Class today turned into a real life example of what we had been reading about with the issue of incorporating and how NGO’s get side-tracked and lose sight of their prime goals when focusing on governmental requirements. As the topic of forming an actual Tulane affiliated club came up (I’ll admit, my idea) it became [...]
Posts Tagged ‘activism’
Clubs and Krewes
Posted in feminism, Uncategorized, tagged activism, clubs, organizations, tulane on April 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The Borders of Rape
Posted in feminism, theory, tagged activism, Borders, Education, rape, tulane on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been reading in class how borders affect activism. In the recent reading “invisible women” a group of women rely on their borders to construct their activist identity. They are Latina women from El Paso who, for the sake of defining their group, call on their identities as Mexican American women. The author says that [...]
Women to Women
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, grass-roots, Nicaragua, WCCN on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For today’s reading, we were assigned the essay “Women to Women, Dissident Citizen Diplomacy in Nicaragua” by Clare Weber. In this essay, she explains the efforts made by the Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua (WCCN). This council was a U.S. based committee whose goal was to end military intervention in Nicaragua in the 1990′s. The group focused [...]
A New Definition of the Erotic
Posted in feminism, tagged activism, Audre Lorde, Erotic on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Audre Lorde defines the erotic in an interesting way: “When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowlege and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history our dancing, our loving, our work, our [...]
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