellent and full of reminders and food for thought on feminism and it's complexities. Feminism is much more than a commodity or a label. It's work, and it's intersectional.

Just over halfway through the year and this is how my Goodreads challenge is currently shaping up. I have no idea how many books I actually want to aim for now but I'm just going to keep reading books which interest me. My challenge can be viewed at https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/20758308 and please, if you have any recommendations for me then just let me know.

“There is no way to adequately describe what gender is. Every
definition does a disservice to the shifting, multiple and complex
set of power relations that come to shape a person‘s gender.“