Feminism is more than men, more than misogyny. It’s a struggle to destroy the patriarchy & its attendant oppressions. I began FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches because feminism must fight structural inequalities & injustices resulting from patriarchy
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We who fight for and have long wanted revolution always say that at its heart, revolution is to imagine the impossible.
We’re not living through a revolution but a pandemic.
So now what do we do with “impossible”?
We’re not living through a revolution but a pandemic.
So now what do we do with “impossible”?
Why was it impossible to:
- live in dignity
- ensure no one in our communities was hurt or suffering
- understand that the suffering of others affects us all
- understand that “I’m ok” is never enough
- live in dignity
- ensure no one in our communities was hurt or suffering
- understand that the suffering of others affects us all
- understand that “I’m ok” is never enough
Why was it impossible to:
- spend more on health and education than military budgets
- understand that poverty should not exist, that we can end it
- ensure that everyone who wanted a home had one
- ensure that home was not where the hurt was because of abusive partners/parents
- spend more on health and education than military budgets
- understand that poverty should not exist, that we can end it
- ensure that everyone who wanted a home had one
- ensure that home was not where the hurt was because of abusive partners/parents
Why was it impossible to:
- understand that children are the responsibility of society, all of us
- senior citizens are the responsibility of society, all of us
- refugees and asylum seekers are the responsibility of us all, all of us
- understand that children are the responsibility of society, all of us
- senior citizens are the responsibility of society, all of us
- refugees and asylum seekers are the responsibility of us all, all of us
Why was it impossible to:
- understand that “work” was not a dehumanizing, humiliating grind that rarely fulfills nor feeds no matter how hard you work
- understand that “rules” & “way things are” should never have been used to punish & exclude different-abled and disabled people
- understand that “work” was not a dehumanizing, humiliating grind that rarely fulfills nor feeds no matter how hard you work
- understand that “rules” & “way things are” should never have been used to punish & exclude different-abled and disabled people
Why was it impossible to:
- ensure that no one went hungry
- ensure that race, sex, gender, class, faith-background, ability, were reasons to hurt or punish or exclude
- hate greed more and love capital less
- ensure that no one went hungry
- ensure that race, sex, gender, class, faith-background, ability, were reasons to hurt or punish or exclude
- hate greed more and love capital less
And now, even as we try to survive a pandemic, we will hear “it is impossible” to even imagine abolishing things we know have failed or hurt us. What is ”too far”?
- The State
- The military
- The police
- Prisons
- Borders
- Patriarchy
For how much longer? Until when?
- The State
- The military
- The police
- Prisons
- Borders
- Patriarchy
For how much longer? Until when?
Whenever I think about freedom and what we must imagine to make it possible, I also think about what we must invent - as in what June Jordan says here that I use as the epigraph for the chapter on the “sin” of Power in my latest book #7NecessarySins 
"The difficult, I'll do right now; the impossible will take a little while."
- Billie Holiday.
I should always pair these threads with a song:
- Billie Holiday.
I should always pair these threads with a song:
