“I imagine that what I witnessed online in 2008 with Brownfemipower was similar to what many women of color feminists witnessed and felt during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when there were no blogs. When Audre Lorde wrote an open letter to Mary Daly in 1979, she acknowledged Daly’s intentions while also calling out Daly’s dismissal of Black women’s experiences in Gyn/Ecology (1990).
Lorde asked of Daly: “Have you read my work, and the work of other black women, for what it could give you? Or did you hunt through only to find words that would legitimize your chapter on African genital mutilation in the eyes of other black women?”
Lorde was addressing in print what feminist activists, who are often erased within the online feminist movement, continue to confront presently.”
- An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte | The Feminist Wire
Lorde asked of Daly: “Have you read my work, and the work of other black women, for what it could give you? Or did you hunt through only to find words that would legitimize your chapter on African genital mutilation in the eyes of other black women?”
Lorde was addressing in print what feminist activists, who are often erased within the online feminist movement, continue to confront presently.”
- An Open Letter to Amanda Marcotte | The Feminist Wire