MUSI 2540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Little Mix, Intersectionality, Me Too Movement
9 May 2018
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What were the major actions for women in 2017?
● What did they hope to accomplish?
● What did they actually achieve?
List:
● #MeToo
● Women’s March
● Addressing sexual harassment
○ In congress
○ In the music and entertainment industry
Pink - What About Us
Paramore - Fake Happy/Hard Times/Rose Colored Boy
Little Mix -
Praying
● Relevant in the media
● She’s “free” of him - he’s not directly working with her anymore
● Doctor Luke
A Social Justice Frame: Intersectional feminism:
● Intersectional feminism: the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that
women face, based not just on gender but on ethnicity, sexuality, economic background,
and a number of other axes.
○ According to Kimberle Crenshaw, “There are many, many different kinds of
intersectional exclusions - not just black women, but other women of color. Not
just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people.
Indigenous people… The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment
often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of
exclusion,” she continued. “The good news is that intersectionality provides us a
way to see it.”
● You can’t discriminate against someone else in order to validate yourself/bring yourself
upwards.
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Document Summary
She"s free of him - he"s not directly working with her anymore. Intersectional feminism: the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women face, based not just on gender but on ethnicity, sexuality, economic background, and a number of other axes. According to kimberle crenshaw, there are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women, but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Indigenous people the way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion, she continued. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.
