OK, SO
Even after everything I've posted today, I'm still getting questions about my ~~feelings and ~~opinions about The Vagina Monologues. I guess I haven't really named them, per se, so I should chalk this up to not being clear enough. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues, just in case anyone wasn't sure.
The Vagina Monologues are okay and I'm okay with the fact that she's coming to my city to make this protest all about her. She's still transphobic, sex-normative, racist, colonialist, white supremacist and she is not my feminism. Ok? Ok.
If I have to really explain why I take issue with her appropriation of WOC's stories in order to perpetuate an image of men of color as "backward," her colonization of Africa and her transmission of singular narratives about African women, her usurpation of a white mainstream feminist voice, her gross view of what "liberation" entails, and her exclusion and and misrepresentation of trans*, genderqueer, and intersex people, maybe we're not ready to have this conversation.
Anyone wanna contribute any posts/writings on the subject?