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Interrupting Patterns of White Feminism
White Noise CollectiveZara Zimbardo and Nicole Wires
SURJ National Political Education call -- April 18, 2017
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Agenda
● 20 min. Introduction, framing & presentation on:○ Feminist Solidarity & Exclusion ○ Recurring Narratives of White Women
● 5 min. Surfacing Questions● 10 min. Presentation: How These Patterns Show Up
Today● 10 min. Breakout Discussions● 10 min. Sharing Reflections● 5 min. Closing: Resources & Legacies of Resistance
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What is the White Noise Collective?
We explore how internalized white privilege and gender oppression intersect, and investigate ways this can show up, or limit the potential of, white anti-racism work.
We ground ourselves in the big questions of:
● What have been the role(s) of white women in upholding the system of white supremacist patriarchy?
● How can white women disrupt this system?
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IntersectionalityThe concept and reality that it is not enough to take on one system of oppression without acknowledging other forms of oppression that interlock and fuel one another.
Kimberlé Crenshaw Patricia Hill Collins
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Feminist Solidarity and
Exclusion
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First-wave Feminism
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Second-wave Feminism
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Does history need to keep repeating itself?
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Narratives Then and Now
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Captivity Narratives
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Virtuous Victim Narrative
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Tulsa Race Riots - 1921
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State Violence State Violence
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How do these patterns inhabit consciousness,
behavior, relationships?
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The desire to save...
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Looking away from privilege...
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White Fragility and White Women’s Tears...
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A desire to be seen as good...
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Cultural Appropriation
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Discussion Prompts
● What thoughts, feelings, and sensations come up as you listened to this presentation?
● Which, if any, of the historical narratives or interpersonal patterns do you identify with or recognize in your paid or unpaid work for racial justice?
● What opportunities do you identify for undermining or transforming these patterns and narratives in your life and work?
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A Letter to White Southern Women from Anne Braden:
“I believe that no White woman reared in the South – or perhaps anywhere in this racist country – can find freedom as a woman until she deals in her own consciousness with the question of race. We grow up little girls – absorbing a hundred stereotypes about ourselves and our role in life, our secondary position, our destiny to be a helpmate to a man or men. But we also grow up White – absorbing the stereotypes of race, the picture of ourselves as somehow privileged because of the color of our skin. The two mythologies become intertwined, and there is no way to free ourselves from one without dealing with the other.”
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Lillian Eugenia Smith (1897-1966) Marilyn Buck
(1947-2010)
Mab Segrest
Virginia Foster Durr(1903-1999)
Anne Braden(1924 –2006)
Frances E. Kendall
Peggy Terry
Ricky Sherover-Marcuse (1938-1988)
The Grimké Sisters (1800s)
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
Jessie Daniel Ames