Socialist feminism – a compass amidst an era of ‘ressentiment’?
The following is a recording of my lead-off at a Sheffield Workers’ Liberty public meeting on 15th October 2015. I hope you find it of some interest.
Tag: Intersectionality
Intersectionality and Marxism
Here is a podcast based on the lead-off that I gave at the 2014 Ideas for Freedom conference. I hope you find it of some political and intellectual use:
Privilege theory: a political impasse?
On the 1st May 2014 (International Workers’ Day) I attended a session titled “Intersectionality” at the launch event of the Free University of Sheffield. The strap line to the session – “checking our own privilege” – was a more accurate descriptor, since the session itself advanced privilege theory rather than explored intersectionality. Ideas on intersectionality […]
On privilege theory and intersectionality
What are privilege theory and intersectionality? And what’s the appeal? Privilege theorist Peggy McIntosh talks of white privilege as “an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank cheques”. The term privilege is seen to go beyond the concept of ‘economic class’ to enable […]
Anaemic On A Bike 