{"id":2893,"date":"2006-11-10T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/10\/ellen-willis-1941-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:35:45","slug":"ellen-willis-1941-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Willis, 1941-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2892\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/ellen_willis.jpg\" alt=\"Ellen Willis\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Feminist essayist (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Redstockings\">Redstockings<\/a> cofounder) Ellen Willis has died. Bitch | Lab has a post with dozens of links to pieces both by and about Ellen Willis &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pulpculture.org\/2006\/11\/09\/ellen-willis-presente\/\">check it out<\/a>. (And then look through B|L&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pulpculture.org\/2006\/11\/09\/threateningly-political\/\">other <\/a>recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pulpculture.org\/2006\/11\/10\/ellen-willis-wars\/\">posts <\/a>for more about Willis, including <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pulpculture.org\/2006\/11\/10\/ellen-wills\/\">Willis&#8217; <em>NY Times<\/em> obit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>From Willis&#8217; 1998 essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdworldtraveler.com\/Political\/Radical_Left.html\">&#8220;We Need A Radical Left&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No mass left-wing movement has ever been built on a majoritarian strategy. On the contrary, every such movement- socialism, populism, labor, civil rights, feminism, gay rights, ecology-has begun with a visionary minority whose ideas were at first decried as impractical, ridiculous, crazy, dangerous and\/or immoral. By definition, the conventional wisdom of the day is widely accepted, continually reiterated and regarded not as ideology but as reality itself. Rebelling against &#8220;reality,&#8221; even when its limitations are clearly perceived, is always difficult. It means deciding things can be different and ought to be different; that your own perceptions are right and the experts and authorities wrong; that your discontent is legitimate and not merely evidence of selfishness, failure or refusal to grow up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feminist essayist (and Redstockings cofounder) Ellen Willis has died. Bitch | Lab has a post with dozens of links to pieces both by and about Ellen Willis &#8211; check it out. (And then look through B|L&#8217;s other recent posts for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}