https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud Conceptual Archive Concepts en-us 2021-04-15 00:24:51 UTC 2021-04-25 00:29:38 UTC hello@padlet.com shelbyl2 https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1418970954 Womanist:
Womanist is a rebellious figure to the mainstream. It refers to a woman whose practice and alliance is across lines of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sex, and national status. In such, a "Womanist" is a woman that has a loving perception towards other women, their cultures, and ways of being, and one who seeks investment in the well-being of these other women. This woman can identify with the conditions, experiences, and stories of other women because they are familiar with working across difference rather than letting it separate them from each other.
"Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender"
Walker, Alice. "Definition of Womanist" "Doing Theory."
(Shelby Marquand) ]]> 2021-04-15 00:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1418970954 shelbyl2 https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419010759 "World"-Travelling:
This concept refers to an individual's ability to shift from one person to another, similar to code-switching. The notion of "world" here can be an actual place or an imagined/socially constructed space, and there are worlds that individuals are most at ease in. "World"-travelling requires that one steps out of their world, meaning the place they are most comfortable and at ease in, and cross into other's by learning to identify with them. To travel to another person's world requires that you locate yourself in their life and lived experiences in order to understand how they view the world around them. By doing this, you will enter into their perspective of the world, coming to know how they perceive you and themselves, and this must be absolved of pre-existing or previously held assumptions about the individual you're attempting to know. The concept of "world"-travelling is a practice that will provide one with how to actually know and love women across differences of race, class, sexuality, and nationality.
Lugones, Maria. "Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception."
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]]> 2021-04-15 01:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419010759 shelbyl2 https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419013183 The Erotic:
The "erotic" is a lifeforce within all women that is present in every aspect of life. The erotic functions as an internal directive for how to live, in which it demands from us that we know our full capacity for joy in order to be present in the moment, to know what its like to "feel a moment." The erotic is a limitless, replenishing source of knowledge that exists on a feminine and spiritual plane, one which is used as a lens to scrutinize the world around us in accordance with our fullest capacity for joy and fulfillment.
Lorde, Aurde. "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," 1978.
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]]> 2021-04-15 01:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419013183 shelbyl2 https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419022958 Reproductive Justice:
The concept of reproductive justice moves beyond the pro-choice/pronatalist politics that choose to organize on behalf of one issue which is the legal right to abortion. Instead, reproductive justice is a framework produced by women of color that leverages a human rights framework to discuss a wider range of issues related to women's reproduction. Rather, a reproductive justice framework recognizes how women's reproductive bodies and health are compromised across the globe. Women of color, immigrant women, Third World women, and poor women are not afforded the same opportunities as white women to become mothers because of social, political, and economic disadvantages they face. While white women feel that the legal right to abortion is a pressing issue, a reproductive justice framework exposes the manifold of oppressions that condition the lack of control non-white women have other their bodies to create an all-inclusive approach.
Ross, Loretta. The Color of Violence, "The Color of Choice," (2016), pp. 53-65.
(Shelby Marquand) ]]> 2021-04-15 01:06:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1419022958 shelbyl2 https://padlet.com/shelbyl2/fx52ss0hxhwa0zud/wish/1455362229 A certified organic intellectual is a person that utilizes their epistemic knowledge and own experiences to produce theories about the world around them. Organic intellectuals are in-touch with the community, environment, and forms of knowledge that surround them in a distinct way, authorizing them valid ways of knowing. They demonstrate that the process of theorizing doesn't have to exclude lived experiences, culture, and ancestral traditions. The expertise of Third World women, Black women, Indigenous women, and other marginalized groups are instrumental in efforts to decolonize knowledge and theory. 
Levins, M., Aurora. "Certified Organic Intellectual." Medicine Stories. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2020. 
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