For some reason, it always hits a nerve when a female coeval says she is not a feminist.
“Why do we need feminism?/Aren’t we all equal now?/I have never experienced sexism, what’s the big deal?/I don’t identify with those bra burning feminists!/It’s for white affluent women, it’s not for me/The girls I know who are feminists [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘History’
February 28, 2009
The Black List Project Continued. . .
Filed under Art, Current Affairs, News, Opinion
Tags: Albany, Angela Davis, Art, Audre Lorde, Barack Obama, bell hooks, Berkeley, Black History Month, Center for the Advancement of Women, El Cerrito, equality, Faye Wattleton, feminism, herstory, History, lesbian, lesbianism, Los Encuentros, Manifesta, Marin County, Medical Apartheid, Patrica Hill Collins, photography, politics, race, Rigoberta Menchu, San Domenico Upper School, sexism, social movements, The Birthing Project, women, Women's History Month, women's liberation movement
February 26, 2009
Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. While everyone except NASA (Yes, their YouTube channel has profiles of Black people this month?!), Jeopardy! and Attorney General Holder pretended Black History Month no longer exists because we elected our first African-American President, I will blog ad nauseum about Women’s History Month. So, to start this off with [...]
Filed under Current Affairs, News, politics
Tags: Barbara Lee, History, History/Herstory, politics