ELAINE BROWN
There is no such thing as a part-time revolution.
We’re not here for black liberation but for all liberation.
We didn’t come here for a better life,
or religious freedom [like migrants to US],
we came kicking and screaming.
We provided the conditions for people to bring about the revolution –
gave them free education, a free breakfast, access to a free clinic…
they have the human right to food, to health care –
we gave them the experience of something worth fighting for.
Are we breaking the glass ceiling to be oppressors ourselves?!
No. We have a common enemy.
Can’t see ourselves in competition with anyone else.
What is our agenda as women?
To find solidarity with the others who are suppressed.
PAOLA BALLA
Learn how to situate yourself.
Do not let your feminism drive your racism.
Mind and heart, mine is a matriarchal tradition –
you experience yourself as a part of others.
Activism is radical self-care.
It is a form of activism to thrive, not just survive.
Art is not living but living can be art.
“The world will crumble one day.
It’s ok. We know how to be poor.
We know how to live without electricity…”
– Rosie Egan
NAYUKA GORRIE
(of WOW/speakers)
To see your reality reflected back you.
Very powerful.
How much of my gender came out of a book? A ship?
The convent that beat my grandmother?
We need to consider: how is gender colonised?
Your black body is never quite yours in this country.
Hyper-sexualised vs. not attractive at all. Strong vs. not strong at all.
Used for labour (work) vs. in labour (baby)
A shaved head means either a Britney melt down (dysfunctional)
vs. fundraising for cancer (held up as a role model) –
What other personal reclamations can I make of my own body?
Keep this flesh vessel tight [runs regularly].
Doing well is resistance.
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