Workin' on it! We activate! We agitate! Womyn of color, Occupy Wall Street & beyond!
Publisher: SlushPilePress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: S.l
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Minority women; Social conditions; Feminism; Racism; Occupy movement
Description: This collection of essays by women of color analyzes, critiques, and proposes change for their role within the international Occupy movement and in societies worldwide. Topics covered in the essays include women of color and religious women having a place in modern feminism, transgender women of color, Arab women's role in Arab Spring and western perception of Arab women, and France's ban on the burka and hijabs. There are essays (including blog post reprints) on battles for gender equality in Afghanistan, Arab women fighting for environmental protections, the importance of dispelling general assumptions about feminists in Africa. There are stories of Ugandan police brutality towards female protestors, the life of Central American guerrilla student protestor Delfina Gochez Fernandez, anti-imperialism movements, and women-led protests in Japan against nuclear power.
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Purchased at the Women of Color Zine Symposium in 2012.
Table of contents: title: I --; title: Women of color : no place in mainstream feminism?  --; title: The "or" versus the "and" - women of color and mainstream feminism --; title: Pass the mic : transgender women in Chocolate City tell their stories   --; title: II --; title: Arab feminism : left out in the cold  --; title: Meet the heroic women who sparked Arab Spring --; title: Islamophobia in transnational feminist discourses --; title: Afghanistan : girl power  --; title: The rising voices of Arab women - from social activism to eco-feminism --; title: Feminist group reclaiming gender roles in Lebanon --; title: Nigerian womyn speak the truth --; title: III --; title: Uganda : urgent plea from women activists  --; title: Delfina Gochez Fernandez --; title: Filipino women protest with thousands in Occupy Wall Street  --; title: Fukushima : women occupy nuclear power to rebirth Japan --; title: After Fukushima nuclear disaster Japanese moms create their own occupy movement Veracel Celulose --; title: Occupy Montreal - FDO/WDO and IWA speak out --; title: United against the war on women --