过一种女性主义的生活
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kordelia2023-10-13A feminist sometimes refuses to work, when the conditions of working are unjust. A tool can be what she puts down when she is striking.
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kordelia2023-10-13A feminist tool is sharp; we need to keep sharpening our tools. When we speak, we are often heard as sharp. Hear her: shrill, strident, the killjoy voice. A voice can be a tool.
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kordelia2023-10-13Weneed more means available the harder it is to achieve our ends. We need to diversify ourtools, expand our range; we need to become more and more inventive, because so oftenwhen we do one thing, we find ourselves blocked. She has to keep going when she is blocked; she can pick herself up again by picking something else up, maybe something she finds nearby.
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kordelia2023-10-13Think of that: you create a feminist horizon around you, the warmth of memories; feminism as memory making. Feminism too leaves things behind. Things can also be how you handle what you come up against: you are reminded why you are doing what you are doing. Things are reminders.
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kordelia2023-10-13Surround yourself with feminism.
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kordelia2023-10-13You need your favorite feminist books close to hand; your feminist books need to be handy. You need to take them with you; make them with you. Words can pick you up when you are down. And note: it is often books that name the problem that help us handle the problem. Kick-ass feminist books have a special agency, all of their own. I feel propelled by their kick.
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kordelia2023-10-13We reassemble ourselves through the ordinary, everyday, and often painstaking work of looking after ourselves; looking after each other.
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kordelia2023-10-13That position—of living onthe edge—is what is generalized when we speak of precarious populations (see Butler 2015). Living on the edge: a life lived as a fragile thread that keeps unraveling; when life becomes an effort to hold on to what keeps unraveling.
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kordelia2023-10-13When you refer to structures, to systems, topower relations, to walls, you are assumed to be making others responsible for the situation you have failed to get yourself out of. “You should have tried harder.” Oh, the violence and the smugness of this sentence, this sentencing.
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kordelia2023-10-13When a whole world is organized to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. You do not have to be seen as the recipient of welfare because the world has promoted your welfare. The benefits you receive are given as entitlements, perhaps even as birthrights. This is why I describe privilege as a buffer zone; it is how much you have to fall back on when you lose something. Privilege does not mean we are invulnerable: things happen; shit happens. Privilege can however reduce the costs of vulnerability; you are more likely to be looked after.
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kordelia2023-10-13When you are not supposed to live, as you are, where you are, with whom you are with, then survival is a radical action; a refusal not to exist until the very end; a refusal not to exist until you do not exist. We have to work out how to survive in a system that decides life for some requires the death or removal of others. Sometimes: to survive in a system is to survive a system. Some of us have to be inventive, Audre Lorde suggests, to survive.
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kordelia2023-10-13Lorde writes, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare” (1988, 131). This is a revolutionary, extraordinary sentence. It is a much-loved, much-cited sentence. It is an arrow, which acquires its sharpness from its own direction.
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kordelia2023-10-13Survival can be protest.
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kordelia2023-10-13Feminism is a killjoy survival kit.We could think of this feminist survival kit as a form of feminist self-care.
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Le Flaneur2022-04-29To be engaged in the creation of a world for women is to transform what it means to be women. Let me explain what I mean by this by going back to the words. The history of the word woman teaches us how the categories that secure personhood are bound up with a history of ownership: woman is derived from a compound of wif (wife) and man (human being); woman as wife-man also suggesting woman as female servant. The history of woman is impossible to disentangle from the history of wife: the female human not only as in relation to man but as for man (woman as there for, and therefore, being for). We can make sense of Monique Wittig’s (1992) audacious statement, “Lesbians are not women.” She argues that lesbians are not women because “women” is being in relation to men: for Wittig, “women” is a h...
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贝塔伽马Omega2024-01-25一旦你成了女性主义扫兴鬼，我认为唯一的选择就是，变得更像一个女性主义扫兴鬼。成为更像女性主义扫兴鬼的人，并不是说更愿意或更不愿意说出你的反对意见。如果有什么不同的话,那就是在越来越多的扫兴的经历中，做个扫兴者的疲惫感愈发沉重，然后你会从这种难熬的、受挫的经历中明白很多。因为你变得更像一个女性主义扫兴鬼了，所以你可能会更加警惕反对的后果；毕竟，这些后果可能连累别人。你开始担心被耗尽。你知道要投入多少精力：你知道有些战斗不值得你付出精力，因为你就是会不断地遇到同样的事情。同时，或也许是在另一个时刻，你也知道你并不总是能够选择你的战斗；战斗会选择你。有时，你开始认识、一了解的东西感觉似乎是另一堵墙,另一种表示你没什么地方可去的方式。说些什么，还是什么也别说，你不出声地道出了一个未决的问题。
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Le Flaneur2022-03-30When we give an account of something as sexist or racist, we are often dismissed as having a faulty perception, as not receiving the intentions or actions of others fairly or properly. “I didn’t mean anything by it,” he might say. And indeed then by taking something said or done the wrong way, not only are you wrong, but you are understood as committing a wrong against someone else. When you talk about sexism and racism, you are heard as damaging the reputation of an individual or an organization.
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Le Flaneur2022-03-30If you happily deviate from an expectation, your joy becomes a theft of theirs.
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Le Flaneur2022-04-01Jenna, an unhappily married woman, arrives at a doctor’s office and says she is pregnant. The doctor responds sympathetically by offering her his congratulations. His sympathy is not in response to how she does feel (miserable) but rather to how she should feel (happy). She is alienated by his sympathy, even though that sympathy is in accordance with an everyday judgment (that pregnancy for married women is a happy event)... We can be alienated by sympathy when sympathy is given in accordance with an expectation of how we should feel rather than how we do feel.
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Le Flaneur2022-04-02A feminist history is affective: we pick up those feelings that are not supposed to be felt because they get in the way of an expectation of who we are and what life should be. No wonder feminism acquires such a negative charge: being against happiness, being against life. It is not simply that we first become feminists and later become killjoys. Rather, to become feminist is to kill other people’s joy; to get in the way of other people’s investments.