Day 2 - Global Fleshmapping: Reform and/ or Revolution?
Reform and /or Revolution?
July 5, 2011
We define “reform” as positive changes that may buffer some women, but operate within the existing Patriarchal power relations which hold men (both individually and collectively) over women
We define “feminist transformation” as revolutionary changes because they affect the fundamentals of those Patriarchal power relations (of the individual men and group men over women) toward an egalitarian and liberatory future.
And even if we think of this as a continuum with each on the extreme ends and not just opposites in a binary system, never the less we can consider that some reforms will be distracting and some will be on the road to abolition.
To be effective we must assess strategies (i.e. to assign resources):
Which of our current strategies are truly transformative or reforms worthy of our time and effort?
Other Events from Day 2:
Women’s Worlds Plenary Session: Breaking Ceilings
Solidarity March in Support of Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women
Read More From the Other Days of Dialogue:
Day 1 - We are Living in the Belly of the Beast of Patriarchy
Day 3 - Our Means Will Condition Our Ends
Day 4 - As Prostitution and Rape Marginalize and Oppress So Feminist Solidarity Resists
