Our Blogs, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Women's Health Activism in Digital, Global Context
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Jessie Daniels, PhD gave a presentation on women's health activism in a digital, global context. She discussed how women's health activism that began in the US through publications like "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has now become a global movement. However, she raises questions about which feminist movements become transnationalized and by whom, and whether framing women's health as a movement exports a form of middle-class Western feminism. Daniels also questioned whether online women's health activism should be considered a form of digital labor.
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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
- 3. medicine a tool of empire
- 4. “pioneer” in gyn surgery 4
- 6. in the digitally augmented present
- 7. One mention of “Internet.” Zero mentions of “digital.”
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- 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
- 19. DC Feminists Demonstrate in Congress
- 21. Which feminist movements become ‘transnationalized’ and by whom? Is the control of one’s body a form of middle-class- feminism-for- export?
- 22. A movement? Or a product? Both?
- 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
- 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
- 28. raises a set of questions
- 29. is women’s health activism labor?
- 30. is online feminism digital labor?
- 31. Does framing women’s health activism as labor forestall discussions of race & colonialism in feminism?
- 32. Twitter: @JessieNYC #Berks2014 #fem2 Thank you! If you’d like to continue the conversation:
Editor's Notes
- 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....
- Please join the conversation here...
- 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,.
- Source: http://www.policymic.com/articles/33841/femfuture-the-feminist-revolution-will-be-online
- ...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
- http://www.publimetro.cl/nota/vida/emily-letts-la-mujer-que-grabo-su-propio-aborto-y-esta-orgullosa/xIQner!bx3Uh8W2VgLJI/
- http://womenthrive.org/blog/get-ivawa-trending-iwd2014
- 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
- http://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2012/12/the-bodies-bible-revolutionary-book.html
- http://hmprescott.wordpress.com/category/womens-health/
- 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