Tag: Lierre Keith
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Lierre Keith on Liberalism
“At this moment, the liberal basis of most progressive movements is impeding our ability, individually and collectively, to take action. The individualism of liberalism, and of American society generally, renders too many of us unable to think clearly about our dire situation. Individual action is not an effective response
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Feminist Quote of the Day – Lierre Keith:The Girls and the Grasses
Lierre Keith’s writing is formidable. Her first sentence is pure word-smithery gold. Catch the full article at Deep Green Resistance. “If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: no. “No” is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Lierre Keith on Patriarchy
“The real brilliance of patriarchy… it doesn’t just naturalize oppression. It sexualizes acts of oppression. It eroticizes domination and subordination. It institutionalizes them as masculinity and femininity. So it naturalizes, it eroticizes and it institutionalizes domination and subordination. The brilliance of feminism is that we figured that out. Filed under:
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR Quote of the Day – On Power – Lierre Keith
“Power is not a mistake in which the powerful can be educated, it’s not a misunderstanding, and it’s not a disagreement. Justice is not won by moral argument, or exertion, or individual transformation, and it’s not won by spiritual epiphany – It’s won by taking power away from the powerful and dismantling the institutions.” – […]
Dead Wild Roses: Feminist Quote of the Day – The Gender Binary – Lierre Keith
What is gender and how does if affect our society? Lierre Keith provides some insight and clarity regarding the topic while casting some shade on the po-mo obfuscation of said topic.
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