Girl Boss Feminists: this week was really hard. Patriarchy is so strong! Whatever should we do?
Me: There is literally an entire intellectual record of solutions.
GBF: I don't want anything too hard.
Me: Fuck all of you.
Without sharing the reading list I just emailed to a friend, here's what various feminist writers/thinkers have posited as ways to smash the patriarchy.
IOW, we *have a roadmap.* We don't need to flap our hands and say, Oh noes....the Patriarchy is too bigs!
intersectional collective action.
align feminism with global anti-capitalist movements.
build power through difference, not by flattening it.
abolitionist frameworks as gender liberation
integrate feminist choices into everyday life.
reclaim maternal power while rejecting compulsory roles.
collectivize care; de-privatize parenting
wages for care, refusal of unpaid reproductive labor.
reproductive justice = autonomy + material conditions, not just “choice.”
chosen family as infrastructure.
abolish biological family as destiny; redesign kinship.
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One of the most important ideas drawn from hierarchy in the forest, which is an anthropology book. I read recently about the consensus view of the factors that lead to egalitarianism or hierarchy, the former is built with support networks.
If you want equality for some group, they have to have a support network of some sort that’s economic and social. I think it’s useful to emphasize it to those of us in the US because of the overwhelming over emphasis of individualism.
Diligence Jones
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