Comments on: my understanding of a radical woc feminism

by: Keira

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:43:00 +0000

Hmm, I like the term WOC feminism. I assume it’s similar to womanism, which is a term that many black women prefer over feminism.

Nevertheless, one of the reasons why I initially avoided LGBT organizations is because of the prevalence of white females who only see oppression through their unique experiences as white women in America

As with many sensitive issues in life, you must first approach an issue with an open-mind and be prepared to overcome your own internalized prejudice. However, you rarely find people who are willing to seriously deconstruct their unconscious views of other social groups.

by: Anonymous

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:51:00 +0000

so what can a white girl do to not be the ‘annoying white chic’ who feels the unbearable shame of being a white person in this world where so many injustices have been done/are being done to not only women of color, but people of color BY white people? i don’t think i ever step on anyone’s toes, but reading what some of you have to say, it looks like i could be doing it without even realizing.

by: burgess

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:53:00 +0000

hola la mala:

quiero decir that i feel the same way about white feminists. i’m sorry–may be not–some of those women are so fucking blind, so fucking holier than thou, and so fucking willing to judge because another woman doesn’t fit in their safe, middle-class construct of liberal feminism. White feminists use women of color ALL the time to hide their racism, their internalized sexism, their homo/transphobia–the list is long. Because one quotes Lorde, Morraga, Mohanty, or Williams, they couldn’t possibly be racist or classist, to name a few.

by: Blackamazon

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:15:00 +0000

First *applause* . I also think WOC feminism adresses issues of class dialogue that white feminism avoids entirely. Too often it discussions are centered on upper class women ,their offspring and desires. Identity is forefront in WOC feminism and with comes an absolute necessity of orienting the writer or exminer in text and contect. RWOC feminism is much more aware of privilege and access in all it’s forms because it constantly confronts and is confronted. Too often in non WOC feminism their is a lone voice of a women of color (my recent Bitch magazine) about the lack of women of color. In RWOC feminism I appreciate the affirmation and examination of life that niether begins or ends solely with in the gaze of white culture or desire of mainstream identity.

by: la Mala

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:14:00 +0000

Carajo mujer, good, deep heavy food for thought. Currently I struggle with the word feminists mostly because of the fact that many of the white women who fall under that catagory are suspect of me as a feminist because of choices I have made and/or because I have been “used” by white feminists.

::thinking::

by: Alii

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:43:00 +0000

hmm you seem to have gotten all your work done very quickly

some hiatus

lol