#but I gotta disclaimer women are hardly the only category that felt betrayed after the first mandate
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Visit Tumblr Blog
Explore Tumblr blogs with no restrictions, modern design and the best experience.
Last Seen Tumblr Blogs
Fun Fact
The average Tumblr user visits about 67 pages every month.
Text
This one gives a general summary of the importance of women in the fight for the idependence of Mozambique
And for a more present context
#I would need to check for a more detailed breakdown of the post independence because most of what I read was through Catarina Isabel Caldera#Martins and a lot of the literature is in portugese only#I THINK I've read Desiree Lewis coment a bit on it but I read Desiree along with a collection of authors under Oyèronké's name#and I have embarassingly traded information of what I read on what#but as often with revolutionary movement everywhere#a lot of talk about how the liberation of women and of the land are deeply connected BEFORE taking power. not a lot of action after#but I gotta disclaimer women are hardly the only category that felt betrayed after the first mandate#and pulling back to the field I have actual solid knowledge of that is literature if you haven't read Pauline Chiziane she's a delight#this post probably looks so random context is I mentioned conversations I had with mozamvican women who fought for independence about this#tendency of colonised men to only oppose patriarchy when the pater familias is the colonizer but be quite happy to occupy the same position#himself in betrayal of colonised women of their own lands in a post about this as a larger phenomena#but it's true everywhere every year our left here claims abortion is too divisive and it's 'not the time yet' to demand it#thank you Worker's Party for all this nothing#.txt
31 notes
·
View notes