#cleanergate I’m frequently scolded on here for not being serious enough - for being unprofessional, overly sarcastic, too jokey and just plain silly. So let me say that ...
#cleanergate is the perfect case study through which to consider the overlaps of a number of very problematic discourses - neo-liberalism, colonialism, classism and gendered and sexual conservatism - within some strands of popular feminism.
Such discursive frameworks within ‘mainstream feminism’ (Phipps, 2020) seek, literally and figuratively, to construct the feminist subject- and so feminist political priorities- in its own name to reflect those who are mobile, able bodied, white, middle class, cisgendered, hetero
By turn, those outside these dominant groups are discounted as women whose lives matter. Women of colour, disabled women, poor women, trans women and queer women are excluded from feminisms’ gaze; becoming abject women, women who don’t count
This not only matters in terms of whose lives are ‘liveable’ (Butler, 2009) but sets out whose lives are recognised as being worthy of life itself. #cleanergate has judged which women may live and which may die.
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