What is a feminist community?

Table of Contents:

1. What is a feminist community?
2. What is feminist thinking?
3. What does feminism want to achieve?
4. What is Decoloniality intellectual current?
5. What are the domains of the colonial matrix?

What is a feminist community?

The Feminist Community (FemCom) is a feminist activist group composed of diverse students who are passionate about not only gender equality, but also their intersecting "-isms" associated with feminism.

What is feminist thinking?

Feminist theory aims to understand gender inequality and focuses on gender politics, power relations, and sexuality. While providing a critique of these social and political relations, much of feminist theory also focuses on the promotion of women's rights and interests.

What does feminism want to achieve?

The goal of feminism is to challenge the systemic inequalities women face on a daily basis. Contrary to popular belief feminism has nothing to do with belittling men, in fact feminism does not support sexism against either gender. Feminism works towards equality, not female superiority.

What is Decoloniality intellectual current?

Decoloniality or decolonialism is a school of thought used principally by an emerging Latin American movement which focuses on untangling the production of knowledge from a primarily Eurocentric episteme. It critiques the perceived universality of Western knowledge and the superiority of Western culture.

What are the domains of the colonial matrix?

In Quijano's seminal article the colonial matrix of power has been described in four interrelated domains: control of economy (land appropriation, exploitation of labor, control of natural resources); control of authority (institution, army); control of gender and sexuality (family, education) and control of ...