tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856381.post113874758492844755..comments2023-11-05T03:18:31.795-08:00Comments on Transit Mulatta: Coretta Scott King Dies at 78: "Leaves Feminist Legacy"Sombra Morenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00439353339689555785noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856381.post-1139177280044528892006-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:002006-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:00Yes, indeed!Yes, indeed!-el mapa no es el territorio-https://www.blogger.com/profile/12501777990167441079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856381.post-1138911838869548682006-02-02T12:23:00.000-08:002006-02-02T12:23:00.000-08:00Yes, Mapa-No, thanks for raising the issue/bar of ...Yes, Mapa-No, thanks for raising the issue/bar of our expectations for mainstream media. (I too have my suspicions about the assumptions that produce a WOC--i.e., woman-of- color--as inivisible.) <BR/><BR/>Here is more to chomp on. Lambda legal celebrates the CSK legacy in their newsletter, and quote her from a presentation in 1998: <BR/><BR/>"As an African-American woman, I am concerned about discrimination against my race and gender," she said. "But it's just not good enough to support human rights for one's own race or culture and then be silent about injustices to other groups. As long as that's all we do, our success will be limited, and we will be working against each other instead of with each other."<BR/><BR/>"I've made the decision that I'm not going to put up with homophobic bigotry because it's morally wrong and because it lowers human rights standards for everyone."<BR/><BR/>That's what we call thinkin' it through! <BR/>For more:<BR/>http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/documents/record2.html?record=265Sombra Morenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00439353339689555785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18856381.post-1138765262529885812006-01-31T19:41:00.000-08:002006-01-31T19:41:00.000-08:00Dear Annie Lorrie, Of course you are right about t...Dear Annie Lorrie, <BR/>Of course you are right about the difference in the ways that news reporting feminist vs. what, not-feminist? choose to honor Coretta Scott King as either her own person, an activist and political leader in her own right, or as a sort of domestic remnant symbol of MLK JR. But, and however, the feminist majority deserves to get critiqued also for their own representational practices, specifically towards not-US American women of color. On this regard, I will only say that I know everything I know about the F.M. from my sister Claudia who devoted a large chunk of her MA thesis to criticizing Barbara Bush's speech about Afghani women as part of some F.M. event. Anyway, we certainly do honor Coretta's legacy and we thank her, as we do all the departed souls that have blessed our planet, and we hope they will return to us and continue to struggle for an exponential increase in LOVE. I love you, increasingly.-el mapa no es el territorio-https://www.blogger.com/profile/12501777990167441079noreply@blogger.com