Thread by @Smashboard_

@IndiaMeToo It feels really powerful to see how women are coming out and speaking up as well as standing up for each other!This strengthens what we called, sisterhood!When I talk about concerns that got erased in this celebration of sisterhood,I am not delegitimising ur struggles/pain at all

@IndiaMeToo Thank you for the question. This has two questions and I would like to answer the second one by the end of this thread. And coming to inclusion- I'm gonna share in 2/3 tweets what bell hooks says about white feminism, the inclusion of black women in women's movement.

@IndiaMeToo "The white woman could at least plead for her own emancipation; the black women 'doubly enslaved', could but suffer and struggle and be silent"

@IndiaMeToo "The tendency to romanticize the black female experience that began in the feminist movement was reflected in the culture as a whole. The stereotypical image of the "strong” black woman was no longer seen as dehumanizing, it became the new badge of black female glory"

@IndiaMeToo "White feminists could pay lip-service to the idea of sisterhood and solidarity between women but at the same time dismiss black women."

@IndiaMeToo One more important that shall be noted is that caste& race are not the same things. Caste is about structures, endogamy, social order, layered oppression, multiplicity&more But both have similarities, esp experiences of black women and marginalised women when to comes to feminism

@IndiaMeToo Inclusion:When Savarna (uppercaste) women speak about 'women's' rights, they are talking abt only 'staright-able bodied-uppercaste' women's concerns by totally dismissing the existence of women with disabilities,North Eastren and Kashmiri women and Dalit,OBC,Adivasi, Muslim women

@IndiaMeToo For ex: This whole #MeToo is a digitalised movement, have we ever thought how women with ceratin disabilities will access this? How women who cannot write, read and have access to internet/even a smart phone will come forward and say #MeToo ? Did we try to include them here?- NO!

@IndiaMeToo Do we have Northeastren and Kashmiri women talking here? And are we including transwomen's struggles where everyday is a #MeToo for trans folks. Also, what is the proportion of women that can come forward and speak up/tweet/have access and posses a support system and security?

@IndiaMeToo Who 'can' speakup by putting their identities out, is a large question altogther again. I am asking these questions so that you yourself understand why inclusivity matters and how this whole digital #metoo community is so small and exclusionary.

@IndiaMeToo To know more about inclusivity and why intersectionality matters in movements like this please watch @firstpost 's panel on inclusivity by @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena
m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena Intersectionality and inclusivity are the heart of feminist practice, then why this need of constant reminders about it by marginalised women coming up?because ours is a casteist, racist, ableist, transphobic society. The second wave of #MeToo became "second" in words only after+

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena +many dalit women spoke against the erasure of #LoSHA, a list of sexual predators in academia created by a queer dalit woman. The list did not get acceptance by the same feminists who are today are getting hailed as the 'change makers and saviours'.

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena Moreover, it even got backlash and statements got released against Raya Sarkar who made the list Is it because the list has powerful uppercaste men who are conisdered as allies to these savarna feminits? And is it also because the list is made by an 'ordinary' dalit queer perosn?

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena The same method of erasing happened when @TaranaBurke started off #MeToo , she had to battle the erasure. “The whole time I was fretting about saving my work. And I didn’t realize that ‘my work’ was happening right in front of me," Burke wrote:
huffingtonpost.in/entry/tarana-b…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke Now, this is called as pushing away inclusivity even marginalised are trying to get included. Also, there are many reasons to why, we felt we don't belong in this second wave- in this article @Miminality explains one of the reasons:
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality @caselchris1 on why she felt there is huge erasure of Dalit women's voices in the second wave and dalits are engaging with it:
twitter.com/i/moments/1049…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality Can we have sex workers and Dalit women who face abuse and discrimination on a routinely basis lending their voice to this “me too” movement or will they be still judged for their choices overlooked by the society?"
edtimes.in/where-are-dali…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality The biggest advances in women’s rights in India were the rewriting of the rape laws in the 70s, as an outcome of the independent struggle of one young girl, Mathura, an adivasi in MP"

shethepeople.tv/top-stories/da…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality Here's an anti-caste feminist statement on #MeToo

https://twitter.com/dalitwomenfight/status/1049914884417355776

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality And coming to, complete erasure of Northeastren voices in #MeToo
shethepeople.tv/home-top-video…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality And coming to the complete erasure of Northeastren voices in #MeToo
shethepeople.tv/home-top-video…

please follow @Ngurang_Reena and @makesyoucakes for more conversations on #MeToo from North East

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality @makesyoucakes " women with disabilities are more prone to discrimination, abuse and violence" writes @saysnidhigoyal
womenintheworld.com/2018/10/02/wom…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality @makesyoucakes The widespread denial across India of the mass rapes in Kunan and Poshpora must be seen as one manifestation of the refusal to believe survivors-then supporters of Me Too must move beyond communitarian and nationalistic affiliations"
theladiesfinger.com/a-decolonial-f…

@IndiaMeToo @firstpost @caselchris1 @saysnidhigoyal @Ngurang_Reena @TaranaBurke @Miminality @makesyoucakes I am not giving my own analysis on the experiences of the kashmiri, Northeastren, Transwomen, and women with disabiities as it is not my pace to speak 'for' them. Please follow these handles I provided and 'lsiten' to what they are saying.