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cruelsister-moved2 · 1 year ago

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cant tell you how fulfilling and comforting it feels to be in a classroom full of women being lectured by a woman on the work of other women about subjects who are also women like i just got a small taste of what men are experiencing every day of their lives its intoxicating

#and she showed us her own work which was a response to the work of a female victorian novelist #and I got so excited because it reminded me of some other work I've come across lately #that excited me and I couldn't work out why #and it's because it feels like a secret 3rd thing for ways of knowing and academia #instead of either being wholly Within the thing and trying to replace it #or trying to Objectively report on it frm the outside and trying not to infringe on it at all #I cant put into words even but #I think its wht I looooved amy Jeffs work so much #thabk you ezra if youre reading this!!#and like ive been reading abt women's oral storytelling cultures again #and the way it's basically a proto-mixed media approach #and just completely outside of the binary norms of knowing established by both masculine academia and Folk culture #like it feels like a cliche to use this metaphor but women are literally weaving......#and like case in point the way all the roles in that classroom were so blended #it wasn't this obvious static unidirectional subject>observer >lecturer>student paradigm at all #honestly I know it's so easy to be completely hopeless but actually #I'm increasingly so excited about the potential of women to just undermine every single system and paradigm thay even exists #gerda lerner was right about that #but it's also overwhelming how basically everything is founded in patriarchy

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