resistance – Page 2 – Little Bristling Soul

Elena Ferrante

from cecilia vicuna’s saborami

Patricia Melzer in Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army

The feminist is the woman who is there not because she is his woman, but because she is the sister of the woman he is being a weapon against. Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her oppressor in a vacuum, alone. It exists to break down the privacy in which men rape, beat, and kill women.

Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death

amazonfeminist:

‘Remembering: A Time I Will Be My Own Beginning,’ Jeffner Allen. 1982.

(via lesbianseparatist)

Source: lesbianseparatist

I made this statement … that the law could be deconstructed. There is a history of legal systems, of rights, of laws, of positive laws, and this history is a history of the transformation of laws. That is why they are there. You can improve law, you can replace one law by another one. There are constitutions and institutions. This is a history, and a history, as such, can be deconstructed. Each time you replace one legal system by another one, one law by another one, or you improve the law, that is a kind of deconstruction, a critique and deconstruction. So, the law as such can be deconstructed and has to be deconstructed. That is the condition of historicity, revolution, morals, ethics, and progress. But justice is not the law. Justice is what gives us the impulse, the drive, or the movement to improve the law, that is, to deconstruct the law. Without a call for justice we would not have any interest in deconstructing the law. That is why I said that the condition of possibility of deconstruction is a call for justice. Justice is not reducible to the law, to a given system of legal structures. That means that justice is always unequal to itself. It is non-coincident with itself.

—D. Caputo and J. Derrida, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, New York, Fordham University Press, 1997, pp. 16-17.

“God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the mighty things"

—1 Corinthians 1.27

The resistance of the post-colonial is better defined by what de Certeau refers
to as ‘tactics’ rather than ‘strategies’. Strategy is ‘the calculation …of power
relationships that becomes possible as soon as a subject with will and power (a
business, an army, a city, a scientific institution) can be isolated’ (de Certeau,
1984: 36). A ‘tactic’, on the other hand, is ‘a calculated action determined by
the absence of a proper locus’ (ibid.: 37). ‘The space of the tactic is the space
of the other. Thus it must play on and with a terrain imposed on it and organized
by the law of a foreign power’ (ibid.).9 ‘In short, a tactic is an art of the weak’ (ibid.)

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement AND they want it to feed your shame.”

“Our bodies are not the ‘spoils of war’… a trophy to be collected to fuel your ego,” she went on. “It’s OURS!!! It doesn’t belong to you!! And when you take it without permission, it DESTROYS…… like a virus!!

Viola Davis re. Harvey Weinstein