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Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Women's Health Activism in Digital, Global Context
1. Jessie Daniels, PhD
Graduate Center and School of Public Health-CUNY
Berkshire Conference ofWomen Historians - May 24, 2014
Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves:
Women’s Health Activism in Digital, Global Context
17. argues that the Black
Panther Party’s focus on
health care was practical
and ideological and that
their understanding of
health as a basic human
right was prescient
18. had a huge impact
on the way women
thought about
their bodies –
began in the US
but has become
global
25. “We work for free and then pass this
on... (to younger women). We must
create a new culture of work, a
virbant, feminist economy.”
~ Vanessa Valenti & Courtney Martin,
The Future of Online Feminism
26.
27. “Maybe we can just be ‘weekend
feminists’ with day jobs managing
other websites or driving taxis,
but when writing about
feminist issues is what we want
to do for a living, why shouldn’t
we be able to?”
~ Elizabeth Daley
First, special thanks to the organizers…especially, Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Zoe Meleo-Erwin, Erin Siodmak and Lauren Manley.
This is a case where the delay worked out really well for what I’m talking about. Say something about the title of the piece....
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I want to situate this discussion… in a broader global context of health in which medicine has been a “tool of empire”
not in its abuses but in the routine practice of medicine…
http://www.east-harlem.com/mt/archives/000149.html
Women’s health activism has, traditionally, been about resisting the oppression of western medicine,.
...and it certainly can be, as in the Komen for the Cure controversy.
Source: http://www.thenation.com/article/166110/online-feminisms-big-win-against-komen-cure
From the conservative, anti-abortion, “Life Site News”
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-lawmakers-abortion-groups-use-nigerian-kidnapping-for-political-gain
From the “cloaked,” Teen Breaks site – which appears to be a reproductive health site, but is in fact, a front for a pro-life, anti-abortion group, includes interior pages about “post-abortion syndrome” – which is a rhetorical strategy of the right-to-life movement and not a medically valid clinical diagnosis. It is a digital version of a brick-and-mortar “crisis pregnancy center” – in some ways the Emily Letts video is the digital version of the “clinic escort.” My point being that women’s health activism – and the struggle around reproductive rights – is fully digital and fully embodied.
http://www.teenbreaks.com
2013 – Report sponsored by Barnard Center for Research on Women – heralding “online feminism” as the greatest innovation in feminism in 50 years…
Source: http://bcrw.barnard.edu/publications/femfuture-online-revolution/
Valenti is a co-founder of Feministing and they sent out updates about the report when it was released.
The heart of the #femfuture report is really about work....and a particular kind of work (paid, entrepreneurial, institutionalized).
The ‘dirty money problem,’ from within this piece:
“Discussion surrounding online feminism is not just about feminism, but also about women’s labor and the creative class, a group of people who add tremendous value to society, but often work without fair compensation. Money is the system we have here, money is how I buy my food. While capitalism is far from perfect and a product of the patriarchy, and while one wouldn’t want a big bank dictating how to run a feminist website, as one of my favorite bloggers (soon to publish a book) says, ‘bitches gotta eat.’
“All those who work–whatever that work may be— should have the option of, or a pathway towards compensation. Content isn’t inherently free. Why should women, many of us already facing glass ceilings and pay disparities, also be told that our words hold no value, when statistics show that we own the Internet?”
source: http://fakepretty.com/2013/04/online-feminism-femfuture-and-the-dirty-money-problem/
This strikes me as incredibly entitled and myopic.
From: source: http://fakepretty.com/2013/04/online-feminism-femfuture-and-the-dirty-money-problem/
So, given the ‘epistemological activism’ we find ourselves engaged in with digital feminist activism (or, online feminism), again we must ask, is this digital labor? if so, who should we look to for compensation?
Source: http://www.ma-associates.com/digital/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/digital-tunnel-wallpaper.jpg
So, given the ‘epistemological activism’ we find ourselves engaged in with digital feminist activism (or, online feminism), again we must ask, is this digital labor? if so, who should we look to for compensation?
Source: http://www.ma-associates.com/digital/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/digital-tunnel-wallpaper.jpg
So, given the ‘epistemological activism’ we find ourselves engaged in with digital feminist activism (or, online feminism), again we must ask, is this digital labor? if so, who should we look to for compensation?
Source: http://www.ma-associates.com/digital/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/digital-tunnel-wallpaper.jpg