THEME POST 3FEMINISM

In this last blog post, I will write about something that is a fundamental piece in my life and that has meant a lot of personal growth: feminism.

It is no surprise to anyone at this point, or at least I hope so, that women and dissidents are constantly oppressed in this cis-gender, straight-normative and patriarchal system, benefiting men (not only in their personal space, but also in academic, economic , and others aspects)

With so many currents and strands of feminism, I mainly ascribe to intersectional feminism: I believe that all oppressions are a great network, that determine each other, but possessing particular characteristics, generating a network of interconnected oppressions. It is not the same to be a white and high-class cisgender woman, to be a woman or a racialized migrant and low-class dissent.

Patriarchy is patriarchy here and in any corner of the planet, but without a doubt we are all affected differently by having satins and physical and social characteristics from which we cannot discard as if they were clothes.

In turn, I link this with anti-speciesism. Speciesism is arbitrary discrimination towards animals, just because they are animals. Coincidence with patriarchy? I think they are connected. The speciesist consumption system (and capitalist, obviously) is based on the exploitation of feminized animal bodies, based on rape and confinement. It is the cows, the chickens, the sows, only female animals that are used for exploitation. Not the males.

This is why feminism is key for me: it gives us a painful opening to the world, but in turn, those tools to understand it open ways for us to change it.

Feminism will be with whores, with females animals, with trans and racialized people or it will not be!