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«Pink Patriarchy Pride Edition - The Perfect Survivor Problem»

https://www.swopbehindbars.org/post/pink-patriarchy-pride-edition-the-perfect-survivor-problem

— SWOP Behind Bars 🇺🇸

> Movements love survivors, at least certain kinds of survivors.

> The inspirational survivor. The grateful survivor.

> The survivor whose trauma can be packaged into a fundraising campaign.

> But the moment survivors become politically inconvenient support has a way of evaporating.

> It's the largely unspoken investment in what might be called the "perfect survivor." It shapes which voices get amplified, which stories get funded, which people get invited to speak.

> It determines who counts as credible, who counts as a liability, and who gets to define what harm looks like.

> The perfect survivor is sympathetic, compliant, non-threatening.

> The narrative confirms existing frameworks rather than challenging them, leaving the audience with the sense that the systems in place are fundamentally working.

> The problem is that real people almost never fit these narratives.

> Many survivors have complicated relationships with the systems that claim to be helping them.

> Some have criminal records accumulated while surviving. Some still engage in sex work by choice or necessity. Some return to underground economies because alternatives they were offered proved unstable.

> Some survivors simply refuse to organize their entire sense of self around victimhood - not because they are in denial, not because they have not processed what happened, but because their identity is larger than their trauma and they decline to perform otherwise for an audience.

> Movements that cannot tolerate complicated survivors will never build liberation for the people most exposed to violence in the first place.

> They build something that looks like liberation, uses the right language, and celebrates the right symbols, but quietly abandons the people who needed it most

> Liberation movements built on conditional acceptance do not dismantle hierarchies. They reproduce them with better branding. The logic of deserving and undeserving, of credible and incredible, of safe to platform and dangerous to elevate, persists.

#SWOPBehindBars #RescueIndustry #Victimhood #Feminisms #AntiTrafficking #Survivors

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

"Drag dramatizes and makes explicit mundane, everyday gender rituals and, through this repetition of gendered actions, suggests that essentialist presumptions about correct or authentic genders can be reworked (#JudithButler , 1990, p.338)."

‘To choose to appear as “female” when one is male is always constructed… as a loss, as a choice worthy only of ridicule’ (#bellHooks, 1992, p.145).

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/esharp/esharp/9/

#feminisms #performance #performativity #gender #authority #power #authority #LGBTQ

“The repeated stylizations of the body—everyday acts and gestures—are themselves performatives, producing the gendered identity of which they are thought to be the expressions.”(Alberti, 2013, p. 95)

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @history @histodons

#feminisms #performance #performativity #JudithButler #fluidity #Conquest #sodomy #LGBTQ #sociology #alphabetMafia #bias #Drag #NewWorld #Contact #sex

"Many societies take pains to #gender individuals with objects, tasks, and food, yet we repeatedly see that gender is not as important in the very young and the very old, and that gender is often most strongly marked when people are of reproductive age (Gilchrist, 2007)"
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-lgbtq-studies/chapter/intersectionality/ @patriarchy

#feminisms #performance #performativity #fluidity #sociology #alphabetMafia #bias #Drag