pickYeah, I don‘t. Not anymore!
Clem is a brilliant Australian journalist, feminist and activist. I learn so much from her books and they are very amusing as well.
But the sad reality is that the people who should read these books and gain a new perspective of things never are the ones who do.
#Oznonfiction
Feminism can be experienced as giving life, or as taking one‘s own life back, a life that you might have experienced as what you have given to others, or even what has been taken by other people‘s expectations.
pickI read a few pages and I‘m already in love with it 🥰👏
pickThis book is just 190 pages, but it‘s powerful, and beautifully written. Black women have been telling us to look at the whole picture. We must do it through the lens of Black Feminism. White Feminism has failed us, time and time again. The author breaks down liberation and decolonization, giving us a new way to think about and apply, what she calls ‘Sensuous Knowledge‘. Highly recommended. Link to her website: https://msafropolitan.com/
When it comes to beauty, we need to detach our ideas of beauty from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and racism and redefine beauty from a woman-centered point of view. We need to explore beauty from an active rather than a passive position of womanhood—as subjects and not objects, as directors of the orchestra rather than the instruments to be played. The orchestra might look similar, but the song will sound different.
At some point in life the world‘s beauty becomes enough. You don‘t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don‘t need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens—that letting go—you let go because you can. The world will always be there—while you sleep it will be there—when you wake it will be there as well. So you can sleep and there is reason to awake. —Tony Morrison
Rivers start out as tiny streams at mountaintops. As the streams trickle down, they are met by other small streams and tributaries, together growing larger, and larger until their mutual flow becomes a river. The more the river widens, the more power it has to circumvent the barriers in its way. In this sense, rivers show us that there is high power in collective action. Yet once a river reaches the ocean, it streams separate again, reminding ⬇️
Resistance against racism and sexism is like bench-pressing weights. If you lift only with your right hand, the left weight will collapse on you and vice versa. We need to resist sexism together with those black men who oppose it, and racism with white women who oppose it. Without a sense of political sisterhood, the fight against patriarchy is moot.Acid rain may not kill every single tree in the world, but it is a threat to every single tree on⬇️
