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the slimy underbelly of sympathetic understanding of the Other

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Racialization, Theory, Third World Feminism, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

this is a really great review of Martha Nussbaum’s book, Sex and Social Justice Cecilia (from Au) kept telling me to read it because I’d probably appreciate her discussion of objectification, sex work, etc. I read it two summers ago, and after wading through what seemed to be far too much text for what it […]


moral entrepreneurialism and fundamentalist feminism

By shag carpet bomb • Mar 10th, 2009 • Category: Feminist Fight Club, Laura Agustin, Nation State, Prostitution, Radical Feminism, Research, Sex & Sexuality, Sex Positive Politics, Sex Work, Sex at the Margins, Third World Feminism

while this is out of order, I couldn’t resist writing a bit about Agustin’s ethnographically thick description of attending a conference on prostitution, one led by what we typically call abolitionists — activists who are opposed to prostitution and want to abolish it.
Agustin calls them moral entrepreneurs, which tickled me because it’s an old term […]


microcredit as the political economy of shame

By shag carpet bomb • Dec 16th, 2008 • Category: Class, Economics, Feminist Fight Club, Imperialism, Labor Struggles, Racialization, Third World Feminism

Microcredit: a political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad

It’s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win.
What do they say about things that […]


catching up

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Racialization, Third World Feminism, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

i still haven’t had much time but i did stumble over some of the recent events re brownfemipower, amanda marcotte, appropriation, and racist imagery.
i suppose, having been accused of appropriating for writing the old bitch lab/queer dewd blog, i should be sympathetic. obviously i’m not but i did have to laugh when, recounting events to […]


desexualizing brown women

By shag carpet bomb • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Imperialism, Orientalism, Racialization, Sex & Sexuality, Social movements, Third World Feminism, Whiteness

Last year, brownfemipower criticized u.s feminism because its rhetoric desexualizes women of color — a discourse that also exists within a wider u.s. discourse where women of color are racialized by hypersexualizing their bodies as well. And this can seem puzzling. How can both be going on? It’s also harder to illustrate, I think, because […]


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