Post and Comment on Discussion Board #3
Please respond to all sets of questions below. The post should be 400-600 words (and can be longer). Your post should address all of the questions listed. For your responses, you can select quotes from the text or paraphrase the authors.
- In your own words, describe and explain Collins’ theory of an Afrocentric feminist epistemology. Why does she say it is needed, and what does it include? Reflect upon the #SayHerName campaign. Does this campaign use an Afrocentric feminist epistemology, and if so, how?
- Describe and explain Anzaldua’s overall argument about language and identity. Give examples from the text to back up your discussion. Do you agree with her claims about the importance of language to identity? Why or why not?
- One of the points of this week’s readings is that our own social position shapes who we are, how we know what we know, and what we can see. Reflect upon your own social location, the sites of feminist or other consciousness in your own life, and how this has shaped “how” you know. What are the “sites of knowing” that have been critical to your own way of understanding the world? If you could describe the different components of your own feminist epistemology, what would it include?
