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[maevele]

Is Intersectional Feminist like, a thing yet? as in, can I call myself that in order to hang on to the root idea behing feminism [sexismbad] while disassociating from feminists who have clued out on intersectionality?

because I obviousl can't just say 'I'm a feminist' anymore, and haven't been able to in a long ass time

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[were_duck]

Ooooh, that is a great idea.

[daedala]

Does "third wave feminist" get at that idea?

[dharma_slut]

"I'm an intersectionalist."

HMM...

Boys will hear that and think you're going to fuck them...

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Womanism seems a lot more hip to intersectionality.

I tend to say "I'm a feminist, but not one of, you know, THOSE feminists," which is pretty inadequate.

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

If Intersectional Feminist isn't yet a term, we should make it one.

[shemale.livejournal.com]

you can be anti-sexism without wanting to associate yourself with a movement as fucked as feminism

[annaham.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, it tends to be more accepted in academic circles (although that's probably my bias showing ^-^)...other places, though, not so sure.

[leeoakfire.livejournal.com]

I knindof know what you mean. The day my sister kidnapped my mother was the day I disassociated from the "feminist" label. I chose to do that because my sister was the one who introduced me to feminism [1], but I realized that she was only interested in being self-centered, and only caring about what effects her personally. She didn't care about any of the othe isms, especially poverty and mental illness. She treated my mother disrespectfully for the last forty years because my mother had some mental illness. So, that is why I quit using that word on that day.

[1[ -- my sister was/is a fairly prominent second wave feminist; she won the Susan B. Anthony Award from N.O.W. for pioneering rape research, plus did a bunch of other stuff. She used to be my role model and my hero. Not any more.