Future Feminisms

Introduction

In Feminism is for Everybody, hooks writes,

“Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. Imagine living in a world where we can all be who we are, a world of peace and possibility. Feminist revolution alone will not create such a world; we need to end racism, class elitism, imperialism. But it will make it possible for us to be fully self-actualized females and males able to create beloved community, to live together, realizing our dreams of freedom and justice, living the truth that we are all “created equal.”

Suppose that sometimes in the future a non-patriarchal society does exist. Drawing from de Gouges, hooks, Anzaldúa, and the Zapatistas, describe what you think we need to happen between now and then for this feminist future to exist. In doing so address all of the prompts/questions below.

Prompts for Final Exercise. Please address all items.

1. What material and structural changes will need to occur?
2. What changes in consciousness and subjectivity will need to occur?
3. What role will men play in dismantling of patriarchy?
4. What role will sexual orientation and non-binary gender identities play in the struggle for and achievement of gender liberation?
5. What do you think the first steps are in the movement towards an anti-patriarchal society? In oher words, what do we do today and what is to be done tomorrow?

Steps to create the Final Exercise. Please follow all of these steps.

1. Re-read PowerPoint “Olympe de Gouges,” Class 2, “bell hooks,” Class 8, “Anzaldúa,” Class 9, “Zapatistas,” Class 10, in Moodle.
2. Look at your notes and your underlined texts of “Therights of woman,” Class 2, “Feminism is for Everybody,” Class 8, “La conciencia….,” Class 9, “In Moodle.
3. Read the “Zapatista Women Revolutionary Law” and “Indigenous Women and Zapatismo,” Class 10 in Moodle.
4. Look up terms in ‘Definitions of Sexuality and Gender,” and in “Intersectionality 101,” Class 8 in Moodle
5. Have an awesome discussion
6. Make an eleven-minute long presentation in any of the formats suggested below
7. Title every submission and include teammates names. The title needs to include your table number.
8. At the end of class today, please upload your notes, texts, PPs, Spoken Word written text, script for Skits, and notes, images and videos to the Final Project folder in Moodle. Everything needs to be titled (including table number) and include the names of teammates.

Possible Presentation Formats

Spoken Word, Skits, Video and image analysis, Power Point                                                                                                                            Other creative formats might also be accepted, previous consultation with facilitators

Presentation Guidelines