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Posts Tagged ‘Intersectionality’

bell hooks: the politics of accountability

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Belly Button Lint, Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Women of Color Feminism

This is a really awesome talk hooks gave. In it, she brings up the issue that inflamed folks recently when Renee Martin wrote about big girl panties. While I disagree with Martin’s characterizations of Black Amazon and others, I think hooks says some really interesting things here, some of which I tend to chafe against […]


bell hooks: a complex accounting of identity

By shag carpet bomb • Apr 16th, 2009 • Category: Black Feminist Thought, Feminist Fight Club, Identity Politics, Intersectionality, Racialization, Whiteness, Women of Color Feminism

At work, I’ve been doing a lot of rather rote work that requires a ton of QA. It leaves me lots of time to listen to lectures and talks on youtube. I finally found that one video that I’d seen, the one where hooks discusses institutionalized racism and what she thinks of as the need […]


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