FEMST 60 Chapter 10: week 10 online reading
Document Summary
Crunk feminist collective: pussy don"t fail me now. Significance of organizing around vaginas and the use of the term pussy . Pussy often used to degrade importance/seriousness of work done by women (scared, invaluable, insignificant etc) Epistemic exploitation: privileged people compelling marginalized people to produce education/explanation of the oppressions they are facing. Centers the needs of the dominant groups and exploits the emotional and cognitive labor of members of the marginalized group. Disempowers and undermines the oppressions faced by woc, poc, and other minorities by forcing them to explain and ustify their conditions and forms of oppression they are enduring to the very people doing the oppressing. Hip hop feminism promotes taking back the term pussy. Feminism promotes loving and embracing vaginas and reproductive terms that are hushed by mainstream society. Trying to reverse the shame placed on women and girls in society for going through puberty, periods, sex etc.
