Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to nzlemming,
identity politics has had its day
It kind of has, it’s mutating. In her speech at the SF Women’s March Julia Serano, reframed it as ’empathy politics’:
This is not “identity politics.” If anything, it is empathy politics. And I am not talking about the shallow empathy of those who only seem capable of identifying with people who they perceive to be their own kind. True empathy is the ability and willingness to put ourselves into other people’s shoes, especially those who are different from us — not in a presumptive way, but to sincerely listen to what they have to say, to understand their circumstances, concerns, frustrations, and fears.
Empathy politics was covered by Charlotte Doyle in Salient Sept 2015.
But then again, responding to someone’s behaviour with a dose of understanding is worthwhile, because perhaps they’re not an arsehole, just a Mr Darcy.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Foucault’s ‘Society must be Defended’
Thanks for this Hilary. I felt this was well addressed in Lizzie Marvelly 's opinion piece over the weekend:
I hope that our differences will provide us with new and interesting perspectives. I hope that we will resist the temptation to "other" each other, and that we'll build bridges rather than walls.
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Up Front: Walk This Way, in reply to Rich Lock,
...I am saying that anyone lacking a respectable level of literacy might be...
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...and thank you.
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The Guardian broadcast the DC gathering live and have compiled a phenomenal collection of videos, articles and photographs of the event worldwide. Beautiful messaging, congratulations to all involved.
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Up Front: I Never Been ta Borstal, in reply to ,
Another revealing article. Despite the writer conflating male/man, the conversation does look to be shifting into a more intersectional gear.
"I think the reality is we do have this approach – particularly with boys, [as] I think there is a gender difference with parenting – of ‘Don’t cry, toughen up, get over it’. We expect our young to be tough and unfortunately that means we don’t let them be vulnerable."
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"There’s a whole generation of young males, particularly Maori males who have grown up in broken homes, who are constantly criticised no matter what they do. They’re constantly told they have to be hard and staunch and just suck it up and hold on to it and … it’s killing them."