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Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

June 2, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Analyzing the common experience of racism in everyday life, Patricia Hill Collins does not attack the issue from a purely academic stance, but instead uses her daily life experiences to inform her critique. In "The Social Construction of Black ...

Kristeva on Maternal Self-Mourning

May 10, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. In her 1977 essay “Stabat Mater,” Julia Kristeva prominently states, “A mother is a continuous separation, a division of the very flesh. And consequently a division of language -- and it has always been so” (all quotations from essay ...

I Dreamed We Were Free

February 15, 2016 • by Moises Ramirez

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. Reflecting on this week’s reading, I must admit that my previous relationship to the concepts of freedom and liberty was under-reflected. La Boetie wrote, “one never pines for what he has never known; longing comes only after enjoyment and constitutes, amidst ...

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Black Feminist Thought And The Pitfalls Of A Critical Mass

Kristeva on Maternal Self-Mourning

I Dreamed We Were Free

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