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bell hooks: "Talking Back" and "Theory as Liberatory Practice"

Question Everything

Let us theorize!

"When an academic woman says, “I can’t afford it,” she may mean she is making a choice about how to spend her available money. But when a woman on welfare says, “I can’t afford it,” she means she is surviving on an amount of money that was barely subsistence in 1972, and she often does not have enough to eat. Yet the National Women’s Studies Association here in 1981 holds a conference in which it commits itself to responding to racism, yet refuses to waive the registration fee for poor women and women of Color who wished to present and conduct workshops". (Lorde 1981)

“In this capitalist culture, feminism and feminist theory are fast becoming a commodity that only the privileged can afford.”

How does feminism become only for the privileged?

-Feminist revolution

Inclusive feminist struggle

-sharing experiences

of oppression.

- empowering all women

to theorize for themselves.

- How is "Talking Back"

Resistance?

- Spirit

'Pushed into Silence'

Black Male Comedians In Drag Misrepresenting Black Women

-public versus private

-"right speech of womanhood"

-suppression

-punishment

-"fear of exposure"

Spike Lee VS Tyler Perry,

The Representation or Misrepresentation of Black Women in Film

Access to Feminist Theory by children.

Access to Feminist Theory in the Prison System

-Not to in any way equate prisoner's reading abilities with what is accessible to children, but if Feminist theory can rehabilitate prisoners, why are we not as a society making theory more accessible to people outside of the University, children of color in particular, before they have to undergo years of emotional assault?

“Just as some elite academics who construct theories of “Blackness” in ways that make it a critical terrain which only the chosen few can enter- using theoretical work on race to assert their authority over black experience , denying democratic access to the process of theory making- threaten collective black liberation struggle, so do those among us who react to this by promoting anti-intellectualism by declaring all theory as worthless. By reinforcing the idea that there is a split between theory and practice or by creating such a split, both groups deny the power of liberatory education for critical consciousness, thereby perpetuating conditions that reinforce our collective exploitation and repression.” (hooks,1994)

Bell Hooks on prisoners using Bell Hooks theory to unlearn sexism-

"I share this with you not to brag or be immodest, but to testify, to let you know from first hand experience that all our feminist theory directed at transforming consciousness, that truly wants to speak with diverse audiences , does work: this is not a naive fantasy." (hooks 1994)

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