2011

Facilitators: Lee Lakeman – Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter ...

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Our Means Will Condition Our Ends July 6, 2011 For the purpose of this conversation, let's accept that we continue to agree that “the personal is the political” and that “no woman is free until all women are free.” We inhabit a gendered world not only oppressive to women, but also infused with homophobia and ableism, nationalism, militarism and masculinist ideology.  Generations of women are divided not only by experience, but also by changing material conditions and sexist mythology.  ...

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Reform and /or Revolution?  July 5, 2011 We define “reform” as positive changes that may buffer some women, but operate within the existing Patriarchal power relations which hold men (both individually and collectively) over women We define “feminist transformation” as revolutionary changes because they affect the fundamentals of those Patriarchal power relations (of the individual men and group men over women) toward an egalitarian and liberatory future. ...

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