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The Case of the Awkward White Feminist (Ep44)
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In the recording of the call, Jennifer models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women. She talks boldly about birth control, about abortions as a reproductive right, about being child-free, and about her relationship with women of color and queer women.
In the close out, I talk about my desire to talk about feminism as I thought it could be the route to talking about gender. I have more experience in talking about race (as opposed to gender) so I thought a conversation about feminism would give me an opportunity to explore what it means to be female in a sexist world structure. But, with Jennifer (like with Dr. Monique Liston from Ep30 and Dr. Dara Nix-Stephenson from Ep32), I learned that it is quite difficult to talk about gender without talking about race.
Needless to say, I learned a lot in my conversation with Jennifer about gender and race from the perspective of a white woman who aims to be critical and socially just (the embodiment of the awkward white feminist). Please click here (11/6/18) and join me in the lesson.
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Key Points Discussed:
- The right to control what happens to the body as relating to reproductive rights
- Striving to do it right (feminism) while acknowledging that one is going to do it wrong
- White feminism and the lean-in movement
- Remembering race while forgetting it in friendships
- Being child-free versus being childless
- Staying in your lane as an idiom that belongs to black women
- Intersectional feminist and womanist as terms that white women cannot use
- Gender as a social construct
- Masculine and feminine energy as related to gender
- Unschooling/alt-schooling
- White people doing racial justice work with other white people (as opposed to doing it with people of color)
- Being bitchy and being in bitch mode
- Voting with black women
- Upholding patriarchy versus disrupting it and creating something new
Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Robin Deangelo (the author of White Fragility)
Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations (podcast)
Other ESHpodcast Episodes Mentioned
- Ep00- The Case of Power, Social Change and Disrupting Margins (a solo episode with the host)
- Ep17- The Case of Power and Season 1 (a solo episode with the host)
- Ep30- The Case of Race and Dignity (with the informant Dr. Monique Liston)
- Ep32- The Case of Critical Race Feminism (with the informant Dr. Dara Nix-Stephenson)
- Ep45- The Case of White Male Privilege and Identity (with the informants Chris Thinnes from Ep03; Peter Anderson from Ep09; Dr. Paul Thomas from Ep10; and Justin Schleider from Ep24)
Terms and Concepts Mentioned
white feminism; black feminism; queer feminism; womanism; intersectional feminism; emotional labor; gender and race; bitch/bitchy
Mistakes/Corrections
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The Full Link for the Episode…
http://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/ep44-the-case-of-the-awkward-white-feminist
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