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Feminism & Brave Spaces
I’ve always been a feminist - I just didn’t know it or for better words, embrace it until a year ago. I’ve always been the one to stand up when I felt things weren’t right especially when it came to women. No disrespect towards women would happen while around me - I wouldn’t allow it. I feel like most of this stem from me always having to stand up for myself or the women around me - specifically black women. I saw no other choice but to defend them and come to their defense. Black women seem to be disrespected on a whole ‘nother level and I’d be damn if I was complicit in the situation.
I often would be told that I was a feminist for coming to the defense of my sisters and other women, I would reject the title every time. I associated feminism with white women. I felt that there was no place for me in feminism because, in mainstream feminism, there are no women who look like me. This all changed when I took a Gender in Pop Culture and a Black Pop Culture course simultaneously in the fall of my junior year in college. I learned about the overall history of feminism and the different waves and I also discovered all the black feminist scholars who paved a way for my Black feminist sista’s today. Upon discovering these women, I decided that feminism was for me and I had a rightful place in its history. Now, I’ve been learning what my feminism is and how I can incorporate that into my everyday life and help Black women along the way.
I never knew what a Brave Space was before WILL. However, I am grateful that we have them. Because of Brave Spaces, I’ve been able to learn and grown from the different perspectives around me. I am constantly being opened to new worlds that I never knew existed before and I’m always learning new things.
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WILL Fall 2018 Goals:
Build Community and find tribe
Connect more and glow closer with WILL Cohort
Find myself more and what I want from feminism
Learn how to use my feminism and change lives.
I facilitated the CONNECT Conference this fall. (I don’t know if that counts or not.)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurisha-whitlow-54652a97/
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sYErBi-bgErLRU7Q_0ZTnrfDQQBAfRujuOP8B8hjpdY/edit?usp=sharing
Above is the link to my Feminism Powerpoint
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