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Manifesto! 5/5 – Not The Marrying Kind – Statements…The End
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I think there’s humor in the hypocrisy of a movement that fights for marriage equality while lauding a film like “Brokeback Mountain” as romantic when the core basis of the film is an extra-marital affair. But it seems being on the down’low is acceptable as long as those engaging in it are white and only betraying women. Although the theme of pretending to be something you’re not fits in quite well with the homogenizing view of the large GLBTQ organizations.
Posted in anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Tagged anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Manifesto! 4/5 – Not The Marrying Kind: Statements…(cont.2)
Previously – Not The Marrying Kind: Statements…(cont.)
I believe that the fierceness and power of the movement has been bled out by the constant focus on marriage equality as the only issue of importance perpetuated by large, wealthy, privileged groups such as GLAAD and the HRC who are looking out for themselves as opposed to the community as a whole.
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Tagged anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Manifesto! 3/5 – Not The Marrying Kind: Statements…(cont.)
Previously – Not The Marrying Kind: Statements…
I don’t understand how fighting tooth and claw for inclusion in such a problematic power structure such as marriage is a fight for everyone’s equality. A marginalized group fighting for a bigger piece of the pie rather than the eradication of the system has never led to liberation.
Posted in anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Tagged anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Manifesto! 2/5 – Not The Marrying Kind: Statements…
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I understand that marriage is a prison, has a historical basis in silencing women and trading them like pieces of chattel and that a mere fifty years of “change” or transgressive reinterpretations can in no way wipe out a history of oppression and inequality stretching back centuries.
Posted in anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Tagged anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Manifesto! 1/5 – Not The Marrying Kind: Introduction
So both my readings last week went exceptionally well. I got a bunch of compliments on my prose piece and am going to submit it somewhere this week and despite my fear the Manifesto reading went swimmingly. The audience got what I was saying and was whooping and hollering in agreement. In fact after the reading I had a few people come up to me and ask if they could find it online or if it was posted anywhere. I had been on the fence about putting it up online simply because it is pretty radical and the blogosphere is a very different environment than the very radical space I was in for the reading. I’m not up for some of the comments I’ll inevitably get but having folks ask me if they could find it online made me realize that if no one sees or hears a manifesto what is the freaking point?!
So my Manifesto, Not The Marrying Kind will be going up in five parts this week. I’m breaking it up, not to make more posts out of it (or at least not just because of that) but because it’s the way I wrote it – in a series of chunks – and I like the idea of it being experienced in that way. In fact at the reading since we had interruptions from the audience they got it broken into sections as well and I think it worked very well, allowing folks to take in the previous points before moving on. Keep in mind that this is an early iteration of the work and it may grow, shrink, shift during any future re-writes however the core of it will not alter.
Not The Marrying Kind: Intro
Posted in anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing
Tagged anti-oppression, Feminism, GLBT, identity politics, intersectionality, manifesto, misogyny, People of Color, politics, privilege, Queer, queerism, race, racism, Theory & Criticism, writing