❝ IF YOU’LL LET ME SPEAK, I’ll begin… Señora, I’ve known you for about a week. Every morning you show up in a different outfit and on the other hand, I don’t. Every day you show up all made up and combed like someone who had time to spend in an elegant beauty parlor and who can spend money on that, and yet I don’t. I see that each afternoon you have a chauffeur in a car waiting at the door of this place to take you home, and yet I don’t…
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❝…And in order to show up here like you do, I’m sure you live in a really elegant home, in an elegant neighborhood, no? And yet we miners’ wives only have a small house on loan to us, and when our husbands die or get sick or are fired from the company, we have ninety days to leave the house and then we’re in the street.
Now, señora, tell me: is your situation at all similar to mine? Is my situation at all similar to yours? So, what equality are we going to speak of between the two of us?” ❞
»"We Are Our Sister’s Keeper”: US Feminists at the 1975 International Women’s Year Conference, by Prof. Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
UN History Project
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/unhist/image-of-the_month/image_of_the_month_June17.html
❝ The Mexico City conference is often distilled into the synecdoche of an apocryphal confrontation between Friedan and Barrios…— an episode that never took place but that reflects the anticipated conflicts between liberal, First World, and white on the one side and Marxist, Third World, and non-white on the other.
Domitila’s book was when i finally understood why my blonde, blue-eyed jíbara Puerto Rican mother called #GloriaSteinem una gringa and her brand of #feminism, feminismo de blanquitas.
Domitila unionized stay-at-home mothers.
let me say that again: one of Bolivia’s most powerful #labor #unions was of #UNEMPLOYED WOMEN.
because, it wasn't just that the moment that miner died, the company would throw the wives & kids out of their homes. they had no health care, no sick days, no pensions…
and how could miners properly organize and then negotiate if they would spend weeks at a time inside those caves?
the women and children, left behind, had to do something.
and you can imagine, that didn't go down well. Domitila was not only persecuted by the company and their government bootlickers.
Domitila was victim of #ABORTION AS STATE VIOLENCE. she was tortured WHILE PREGNANT, which killed the fetus and almost her. after the unnatural abortion, she almost bled to death…
this is why, when i was blogging full time, i was barely acknowledged by the white feminists who got to get sponsored by NOW and were wined and dined by Gloria Steinem and Hillary Clinton.
the feminism of unionized stay-at-home moms fighting for MORE #welfare, for #UBI, for #medicare for all wasn’t the type of sexy feministing of hegemonic girl bosses.
so yeah. let the memory of Gloria Steinem rot it nevermore.
today, let Domitila light your revolutionary fires
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtgKYM9445w&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD
