Scholarly Thoughts

mylifeasafeminista:

This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted.  I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me.  Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list.  Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them.  Thanks and enjoy!

Books

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
• Women Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
• Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
• Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
• Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales
• Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
• Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
• Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Feminist Constructions) by Maria Lugones (submitted by oceanicheart)
• Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism by Jessica Yee (submitted by oceanicheart)
• Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks (via easternjenitentiary)
• Nervous Conditions by Tsisti Dangarembga (via easternjenitentiary)
• A Taste of Power by Elaine Browne (via tinajenny)
• Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (via jalwhite)
• I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle  (via jalwhite)
• Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics by Joy James (via jalwhite)
• Re-Creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (via reallifedocumentarian)
• Chicana Feminist Thought by Alma M. Garcia (via eggplantavenger)
• Queer Latinidad by Juana Maria Rodriguez (via eggplantavenger)
• The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith (via sisteroutsider)
• Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones (via guckfender)
• Consequence: Beyond Resisting Rape by Loolwa Khazzoom (via galesofnovember)
• The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (via wherethewildthingsmoved)

Anthologies

• Companeras: Latina Lesbians by Juanita Ramos and the Lesbian History Project
• Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernandez
• This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
• this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating
• Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critial Perspectives by Feminists of Color edited by Gloria Anzaldua
• Women Writing Resistance: Essays from Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
• Unequal Sisters edited by Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz
• Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings edited by Alma M. Garcia (submitted by oceanicheart)
•  Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (submitted by oceanicheart)
• The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology
• I Am Your SIster by Audre Lorde (via marlahangup)
• Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman (via jalwhite)
• Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire edited by Sonia Shah (via jalwhite)
• Pinay Power: Feminist Critical Theory: Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience edited by Melinda L. de Jesus (via titotibok)
• Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire edited by Sonia Shah (via titotibok)
• MOONROOT: An Exploration of Asian Womyn’s Bodies (more Asian Pacific Islander American ones here) (via titotibok)
• Making Space for Indigenous Feminism edited by Joyce Green via jalwhite)
• All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave: Black Women’s Studies, more commonly known as But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scot, and Barbara Smith (via jalwhite)
• Homegirls: A Black Feminist Anthology edited by Barbara Smith (viasisteroutsider)
• Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women edited by Stanlie James and Abena Busia (via sisteroutsider)
• Black Woman edited by Toni Cade Bambara (via ancestryinprogress)

Essays

• “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” by Kimberle Crenshaw
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out” by Christine T. Lipat and others (via titotibok)
• “Rizal Day Queen Contests, Filipino Nationalism, and Feminity” by  Arleen  De Vera (via titotibok)
• “Pinayism” by Allyson G. Tintiangco-Cubales (via titotibok)
• “Practicing Pinayist Pedagogy” by Allyson G. Tintiangco-Cubales and Jocyl Sacramento (via titotibok)
• “Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggle to Create a Safe Space, 1970s – 1980s” by Trinity Ordona (via titotibok)
• “A Black Separatist” by Anna Lee (via girlsandgifs)
• “For the Love of Separatism” by Anna Lee (via girlsandgifs)
• “Separation in Black: A Personal Journey” by Jacqueline Anderson (via girlsandgifs)
• “Separatism is not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on Separatism and Class” by C. Maria (via girlsandgifs)
• “Coming Out Queer and Brown” by Naomi Littlebear Morena (via girlsandgifs)
• “Internalising the Lesbian Body of Color” by Jamie Lee Evans (via girlsandgifs)
• “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden” by Alice Walker (via wherethewildthingsmoved)

Other authors and poets you should know

• Maya Angelou
• Toni Morrison
• Alice Walker
• Nawaal El Sadaawi
• Mary Crow Dog
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Arundhati Roy
• Zadie Smith
• Dorothy Roberts
• Nikki Giovanni(submitted by my bff maskofmaterials)
• Lucille Clifton (submitted by my bff maskofmaterials)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (submitted by soemily)
• Octavia Butler (submitted by soemily)
• Nalo Hopkison (submitted by soemily)
• Trinh T. Minh-Ha (via eggplantavenger)
• Ananya Roy (via eggplantavenger)
• Paola Bacchetta (via eggplantavenger)
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (via pitcherplant)
• Andrea Smith (via crankyindian)
• Ashley Love (via guckfender)
• Linda Martin Alcoff (via guckfender)
• Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí (via guckfender)
• Staceyann Chin (via guckfender)

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whatshouldwecallgradschool:

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Living your life like, I’m either finally doing really well, or I’m actually manic and all these great ideas and energy are actually a bunch of nonsense.

So I’ve been doing this thing lately where I cry about how much I needed Bikini Kill (along with other feminist bands here Bikini Kill is kinda filling in for a general void) when I was younger but didn’t have Bikini Kill b/c I just didn’t know/didn’t know how much I needed it.

And then my bf is like well I listened to Bikini Kill, and I’m like well at least I still benefited in some indirect way from a teenager listening to Bikini Kill and talking about Bikini Kill. Because he is that rare guy that really takes shit like rape and sexual assault very seriously and actively works to understand/not abuse his male privilege.

robertreich:

Among the current crop of candidates for president of the United States, who exhibits leadership and who doesn’t?

Leadership isn’t just the ability to attract followers. Otherwise some of the worst tyrants in history would be considered great leaders. They weren’t leaders; they were demagogues. There’s a difference.

A leader brings out the best in his followers. A demagogue brings out the worst. 

Leaders inspire tolerance. Demagogues incite hate.

Leaders empower the powerless; they give them voice and respect Demagogues scapegoat the powerless; they use scapegoating as a means to fortify their power.

Leaders calm peoples’ irrational fears. Demagogues exploit them.

My list of great American leaders would include Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

All inspired the best in their followers. All fought for the weak and powerless. All conveyed a forceful moral vision of tolerance, forgiveness, and humility.

In his second inaugural address near the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln urged his followers to act with “malice toward none, with charity for all.”

In his first inaugural at the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt told Americans the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts.”

In 1963, as African-Americans demanded their civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. urged his followers “not to seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

My list of American demagogues would include Senator “Pitchfork” Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, who supported lynch mobs in the 1890s; Father Charles Coughlin, whose antisemitic radio rants in the 1930s praised Nazi Germany; Senator Joseph McCarthy, who conducted the communist witch hunts of the 1950s; and Governor George C. Wallace, the staunch defender of segregation.

These men inspired the worst in their followers. They scapegoated the weak and set Americans against each other. They used fear to stoke hate and thereby entrench their power.

Back to the current crop of Presidential candidates: Who are the leaders, and who are the demagogues?

The leaders have sought to build bridges with those holding different views.

Rand Paul spoke at Berkeley, for example, seeking common ground with the university’s mostly-progressive students.

Bernie Sanders traveled to Liberty University where most students and faculty disagree with his positions on gay marriage and abortion. “I came here today,” he said, “because I believe from the bottom of my heart that it is vitally important for those of us who hold different views to be able to engage in a civil discourse.”

The demagogues, by contrast, have fueled division. Ben Carson has said being gay is a choice. “A lot of people who go into prison straight and when they come out they’re gay,” he says, “so did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”

Carson has also argued that Muslims should not be allowed to become President. I “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”

Donald Trump, meanwhile, has charged that Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

Trump has lashed out at those who he charges come to America to give birth, so that their children will be, in his term, “anchor babies” – arguing that “we have to start a process where we take back our country. Our country is going to hell.”

And after one of his followers charged that Muslims “have training camps growing where they want to kill us,” and asked Trump “when can we get rid of them?” Trump didn’t demur. He said “a lot of people are saying that” and “we’re going to be looking at that.”

Nor has Trump inspired the best in his followers.

At one recent rally, after Trump denigrated undocumented workers, his supporters shoved and spit on immigrant activists who had shown up to protest. At other Trump rallies his followers have shouted at Latino U.S. citizens to “go home” and yelled “if it ain’t white, it ain’t right.” 

Trump followers have told immigrant activists to “clean my hotel room, bitch” and demanded that reputed journalist and U.S. citizen Jorge Ramos “get out of my country.” They’ve beaten up and urinated on the homeless, and and joked “you can shoot all the people you want that cross illegally.”

America is the only democracy in the world where anyone can declare himself or herself a candidate for the presidency – and, armed with enough money, possibly even win. 

Which makes it all the more important that we distinguish leaders from demagogues.

The former ennoble our society. The latter degrade and endanger it – even if they lose.

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Talking to your mom about your history of disordered eating, her response being how did I not know, I never worried about you, you did so well in school, you never got into trouble.

Like haha, mom you know what the profile of disordered eating looks like, don’t act like it doesn’t involve doing really well in school and being self-disciplined and self-controlling to an extreme.

So after about two years of being stuck in Depression and Extreme Anxiety. I’m starting to feel better, like I sleep and can wake up in the morning. I laughed a shit ton with a friend the other and realized it had been like a century since I really laughed. But I still keep getting random acute panic attacks, with really extreme hyperventilating etc. And I don’t know why or what to do other than just have the panic attack. I don’t know if part of it is the weaning off of medication or what.