CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Eighteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists:

“Exploring A Radical Feminist Understanding of Hierarchy and Class”

Well I’ll Go To The Foot Of The Stairs will be hosting the Eighteenth Carnival of Radical Feminists on Monday 15th September. This carnival will be a group effort, put together and edited by V (of resisterance), Laurelin of Laurelin In The Rain, and your host here at The Foot Of My Stairs, Witchy-Woo.

This carnival will abide by the usual rules, but will also be themed around a radical feminist understanding of the topics Hierarchy and/or Class.

We would like to ask for submissions of your older articles on these subjects as well as new ones, and we encourage the re-visiting of older posts for fresh analysis. We also encourage you to send in your recommendations for other media, and your favourite quotes, on these topics.

Posts which do not fit these categories will still be included in the Carnival, but we would like to use this opportunity to ask everyone to think and write on these subjects, as a community effort towards greater understanding of each other, of the world in general, and of radical feminism.

Just to refresh everyone on the purpose of the Carnival of Radical Feminists, and its guidelines:

Our goal will be to foreground posts in the feminist blogosphere which highlight or showcase radical feminist analysis, theorizing, process, events, politics, and ideas, and which celebrate and honor sisterhood as it has been herstorically envisioned by radical feminists.

We hope the Carnival of Radical Feminists will build the profile of radical feminist bloggers, will direct extra traffic to participating bloggers, and particularly newer radical feminist bloggers, and will build radical feminist community worldwide.

All submissions consistent with herstoric radical feminism are welcome, whether they are written by men or women, and even if the blogger does not specifically identify as a radical feminist (yet!).

We define radical feminism as follows:

• We believe that women are oppressed worldwide by patriarchy, the “rule of the fathers”;
• We seek to abolish patriarchy;
• We understand patriarchy to be a system of structures and institutions created by men in order to sustain and recreate male power and female subordination. The structures of patriarchy include, but are not limited to, the law, medicine, religion and the traditional family;
• Women’s oppression is rooted in both the structures of our society and in capitalism and white supremacy. Patriarchy includes not only male rule but also heterosexual imperialism and sexism (Charlotte Bunch);
• In order to abolish patriarchy, we must challenge its root components and causes which we locate in oppression of females by males;
• We believe that the uprooting of sexism simultaneously inaugurates the uprooting of racism, class hatred, homophobia, lesbophobia, transphobia, ageism, ableism, competition, hierarchy, ecological disaster, and economic exploitation of all kinds;
• The revolutions, so-called, which the world has known to date, have been coups-d’etat between men which have pruned certain branches but have left the root embedded for the sake of preserving male privilege over all women (Robin Morgan);
• We are a journey of women becoming. We do not seek reconciliation with the fathers; rather, we affirm our original birth, our original source, movement, surge of living. We Re-member our Selves (Mary Daly);
• We are woman-identified and woman-centered. We put women first, not only in our politics but in our personal lives;
• The expression of our politics is concrete: we oppose pornography, prostitution, the institution of marriage and the traditional family, sadomasochism, compulsory heterosexuality, gender coercion, and dominance hierarchies of all kinds; we endorse, support and work to envision and create peaceful, respectful, noncoercive, relationships, structures and institutions which affirm the importance of all human beings, all creatures, and the earth;
• We affirm lesbianism and lesbian separatism as revolutionary paths for all women who choose them.
• We understand gender as a structure and system of subordination, and as such, we seek its eradication.
• We pursue and celebrate sisterhood.

Any submission containing ad hominem (personal) attacks on other radical feminists, will not be published. We will also not publish posts from blogs which have spent any significant amount of the time leading up to the carnival publishing personal attacks and slanders on other radical feminists. This carnival is an opportunity for people to communicate, to explore, and to learn, so please enter it with those in mind.

Please enter your articles using the Blog Carnival Submission Form.

Thank you.