I am a feminist. I am an anarchist. To me, any discussion of power is essentially one about freedom, and talk of freedom is impossible without a reckoning with power. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
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Men are not my yardstick. If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them.
I do not want what men have. I want much more. I want to be free.
Patriarchy too often throws women crumbs in return for a limited form of power. Women who accept those crumbs are expected in return to uphold patriarchy, internalize its dictates, police other women and never forget that power bestowed is power that can be retracted.
I don’t want crumbs; I want the whole cake, and I want to bake it myself. I want, as June Jordan wrote, “to invent the power my freedom requires.”
To be free, I must defy, disobey, and disrupt patriarchy and its oppressions.
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