#of intersectionality flies out of the window

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[rjalker]

Intersectionality flies out the window faster than anything you've ever seen the moment white women and their accomplices think they have another opportunity to present themselves only and most severely oppressed people in the entire world, no matter how many other people they have to throw under the bus and however much evidence they have to ignore to do so.

[flagellant]

transphobic radical feminists will ALWAYS end up siding with racist fascists because their transphobic bioessentialism cannot coexist with intersectionality. they understand womanhood as innately oppressed due to its womanhood but that is an extremely myopic understanding of the world.

the reality of things is that there is no such thing as "women are always oppressed due to their womanhood and men are always oppressive due to their manhood" because the moment you stop viewing gender in a vacuum that flies out the window. the history of black masculinity is one where a white woman has systemic and oppressive power over a black man explicitly BECAUSE of how her whiteness weaponizes her womanhood and how his masculinity is turned into a threat BECAUSE of his blackness. the system of oppression relies on both the axis of "the predatory black man" AND the axis of "the defenseless victim white woman".

and then, of course, i specifically state that it is black masculinity which is oppressed by white womanhood, because white womanhood treats black womanhood as masculine. look at black cis women constantly being forced to face misogynoir--we have a literal name for the intersection of oppression--by transphobic white women who only understand womanhood as something which is antiblack in nature. the reality of how transmisogynistic white womanhood ends up oppressing black cis womanhood has been written about by black women since before the suffragettes. it isn't a new idea.

so of course TERFs are going to end up quoting Mein Kampf. their entire ideology is predicated on ideas of gender which advocate for white supremacy and have actively been a part of genocide since the beginning of white oppression of black people. it isn't a chance side effect, it's a common goal shared between the two groups.

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roundup of documentaries on YouTube I’m currently using in my Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities course

The Historic Women’s Suffrage March on Washington: This clip explains how the historic 1913 Women’s Suffrage March on Washington attempted to exclude Black women

When voting rights didn't protect all women: The suffrage movement didn’t protect all women’s right to vote.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry: Filmmaker Mary Dore chronicles the events, the movers and the shakers of the feminist movement from 1966 to 1971.

How the Anita Hill Hearings Rocked a Nation: "Their treatment of Anita Hill felt like once again she was being sexually harassed—this time in front of the whole country." Politicians, journalists and activists reflect on the earth-shattering effect of the Anita Hill Hearings and how it riveted a nation in 1991.

The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw: Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both.

Screaming Queens | Susan Stryker: It’s a hot August night in San Francisco in 1966. Compton’s Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, is hopping with its usual assortment of transgender people, young street hustlers, and down-and-out regulars. The management, annoyed by the noisy crowd at one table, calls the police. When a surly cop, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele, attempts to arrest one of the queens, she throws her coffee in his face. Mayhem erupts — windows break, furniture flies through the air. Police reinforcements arrive, and the fighting spills into the street. For the first time, the drag queens band together to fight back, getting the better of the cops, whom they kick and stomp with their high-heeled shoes and beat with their heavy purses. For everyone at Compton’s that night, one thing was certain — things would never be the same again.

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP: A documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect. http://www.unitedinanger.com/

The Scary Reality Of Sex Education In Alabama

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It’s August already and the summer is almost over. I can’t believe how time has flown. I’m not sure where June and July went. It feels like just last week that spring classes were ending and summer classes beginning.

School will be starting up again in a few short weeks. We’ll have a full cohort of students back on campus. The lines for coffee will be never ending and parking will be nowhere to be found. Life will definitely get more exciting.

Here are the suggestions from UCF Libraries faculty and staff to help you get back in the mindset for learning. They range from academic subjects to serious fiction to a favorite comic. Welcome to the 2017-18 academic year!

Click on the Keep Reading link to see the full list of books along with their descriptions and catalog links.

Chronicle of a Last Summer by Yasmine El Rashidi A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too--why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi's Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites by Alexandra M. Levitt Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them. Part homicide detective, part physician, these medical investigators must view the problem from every angle, exhausting every possible source of contamination. Any data gathered in the field must be stripped of human sorrows and carefully analyzed into hard statistics. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Do It Anyway: The Next Generation of Activists by Courtney E. Martin If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin’s rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world? Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell Being consummate fans of the Simon Snow series helped Cath and her twin sister, Wren, cope as little girls whose mother left them, but now, as they start college but not as roommates, Cath fears she is unready to live without Wren holding her hand--and without her passion for Snow. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice. Suggested by Christina Wray, Digital Learning & Engagement Librarian

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Kronisburg Claudia and Jamie, pampered suburban children, run away from their Connecticut home and go straight to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury, even though on borrowed time. Suggested by Jamie LaMoreaux, Acquisitions & Collections

Life of Pi by Yann Martel Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain. Suggested by Larry Cooperman, Research & Information Services

Lord of the Flies by William Golding The classical study of human nature depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys who are marooned on a tropical island after a plane crash. Suggested by Andrew Hackler, Circulation

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838, how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and driver, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

Originals: How Non-conformists Move the World by Adam Grant How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Suggested by Carrie Moran, User Engagement Librarian

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse The title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, “siddha,” which is defined as “achieved,” and “artha” which is defined as “meaning” or “wealth.” The word serves as the name for the principal character, a man on a spiritual journey of self-discovery during the time of the first Buddha. Siddhartha is the son of a wealthy Brahmin family who decides to leave his home in the hopes of gaining spiritual illumination. Siddhartha is joined by his best friend Govinda. The two renounce their earthly possessions, engage in ritual fasting and intense meditation and ultimately seek out and speak with Gautama, the original Buddha. Here the two go their separate ways, Govinda joining the order of the Buddha, Siddhartha traveling on in search of spiritual enlightenment. In order to complete this novel Hesse immersed himself in the sacred teachings of both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures and lived a semi-reclusive life in order to achieve his own spiritual enlightenment. It is a work that deals with the quest that we all undertake in some way or another, to define our lives in an environment of conflicting dualities and ultimately find spiritual awareness.  Suggested by Cindy Dancel, Research & Information Services

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. Suggested by Megan Haught, Teaching & Engagement/Research & Information Services

The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela History professor Natasha is researching the life of Imam Shamil, a 19th-century Muslim leader who led a resistance against Russia during the Caucasian War. She discovers that Oz, one of her students, is descended from the historical figure and also possesses his legendary sword. As their relationship intensifies, Natasha is forced to confront issues of her own Muslim heritage in the post-9/11 world. Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1, Squirrel Power by Ryan North Doctor Doom, Deadpool, even Thanos: There’s one hero who’s beaten them all — and now she’s starring in her own series! That’s right, it’s SQUIRREL GIRL! The nuttiest and most upbeat super hero in the world is starting college! And as if meeting her new roommate and getting to class on time isn’t hard enough, now she has to deal with Kraven the Hunter, too? At least her squirrel friend Tippy-Toe is on hand to help out. But what can one girl, and one squirrel, do when a hungry Galactus heads toward Earth? You’d be surprised! With time running out and Iron Man lending a helping hand (sort of), who will win in the battle between the Power Cosmic and the Power Chestnut? Plus: Squirrel Girl’s classic debut! Suggested by Sara Duff, Acquisitions & Collections