playing connect-the-dots

MY FEMINISM WILL BE INTERSECTIONAL OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT: "These three African women won the Nobel Prize IN SPITE OF YOU. In spite of your actively working to oppress them and fuck up their lives. Because if you live in a Western Nation, in your name, your State has been making these women’s lives miserable. These women have achieved something enormous, of epic proportions, in spite of the fact that the State you are part of, the State that acts on your behalf and in your name, has been crushing them for decades, perhaps even centuries. But in celebrating their achievements as a victory for feminism, all of this is erased. We demand their inclusion in our movement! SISTERHOOD! A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR SISTERS THAT WON THE NOBEL PRIZE!"

and then -

Women in Yemen Severely Injured While Celebrating Peace Prize Winner: "On Friday, Tawakkul Karman of Yemen was one of three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, at a march in her honor, at least 38 women were injured by men throwing rocks. CNN reports that the perpetrators were 'pro-government thugs.'"

oh. shit. yeah.

and because it's always worth linking again, here's a googlebooks link to Audre Lorde's essay "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism."