A wonderful list of links indicating the true diversity of the feminist blogosphere, provided by Mandolin at Alas, A Blog. This blog and its predecessor get a couple of those links, for which I am grateful. And I’ve got some reading to do!
It concludes:
Feminism is for lawyers (lots and lots of lawyers), writers (lots and lots of them too), scientists, engineers, recording artists, professors, students, stay at home parents, veterans, ballerinas, and veterans who are also ballerinas. Feminists live on government assistance. They are poor, and middle class, and the kind of people who know the difference between OKOP and NOKOP.
Feminism is not about reaffirming every part of your identity, or of mine. Feminism is not about burning these things away, either. Privilege exists within discourses of feminism, but that does not invalidate the privileged or the underprivileged’s claim to feminism.
Feminism is not what I believe. Feminism is not what you believe. Feminism is Feminisms, many and varied.
If you want the links, visit the post.
um…what’s OKOP and NOKOP?
Check the link! It’s from a long post I wrote about “our kind of people” nad “not our kind of people”: http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/06/02/okop-nokop-and-oscar-a-long-post-about-class-family-and-pride/
Thanks for the link!