A Second Skin

for a moment I thought this was @evilrashida wow

Same

oh my god i love this

@venusisascending

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I keep thinking about something Spivak said. She said: “We all know that when we engage profoundly with one person, the responses come from both sides: this is responsibility and accountability… The object of ethical action is not an object of benevolence, for here responses flow from both sides.” The ideal relation to the Other, then, is an individual-to-individual level–an “embrace, an act of love”  I cannot stop thinking about how ethical work with unlearning only comes on an individual level. Like Spivak says, strategic essentialism is important in feminism– crucially important–it enables recognition of the problem. We must be able to inhabit and understand the social constructs, we are not “post-racial” beings or “post-misogynistic” beings, by any means, but we also have to learn to move beyond these constructs I think about how this applies to this site all the time People are interested in demonstrating how much they care about the Other– reblogging posts about violence that is done to marginalized groups– but that’s not the unlearning work they need to be doing Building intimate, individual, interpersonal relationships are, I think, the only way to move beyond