The fantasy of women’s collective historical identity
I was just reading Joan W. Scott’s ‘Fantasy Echo: History and the Construction of Identity,’ which was published in Critical …
Tag Archives: meta social justice
The reason I’m not writing at the moment
at dear Zero at the Bone, is that I, Chally Kacelnik, am in the bad place. Or, rather, the feminist …
On a personal note
I’ve long maintained that I have the best, kindest readers in the multiverse. I’ll sometimes get emails from people asking …
Hey, feminists who try to reclaim the term “feminazi”? Don’t.
I can’t think of anything that makes me see so much red as people appropriating genocide for kicks and giggles. …
A thought towards more productive social justice conversations
I’m having a think about the way conversations about contentious topics run, and how to keep them spiralling out of …
The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hello and welcome to the forty-sixth edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I last hosted DUFC #12, so I’m …
Never forget where you came from
Identity and vulnerable social positioning aren’t necessarily constant things. You move. You grow up. Maybe your gender or sexual orientation …
Linksplosion!: Writing that got to me edition
Emily Rapp at The Rumpus: Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship Here’s the truth: friendships between women are …
You Have to Keep Remembering
I’m twenty-one today. It’s funny to think of having dreamed up this blog as a seventeen year old, to have …
Who counts in talking about social justice?
A few weeks back, I was having a conversation with some classmates about historical sexual slavery. There was a thread …
Identity, visibility, and the Internet
One of the cool things about being a blogger is that sometimes people working on essays or theses want to …
When resistance looks like capitulation
In chapter four of The Sex Which Is Not One – I know, I know, I’m a real Arts student …
Some opening thoughts on religious faith and social justice
I knew a girl – I almost said young woman, but, no, she’d prefer girl – who was in the …
What’s to be done?
Yesterday afternoon, I was minding my own business, talking with someone on the way to the bus stop, when some …
Representing representations of feminism
I ran across a (decontextualised, and I’m running with that) quote of Yale political science and philosophy professor Seyla Benhabib’s …
