{"id":4339,"date":"2008-04-17T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T01:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-04-17T18:14:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T01:14:59","slug":"brownfemipower%e2%80%99s-final-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4339","title":{"rendered":"BrownFemiPower\u2019s Final (?) Words"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BrownFemiPower says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I wrote what I wrote to say that there either is a feminist movement or there isn\u2019t\u2014and if feminists can\u2019t even be called on to point to the work that other feminists are doing\u2014if simply pointing to a whole sphere of pro-immigration bloggers (because, to be clear, I stated pro-immigration bloggers <\/strong>and men and women bloggers of color<\/strong> NOT brownfemipower<\/strong>) who have been blogging incessantly about this is too much work for feminism\u2014well, then there\u2019s no fucking feminist movement.<\/p>\n

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I never said that it\u2019s important to recognize that I had the idea first. I don\u2019t give a shit who came up with the idea first\u2014even if it WAS me. I don\u2019t give a shit who thought of what first. I don\u2019t fucking want credit for anything outside of existing. (For those who care, what I really said: There\u2019s a lot of women of color (and men of color!)<\/strong> who have talked about immigration. There\u2019s a lot of women of color and men of color<\/strong> who have examined how sexualized violence has been the foremost result of the \u201cstrengthening\u201d of borders. There\u2019s been a lot of us<\/strong> who have insisted for a long time now that immigration is a feminist issue, goddamn it, get your head out of your ass.<\/em><\/p>\n

I even wrote a whole speech about it<\/a> (link not available\u2013BUT for those who DID see the speech, do you happen to recall that long list of LINKED work at the beginning of the speech?).<\/em><\/p>\n

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This was NEVER ABOUT FUCKING BROWNFEMIPOWER except in the sense that I BELONG to immigrant communities and I BELONG to pro-immigration blogger community and I BELONG to the women of color community and I THOUGHT I belonged to a feminist community.
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This was about women of color constantly being written out of feminism, being written out of our own communities BY feminism\u2014then being beaten up by feminists with JUST DO IT, JUST DO IT, JUST FUCKING DO IT YOU LAZY SPICS.<\/p>\n

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I know<\/strong> I\u2019m brownfemipower and I want to end violence against women. And I wanted<\/strong> to do that with all the women who keep insisting to me that we are all in this together and we have common problems that we have to work against and we\u2019re all sisters, and there is such thing as a commonality of experience between us all\u2014as I said in my original post\u2014I thought feminism was important because it brought women together (I had thought at one time that feminism was about justice for women. I had thought it was about centering the needs of women, and creating action in the name of, by and for women. I had thought that feminism has its problems but it\u2019s worth fighting for, worth sacrificing and sweating and crying and breaking down for.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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I realize now that \u201cfeminism\u201d and I stand in direct opposition to each other\u2014that the feminists who aren\u2019t actively working against me and my community are, like Seymour Hersch, few and far between. <\/em><\/p>\n

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This has caused a radical shifting in my thinking. A shifting that I have no desire to work through online\u2014but that I need to think through before I can act. I am not giving up. I am just thinking. And resting. And reading my beloved books and soaking my tired dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cuz giiirls, my dogs are TIRED.<\/em><\/p>\n

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As I said in my last post\u2014I will find you, and you will find me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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BrownFemiPower says:
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