Feminism

(The original image for the 'Zine. I attempted to represent as many identities as possible in as little visual space as possible, combining influences from pop-art and anatomical drawings. )

Written Work

At first, I found Waring's ideas to be very difficult to grasp--the article we were to read for class was very difficult for me to parse, perhaps because of my health difficulties this week. However, as I am watching the documentary on her work, I am profoundly intrigued. I had heard of news stories of her before, but had never seen her work in action. The facts and ideas I am drawing from this have sent me barreling down a new line of thinking. It strikes me that economics is fundamentally patriarchal and colonial.

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Love and warmth,

Rebca

In the video, Waring did a great job of accessibility. Physically, of course, she's out there and involved and talking beyond the ivory tower. But she also prevented all of this information in such a straightforward, easy-to-understand way, and showed well why it is relevant--how women are cut out by labels of economic value, how worldwide economies support unsustainable environmental practices, how out-of-control spending on war has become. I was struck by her logical approaches; she broke down quite clearly how the labor women in rural areas do is "economically unproductive" in spite of the numerous hours put forth into daily work (not including side pieces like childcare that follow along with everything they do, all day).

One aspect of this film that shocked me was the fact that women’s work in the home, the work that sustains life for an entire nation and raises the workers of the future, is not counted in the UNSNA. However, the income created by child sex slavery IS counted, because it brings outside money into the national economy. This statistic to me is exemplary of the blatant disregard and invisibility of women’s domestic work and one of the many severe costs this invisibility has. I wonder where else in the world this pattern exists (sex slavery valued over work in/near the home), because I’m almost certain it is not exclusive to the Philippines. 

I watched a Spoken Word performance called "God is Gay." It is a poem about the hypocrisy of religious people who say hateful things about gay people. The person who wrote the poem is a white cis male christian gay man. I'd be interested in looking closely at this poem along with an essay from "Queer Religion" which is a book written by Donald Boisvert. I'm hoping to find an essay that features somebody not as privileged, in order to talk about how power and privilege (probably drawing from the essay that Riva ewrote to talk about power) change how people deal with intersectional identities. 

For my intersectionality paper, I am strongly compelled to discuss the relationship between disability, class, and representation, specifically focusing on the story of Mary from the Mutter museum.

Mary was a little person of low income, as we can assume from that fact that she was found in a house of prostitution. Not only was Mary's body was taken and put on display without consent, but her baby's body as well. Mary's low status and physical abnormality somehow allows the Mutter and its audience to view her as an object unworthy of respect.

#lasthurrah

“One when women’s unwaged work is acknowledged and valued will women’s demands and needs be valued” (Waring xxvii)

- Ruth Todasco, International Women’s Count Network