Faith Ringgold's jounrey through activcism and art, the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Tibetan art, late 60s - every aspects of your writing captures a bit of the revolutionary air, professor Sarah. One question by the way - it that a coincience that American people #8 reminds me of German Expressionism in the Weimar Republic where some artists were also focusing on critique of society alientation and decades of those in power? I don't know who this reminds me of, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Geroge Grosz?
"Even though the Womens’ liberation movement was not at all intersectional, which she recognized at the time, she remained an active participant in civil rights discourse." I'm circling back to this because it has irked me so very very much. Sorry, but it's flippant and wildly inaccurate. It's exactly what dominant media wanted and propagated and is so easily debunked, but a media course correction will never stick. Yes, white women didn't shed their racism as they struck a language for their own oppression. And of course there was Betty Friedan who is held up as a giant problem with her classism and heterosexism, and others who captured media attention and wanted it. But the Women's Movement was so much larger, more intersectional, and raw, and now misunderstood, and it happened at a time when so many movements reached for light and air. Read Susan Brownmiller's memoir In Our Time, A Memoir of a Revolution. I'm doing some research for a post at the moment and I came across this bio at Goodreads that should illuminate this era a bit: "Elly Bulkin, an activist since the 1970s, has worked in DARE (Dykes Against Racism Everywhere), Women Free Women in Prison, Women in Black (Boston), and other local political groups, and was a member of the National Feminist Task Force of New Jewish Agenda. She was a founding editor of two nationally distributed periodicals: Conditions, a lesbian-feminist literary magazine, and Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends. She is co-author, with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith, of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984)."
Thank you i will order that memoir! My comment was more a reflection of Ringgold’s own complaints and feelings about this than my own perception (she too has a memoir that talks about the mainstream womens rights groups she had access to). But why am i not surprised that the dominant media was—and remains—misleading?!?! Ok going to go google your suggestions now :)
Faith Ringgold's jounrey through activcism and art, the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Tibetan art, late 60s - every aspects of your writing captures a bit of the revolutionary air, professor Sarah. One question by the way - it that a coincience that American people #8 reminds me of German Expressionism in the Weimar Republic where some artists were also focusing on critique of society alientation and decades of those in power? I don't know who this reminds me of, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Geroge Grosz?
"Even though the Womens’ liberation movement was not at all intersectional, which she recognized at the time, she remained an active participant in civil rights discourse." I'm circling back to this because it has irked me so very very much. Sorry, but it's flippant and wildly inaccurate. It's exactly what dominant media wanted and propagated and is so easily debunked, but a media course correction will never stick. Yes, white women didn't shed their racism as they struck a language for their own oppression. And of course there was Betty Friedan who is held up as a giant problem with her classism and heterosexism, and others who captured media attention and wanted it. But the Women's Movement was so much larger, more intersectional, and raw, and now misunderstood, and it happened at a time when so many movements reached for light and air. Read Susan Brownmiller's memoir In Our Time, A Memoir of a Revolution. I'm doing some research for a post at the moment and I came across this bio at Goodreads that should illuminate this era a bit: "Elly Bulkin, an activist since the 1970s, has worked in DARE (Dykes Against Racism Everywhere), Women Free Women in Prison, Women in Black (Boston), and other local political groups, and was a member of the National Feminist Task Force of New Jewish Agenda. She was a founding editor of two nationally distributed periodicals: Conditions, a lesbian-feminist literary magazine, and Bridges: A Journal for Jewish Feminists and Our Friends. She is co-author, with Minnie Bruce Pratt and Barbara Smith, of Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984)."
Thank you i will order that memoir! My comment was more a reflection of Ringgold’s own complaints and feelings about this than my own perception (she too has a memoir that talks about the mainstream womens rights groups she had access to). But why am i not surprised that the dominant media was—and remains—misleading?!?! Ok going to go google your suggestions now :)
Apparently no bras were ever burned…
Wow. And "twenty-three honorary doctorates"? Did I read that right?