In France earlier this year, in reaction to the MeToo movement, around one hundred women from the fields of film, contemporary art, and literature (including, most notably, Catherine Millet and Catherine Deneuve) published an open letter in the French newspaper Le Monde expressing concern over the alleged puritanism of the movement and its witch hunt against men.Installation view at Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power, KIOSK, Ghent.
We should be able to engage with them on concrete levels and in the places in our proximity. And yet, as Wekker asked in her talk, how could one seriously believe that centuries-long imperialism would not leave its traces in the institutions, languages, and ways in which those in the Global North look at one another. In addition to programming, accountability should have a prominent place on the level of teamwork as well as in situations of exchange and mediation with the publics. During previous decades in the social sciences, especially in anthropology and feminist studies, the reflexive turn toward accountability has led researchers to the systematic and rigorous disclosure of their methodologies and their own subjective and situated views. Employing and learning with this method, institutions can enable accountability, which is a powerful weapon against co-option in the fields of social and environmental justice especially. Specifically, in the field of contemporary art, it can be a tool for reforming institutional ethics, teamwork methods, and internal diversity policies, and for repeatedly redefining who the institution intends to address. Establishing a legal basis for womens right to abortion, equal economic status, and equal participation in the political sphere are a few of the battles that have been appropriated by corporate feminism. This is only one example of the depoliticization of feminist legacies. Farris proposes to describe the political exploitation of feminist themes by both ultra-right-wing politicians and neoliberals. ![]() Catching Fire Cherrie Moraga Professional Women ToConsidering that the unacknowledged domestic and care workers who enable professional women to strive towards balance in their lives are less privileged and are often women of color, this omission is not surprising. And neoliberals increasingly generalize, stigmatize, and criminalize Muslim populationswomen and men alikeunder the banner of gender equality. Following the belated recognition of Burkes pioneering care work, Feimster encourages current MeToo activists to recognize their allyship with the historic struggle of black women against issues of rape and racism. She defined it as the view that women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity. As Crenshaw sees it today, intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. For example, the groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and artworks This Bridge Called My Back was first published in 1981. This testimony to feminist women of color that was coedited by poet and activist Cherre Moraga and poet and theorist Gloria Anzalda. In the preface to the fourth edition, published in 2015, Moraga precisely defines the importance of the book: it shows the living experience of what academics now refer to as intersectionality, where multiple identities converge at the crossroads of a woman of colour life. ![]() Alongside poems, letters, testimonies, and manifestos by women of color from all over the worldamong them the foundational intersectional manifesto of the Combahee River Collective from 1977 16 are reproductions of artworks by Ana Mendieta, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Celia Herrera Rodrguez, and Betye Saar. The group was active until 1982, organizing demonstrations and writing pamphlets on anti-imperialism, class struggle, and the lack of rights afforded to immigrant women in France. The members also denounced the instrumentalization and repression of women under dictatorial regimes in Africa. These topics are all debated exclusively by womenacross races, classes, and sexual orientations. Renowned ecofeminist writer and activist Vandana Shiva appears in another accompanying video by Franoise Dasques about Nairobi.
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