Meta-Feminism: T-shirt slogans for gay white boys who love multiracial feminism
| October 19th, 2007A gay white male friend of mine — Perverse Adult of Ejaculations of a Perverse Adult, the sexiest blog since blogs came to blogtown — wants to get a t-shirt that would reflect the way his feminism is inspired and influenced by black feminists.
We’ve agreed “This is what a black feminist looks like” would not be the right thing.
He poses “This is what a multiracial feminist looks like.”
I pose “This is what a third wave feminist looks like.”
Neither feels right.
Maybe something like “White boys also want to smash / your patriarchal white supremacy?”
No, no, he says. It’d have to be a bigger mouthful: “White boys also want to smash / your patriarchal white supremacist capitalist imperialist heteronormativity.”
Okay, so maybe, “This is what a feminist looks like / Inspired by Cathy Cohen, Angela Davis, and Patricia Hill-Collins.”
Or maybe something else.
We agree that “This is what a femimist who has spent an inordinate amount of time attempting to reconcile Black feminist theory and the better parts of White male Queer Theory looks like” is way too much text.
What do you think my friend should put on his t-shirt?
October 19th, 2007 at 7:40 am
My idea for a wierd “play-on-feminist terminology” shirt.
Take a typical “women’s room” image. You know, the skirt-and-joined-legs one.
Add tall top-hat and curly mustache.
Caption: “Heterobizarritive”
No actual meaning, just reveling in sexual variety.
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October 19th, 2007 at 7:42 am
A picture of bell hooks with the caption “I just do what the black ladies tell me.”
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October 19th, 2007 at 8:21 am
i have no idea - but as soon as you figure it out, i’ll buy ten!!!
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October 19th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Whoops, wrong button. Let’s try that again:
Gay Caucasian
Standing Strong with
The Sistahs of This Nation
?
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October 19th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Robert - I don’t think it quite does it for her friend, but *I* would wear that bell hooks t-shirt. :)
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October 19th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I would buy Roberts idea as well. :) LOL. I think I might need to make a shirt like that… “A picture of bell hooks with the caption “I just do what the black ladies tell me.””
BTW love the blog…. I say as a former lurker.
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October 19th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
How about these?
This comment was written by Elaine Vigneault.“Feminist dick”
“Fuck sexism, racism, homosexism”
“I :heart: bell hooks.”
“Veto WS-CHIP!
WS-CHIP: White Supremacist - Capitalist Heteronormative Imperialist Patriarchy.”
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October 19th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
“Liberal Pro-feminist multiracial blogreader:
Generating literally dozens of hits daily”
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October 21st, 2007 at 2:40 am
I’d buy the bell hooks t-shirt… somebody make that and set up a web shop for it!
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October 21st, 2007 at 11:38 am
The organization Refuse and Resist! has a tshirt that reads, “I Used to Be a White American, But I Gave it Up In the Interest of Humanity.”
Maybe a variation — “I used to be a white american man”??
Thoughts?
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