Feminism, Interrupted

Olufemi, Lola

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“…If sexual violence is characterized as caused by women's behavior, (e.g., 'women are raped in the streets because they walk alone'), then designed outcomes will be limited and reinforcing. Yet by reframing sexual violence as a behavior that is enforced through our social structure through socialized aggressive masculinities (Olufemi, 2020), completely different outcomes are foreseen.…”

Section: Who Is Truly the User?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Structures Surrounding the ‘User’ in User Engagement: Gender-based Violence Design Engagements

Fiadeiro

Stevens²,

Bichard³

2023

Diseña

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User engagement is a dynamic social process influenced by who is involved and how. Here we argue that designers must account for the structural conditions of users’ lives, as they may have safety, accountability, and political implications. We review current scholarship in the area of user configuration and engagement from a ‘structural’ viewpoint of gender-based violence (GBV), to better understand such considerations. We propose three dimensions that might support designers in deepening their engagement in this area, namely: construction of the user, engagement within the context, and the designers’ position. We combine these dimensions as a framework to review and compare examples of designed outcomes for GBV prevention. This article suggests thoughts and questions to be considered by designers for thinking more structurally about GBV design, and for other contexts involving people experiencing vulnerability.

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Section: Who Is Truly the User?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Structures Surrounding the ‘User’ in User Engagement: Gender-based Violence Design Engagements

Fiadeiro

Stevens²,

Bichard³

2023

Diseña

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“…The rise of intersectional feminism has resulted in more critical attention being paid to white feminism (Olufemi, 2020); this in itself has been a point of contention for some feminist writers who reject or repudiate the idea of white feminism as well as the call for them to engage with intersectionality. Thus, intersectionality itself became synonymous with contemporary feminism, a feminism which many of the writers in our sample found wanting.…”

Section: Intersectionalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The problems with feminist nostalgia: Intersectionality and white popular feminism

Evans

Bussey-Chamberlain

2021

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Contemporary feminisms are ineluctably drawn into comparisons with historic discourses, forms of praxis and tactical repertoires. While this can underscore points of continuity and commonality in ongoing struggles, it can also result in nostalgia for a more unified and purposeful feminist politics. Kate Eichhorn argues that our interest in nostalgia should be to understand feminist temporalities, and in particular the specific context in which we experience such nostalgia. Accordingly, this article takes up the idea that neoliberalism and populism, which have given rise to both neoliberal feminism and femonationalism, have produced a series of contestations regarding the purpose and nature of feminist politics, as expressed by white popular feminism in the United Kingdom. This article examines two dimensions of feminist nostalgia: first, nostalgia for a more radical form of feminist politics – one not co-opted by neoliberal forces, not individualistic and not centred around online activism; and second, a nostalgia for the idea of ‘sisterhood’ – a time before white feminists were called upon to engage with intersectionality or be inclusive of trans-women. We analyse these themes through analysis of white popular feminism produced in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2020, cautioning against a feminist nostalgia which neglects to engage with the radical politics of intersectionality.

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“…The black feminist project will include seeking out and attempting to proliferate everyday practices of resistance to these processes and refusal of / disidentification with its subjectifying effects. The focus of the black feminist project then is activism and theorisation that insist on the need to elaborate the specific configurations of structural, cultural, discursive, political, economic (Olufemi, 2020) and psychic positionalities as they are locally embedded in the global (Mohanty, 2003) and historical. And it is from this orientation that we can discern black feminism’s ethical project as an orientation that reaches beyond itself.…”

Section: ‘Love Me Right’—or Elaborating Black Feminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This has been accompanied by older questions in newer and emergent forms, especially around complicating/destabilising the idea of gender via the foregrounding of trans struggles and queer of colour critique (Davis, 2017). Others have explored Black Feminism in Europe (Emejulu and Sobande, 2019) or considered the strengths and challenges posed by the conceptual toolkit available for feminist work, such as intersectionality, which Lola Okolosie (2014) has argued should become the normative practice for feminist work of all varieties, while Lola Olufemi (2020) has offered a profound analysis of the impact of black feminist activism and theoretical critique on status quo feminism.…”

Section: Respect1—or Introducing Black Feminismmentioning

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Once More With My Sistren: Black Feminism and the Challenge of Object Use

Lewis¹

2020

Feminist Review

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Recent years have seen an increased interest in black feminism. Whether thinking of the explosion of activism, the reprinting of classics such as Heart of the Race (Bryan, Dadzie and Scafe, 2018 [1985]) and Finding a Voice (Wilson, 1978) or the numerous journalistic or scholarly inquiries into black feminist formations in Britain in the 1970s–1990s, black feminism is a topic of interest once again. Sometimes it goes under other names: POC feminism, Womanism, Fugitive Feminism—each of which offers a specific inflection of this thing I am calling black feminism. Given this context, my aim in this article is to consider how black feminism might be conceived—what kind of an object it is, but more importantly how it might be ‘used’ and utilised as a vibrant and well-honed tool in the armory with which we attempt to craft a politics of ethical freedom. I attempt to draw together work from the theoretical archive of black women’s writing with that of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and his theorisation of ‘object use’ and ‘play’, as foundation stones in the development of a capacity for ethical relating based on the detoxification of racism’s effects on ‘self’, ‘other’ and the intersubjective field that the space between these constitutes. In my mind, the piece is a ‘call’ hoping for a ‘response’, the chorus is ‘black feminism’.

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Feminism, Interrupted

Cited by 102 publications

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Structures Surrounding the ‘User’ in User Engagement: Gender-based Violence Design Engagements

Structures Surrounding the ‘User’ in User Engagement: Gender-based Violence Design Engagements

The problems with feminist nostalgia: Intersectionality and white popular feminism

Once More With My Sistren: Black Feminism and the Challenge of Object Use

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