Speaking Up Against Othering: Making the Personal Political - I Finally Get It!
Originally published: March 26, 2012 Note: Since this essay, I have realized that I did not get it. I was still othering this white,...
Keeping Others From Doing the Othering: Awareness Leads to Change
“It wasn’t the white skin that I hated, but it was their culture of deceit, greed, racism, and violence,” Barbara Cameron says in “Gee,...
These Thoughts Remain Fragments: Piecing Together a Feminism in the Flesh
Fragments. Pieces. Ripped. Torn asunder. Melted in the fire of labels, of racism, of complexity, of misunderstanding. Pieces shed one...
Since Everyone Knows My Customs, Why Bother? Creating a Quilted Community
I am not at the intersection of race, gender, and sexual identity. I am a white, middle-class heterosexual, married to her first (and...
Colonize This! Our Mothers
They were women then My mama’s generation Husky of voice—stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors And...
Creating Family
Colonize This! Family and Community The third wave of the feminist movement that I belong to is different from the second wave of my...