{"id":1474,"date":"2021-11-09T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T18:14:53","slug":"intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/2021\/11\/09\/intersection\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERSECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s reading was really\u00a0great,\u00a0and I also love the fact\u00a0that\u00a0it is\u00a0all about intersections.\u00a0\u201cThe Combahee River Collective Statement\u00a0(1977)\u201d\u00a0<\/em>issued\u00a0by\u00a0The\u00a0Combahee\u00a0River\u00a0Collective\u00a0is an amazing and interesting book to read. It talks\u00a0about the \u201cMultiple oppression & sexual oppression within the black\u00a0community and\u00a0racism that is within the wider feminist movement.\u201d From the beginning of the reading, it talked about how a collective of Black feminists have been meeting together since 1974 and getting\u00a0involved in political work within their\u00a0groups including partnering with other organizations and movements.\u00a0These feminists were very committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression.\u00a0\u201cThe Combahee\u00a0River\u00a0Collective\u201d\u00a0<\/em>brings forth the idea that black feminism is \u201cthe logical political movement that all women of color face.\u201d The movement\u2019s genesis surfaced out after its members\u2019\u00a0dissatisfaction with other movements\u00a0for Black Liberation \u201cparticularly that of the 1960s and 1970s; Civil Rights, Black Nationalism, and the Black Panthers,\u201d which they see as racist toward their female\u00a0peers. The Black feminists let their voice out for social change concerning Black Lesbians and all women\u00a0of color to be heard.\u00a0A classmate snapshot\u00a0from\u00a0Raquel Hernandez\u00a0shows us some of the social justice movement these women fought for\u00a0in order to belong in the community. In their snapshot,\u00a0we see\u00a0a list of the social justice these feminist women\u00a0were trying to change\u00a0like\u00a0seeking\u00a0politics & representation, law & justice, right to their bodies & sexuality,\u00a0health & wellness,\u00a0less violence\u00a0& more power, etc…\u00a0These black women needed a sense of belonging and the right to do what they want.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Combahee River\u00a0Collective Statement\u00a0<\/em>also makes an emphasis on Black women\u2019s relationship to their own oppression and how it has shaped their identities like the said, \u201cWe realize that the only\u00a0people\u00a0who care enough about us to work consistently for our Liberation are us\u201d.\u00a0Through this embodiment of identity politics, especially their\u00a0queer experience, they will encourage a politics that focuses on the important need to Liberate Black women. At some\u00a0point, the Combahee River\u00a0Collective\u00a0was\u00a0unafraid to build\u00a0on their politics. Through these responsibilities to self-criticism, they \u201cquestion whether\u00a0Lesbian separatism is an adequate\u00a0and progressive political analysis and strategy\u00a0for those who practice it since it so completely denies any but the sexual sources of women\u2019s oppression, negating the facts of class and race\u201d and acknowledging \u201cthe psychological toll of being a Black\u00a0woman and the difficulties this presents in reaching political consciousness and doing political work which can never be underestimated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary\u00a0\u201cParis is Burning (1990)\u201d\u00a0<\/em>talks\u00a0about drag queens\u00a0that lived in New York and their house culture.\u00a0It shows how different groups compete in balls walk a runway\u00a0as if they were fashion models. These queens were judged based on several\u00a0things: they must be talented dancers, they\u00a0must be wearing the finest of fashion, and\u00a0they must look like the gender they are claiming to be. They are also judged on whether\u00a0they\u00a0can also portray this gender outside\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0world for people to see. A lot of people were interviewed, some were the leading light\u00a0of the ball scene. One of the people interviewed was Angie X\u2019travaganza who was the\u00a0founder of\u00a0the House of X\u2019travaganza. Angie was\u00a0a transgender singer & dancer and\u00a0a superstar within the ball scene.\u00a0Angie talked about how they adopted\u00a0several\u00a0street children who later became influential performers. The documentary\u00a0also talked about Pepper Labeija who was also as famous as Angie. She was a fashion designer and was basically behind many of the costumes worn by\u00a0contestants. Most of her performances had an Egyptian theme on them. Each\u00a0of the main performers in the\u00a0documentary talked about their lives and\u00a0explains the culture of the balls, and\u00a0their\u00a0importance to the LGBTQ+\u00a0and it\u00a0also explores gender\u00a0roles.\u00a0An important element of the film is the view\/study of how AIDS affected the leading performers and the ball contestants. At the end\u00a0of the film, we see the news of\u00a0Venus’s murder reaching Angie; Venus was strangled to death and Angie believed that it was a client who became enraged\u00a0with her and killed her.\u00a0Many of\u00a0the\u00a0contestants in the balls were all disowned by their\u00a0families,\u00a0which was why they had many houses popping up.\u00a0Each of these houses served as a second home for those\u00a0who were rejected by their family or suffered homophobia at home.\u00a0Paris is Burning gives an intimate picture of rival fashion houses\u00a0from contests for trophies to house mothers\u00a0offering support in a world filled with homophobia, racism, and poverty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s reading was really\u00a0great,\u00a0and I also love the fact\u00a0that\u00a0it is\u00a0all about intersections.\u00a0\u201cThe Combahee River Collective Statement\u00a0(1977)\u201d\u00a0issued\u00a0by\u00a0The\u00a0Combahee\u00a0River\u00a0Collective\u00a0is an amazing and interesting book to read. It talks\u00a0about the \u201cMultiple oppression & sexual oppression within the black\u00a0community and\u00a0racism that is within the wider feminist movement.\u201d From the beginning of the reading, it talked about how a collective […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-response-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}