Posts Tagged with ‘kyriarchy’
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The Elements of Intersectionality
05 Jun 2013
The term "intersectionality" was coined by Crenshaw in 1989 to explore the experiences of Black women, trapped between dual discourses of "woman" - dominated by white women, and "Black" - dominated by Black men, to consider how their experiences were erased among competition between those alter-narratives and the fight for …
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Scottish Independence: A Step on the Road to Socialism
10 May 2013
First published in "Scotland’s Road to Socialism – Time to Choose", edited by Gregor Gall and published by SLR Press, this article from the collection of 22 perspectives of a diverse range of people on the left towards the future of Scotland in the run up to the Independence Referendum …
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Radical Independence: Roundup and Review
02 Dec 2012
Its now been a week since Radical Independence Conference was held, bringing together voices for independence from all over the country. Trending on Twitter it was clear that this was a decisive moment. Mid-conference, during an interview with NorthSound Radio Alex Salmond, the SNP First Minister stated that he welcomed …
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Privilege Theory and its use in Activist Circles
07 Oct 2012
The concept of privilege as a structural cultural entity can be traced back to Jean Baker Millar's Towards a New Psychology of Women in the mid-70s. From its roots in feminism, it has been extended to other forms of structural oppression, where a dominant and a subordinate group can be …
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On Pro-feminism and Its Imitators
25 Mar 2012
Men cannot be feminists. They cannot. Please, please can we put this one to bed. This comes up time and time again both in real life and online where men insist that they are feminists and that I am quite wrong to insist that they are not. Feminism is the fight …
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Kony, Kyriarchy and “The Left”
13 Mar 2012
I watched the Kony2012 viral video and response with mounting horror. A slick, professional propaganda film, heavy on emotional pull demanding US intervention in Central Africa gained a visibility that most activist campaigns can only dream of. The campaign has been critiqued in a variety of places from a variety …
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Riding the Waves
24 Jan 2012
Feminism is in flux these days. As the waves lap at the shore, generational differences are crashing into one another and creating a lot of white water. I’m not old enough to remember the start of the second wave, but I am almost certain that there would have been conflict …
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Union Power, Kyriarchy and the Scab
02 Dec 2011
The last blogpost generated quite a bit of discussion in various places about the use of the term "Scab", the power it holds and when its use is appropriate. Only two schools in Glasgow were open on N30, both heavily picketed with lively and cheerful, if a bit damp, strikers. …
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Kyriarchy and Class
16 Nov 2011
Since discovering the term kyriarchy earlier this year, I've become a big fan. I've always been quite uncomfortable about the inter-relationship between feminism and race, not only with the temptation to "rank the oppressions" (as one wit said on twitter - being feminist and anti-racist is all very well, but …
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De-occupy Glasgow
27 Oct 2011
Update - Open Letter from Glasgow Women's Activist Forum I can't honestly say that I was ever that enthused about the "Occupy Movement". After seeing a live link up from Occupy Wall Street earlier this month, I did feel a frisson of revolutionary excitement, but it faded by the time …
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Inclusion, Call-outs & the Gaze
08 Oct 2011
Privilege manifests itself in all kinds of different ways. People are brought up with notions of what is right and proper and oftentimes these notions include deeply biased value systems. Each generation battles the ideas of the one before, the one that brought them up both collectively and individually. Sometimes …
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Scottish Identity – Visions & Mirages
03 Oct 2011
Over on Bella Caledonia, David Tobin writes on Post-Colonial Scotland, examining the "national identity politics" which are shaping us on our course to independence. This is indeed a key question for us as a nation as we forge an identity of ourselves in the world - what narratives and images …
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On Defeating the Kyriarchy
09 Sep 2011
Kyriarchy is a term coined in But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation by Fiorenza and adopted by many third wave feminists as a more encompassing view of power and privilege than the concept of patriarchy, which dominated the analysis of most second wave feminists. Understanding the concerns of, …
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On listening to the Straight White Males
17 Jun 2011
Difficulties in addressing issues of gender, race and sexuality are notoriously fraught with difficulty. Sometimes, an issue is so common and accepted that you don’t actually see it. Sometimes there are real cries of anguish masked in attention seeking behaviour, and sometimes there is genuine confusion behind crass attempts to …