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WHO needs feminism? The short answer to this question is everyone.
This and the issues involved were discussed when a panel of inspirational women came together to celebrate the launch of a new book titled,
The Futures of Feminism written by the University of Huddersfield s Professor Emerita of Politics, Valerie Bryson.
Professor Bryson has published extensively on feminist theory and politics and was accompanied on the panel by activist and actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, ambassador for the Jo Cox Foundation Kim Leadbeater MBE and the University s Director of the None In Three (Ni3) global research centre, Professor Adele Jones OBE.
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If we are to find any sort of collectivity, it must be forged through amplification of women’s voices, experiences, and standpoints
Less than a week ago, International Women’s Day was upon us. Suddenly, women were everywhere. Or had they always been and I missed something? I have mixed feelings of the “on the one hand. but on the other hand” variety about this Women’s Day business.
On the one hand, just in this one week, I have received offers from a spa, a home goods store, a make-up brand and a jewellery store. Capitalism’s takeover of my female self is complete. But this is a tired critique for what might be a growing willingness to at least take the idea of feminism seriously.
Before our mothers spent Saturdays scrubbing stovetops to R&B classics they were girls children of Detroit, Brooklyn, Newark, and other Black cities across the country. It’s the desires and identities of those adolescents author Jasmine Mans explores in her second book of poetry, Black Girl Call Home.
“Tell me who my mother was before she was my mother,” Mans says, quoting her work. “I think that’s a very important thing. Often we see these matriarchs and we never consider that.”
Mans’ words cloak those the world dismisses as “strong Black women,” in much-needed empathy. “All of those women, from my mother to my grandmother, to Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison, we revere these people, but it’s important to bring them back to this most simple form: they are women,” Mans says. “They bleed, they got their periods, they cried, men left them.”
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