#IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx #IRLScholarAntonioGramsci #IRLPhilosopherJeanFrancoisLyotard #IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1FpwjrCSY #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #IRLActorMichaelaBoakyeCollinsonAKAMichaelaCoel #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC "Two women. A rather poor African-American, Mia. A rather rich white woman, Elena. And maybe a third, of Asian origin, Bebe Chow. Here is posed the duel, the duet, the face to face, but also the trio of Little fires everywhere. Simple, simplistic in appearance, in appearance only, because it hides all the finery of a theory that is much talked about today: intersectionality. I wanted to talk about this series taking place at the end of the 90s because it is indeed a pretext to evoke this so-called intersectional approach and why not woke. In my book on series I quote a word from the creator of 'I may destroy you' Michaela Coel. She says the following: In a few words here or with the characters of Little fires, the theory of intersectionality is inexorably invoked. This approach was forged by Kimberly Crenshaw in the 80s in the United States. Crenshaw is an academic, and she lays the foundation for this concept around the work of African-American feminism. She describes that the experiences of an African-American woman arise from an interaction between sexism and racism. An interaction that will reinforce discrimination. Black women are victims as a woman and victims as black. A situation which only potentially, of course, reinforces their poverty. The world is complex, discriminations plural, they add up to each other and Kimberley Crenshaw advises to fight against the standardization of lived experiences by people who are discriminated against. This is intersectionality: the interaction between different broad categories of discrimination which are social class, gender and race. And even also the issues of age or disability, for example. Intersectionality brings people together and in doing so, allows the interweaving of discriminations. Little fires everywhere takes us to the very heart of this paradigm. It brings out perfectly in the story the three main variables, the three main inputs addressed by intersectionality: social class, I said it before, gender and race. Already the differences in backgrounds are obvious in the series, and jump out at you. Elena was once a journalist, but thanks to her husband's lawyer can afford to slow down... Mia, she is on the side of artists and bohemians and ends up serving Elena. She will prepare the kitchen and do the cleaning for the white and bourgeois family. Bebe Show, meanwhile, survives as best she can with her job as a waitress, precariousness is rather his daily life. Beyond the professions exercised or not, it is perhaps housing that most marks the difference in social class: Elena's beautiful home with an impeccable garden, contrasts with Mia's rental apartment, which itself contrasts with the makeshift accommodations of Bebe Show. As if, at the end of the ends, it was indeed the dwelling which defined a possible way of life or not. As if beyond profession, beyond income, it was immediately a question of heritage. The series addresses many points concerning gender issues. Let's get to this one now. Sexual orientation is staged there via Elena's daughter, women's work too, between precarious jobs and a housewife, who became dependent on a husband's income. Maternity is also widely discussed. or rather ways of being in motherhood. Adoption, abortion, child abandoned for lack of money, maternal sacrifice, mental load of mothers... All these topics around gender, are quite delicately treated in this fiction. This treatment, often subtle, is often due to the fact of a crossover between all these diversely constructed families. Mia's child prefers Elena, Elena's lesbian daughter will willingly take refuge with Mia. It is in particular these mirror effects that allow the subtlety of the analysis. In this duo, even this trio, ordinary racism will often be introduced with more or less subtlety. Nice intentions will often be tinged with this everyday racism, actions, words full of prejudices and stereotypes. And then, structurally, it is staged a sort of hierarchy between the various communities. The whites at the very top of the ladder, then African Americans and finally Bebe Show, Undocumented Asian, freshly arrived on American soil. The whole point of the series is to brew at the same time, all of these variables simultaneously. Variables that must be understood as nested, ultimately. Intersectionality has this genius of no longer competing between discriminations. Discriminations must be considered at the same time. In these times when the word 'woke' is so decried, intersectionality gets a lot of bad press too. And yet, yet, it offers a fabulous reading grid for the various systems of oppression and domination"

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Aeriel A Ashlee, Bianca Zamora and Shamika N Karikari (2017). "We Are Woke: A Collaborative Critical Autoethnography of Three 'Womxn' of Color Graduate Students in Higher Education." International Journal of Multicultural Education 19(1). ^{[academic source]} specific paper: ^[pdf] #JournalInternationalJournalOfMulticulturalEducationIJME #IdentityWomxn

#TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #CatchcryRacismWoke #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #2018_WhiteFragility #WebsiteWokeTemple #IRLScholarJohnMcWhorter

#IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #IRLScholarOzlemSensoy https://www.catranslation.org/person/ozlem-sensoy/ #IRLHistoricalFigureDerrickBell #IRLScholarCherylMatias https://education.uky.edu/profile/cheryl-e-matias/ #IRLAuthorMichaelEricDyson ? #EDUUSIllinoisStateUniversityAlisonBailey https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2023/01/dr-alison-bailey-named-university-professor/ #IRLScholarRichardDelgado #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #ReasoningFallacyKafkaTrap #EpistemologyPositivism

#TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #CatchcryRacismWoke #WebsiteWokeTemple #IRLScholarJohnMcWhorter

#IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #IRLScholarOzlemSensoy https://www.catranslation.org/person/ozlem-sensoy/ #IRLHistoricalFigureDerrickBell #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #IRLScholarCherylMatias https://education.uky.edu/profile/cheryl-e-matias/ #IRLAuthorMichaelEricDyson ? #EDUUSIllinoisStateUniversityAlisonBailey https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2023/01/dr-alison-bailey-named-university-professor/ #IRLScholarRichardDelgado #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #ReasoningFallacyKafkaTrap #EpistemologyPositivism #WebsiteWokeTemple

"New study Fondapol The woke ideology by Valent1Pierre. This study aims to analyse the growing influence of this belief system on our Western societies." #AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitique ^[Wikipedia] #TauntWokeAgendaIdeologyIdeologue

#AdvocacyFRFondationPourLInnovationPolitiquePierreValentin https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-1-anatomie-du-wokisme/ And https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-2-face-au-wokisme/ #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #EDUUSEvergreenStateCollegeBretWeinstein #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu / #IRLSingerGeorgiaAnneMuldrow ^[Wikipedia] #2008_MasterTeacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieo6bp4zQw #IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose #WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay #IRLScholarPeterBoghossian #2018_SokalSquaredHoax ^[Wikipedia] And https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion (Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears, 30 October 2018). #IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault #IRLPhilosopherJacquesDerrida #IRLPhilosopherMartinHeidegger #TheoryRelativismCultural ^{[encyclopædia]} #PhenomnColonialism / #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #IdentityFirstNations #IRLScholarPierreAndreTaguieff #PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenment #PhenomnSkepticismRadical #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #TheorySociologyIntersectionality #IRLScholarMaryPoovey #OtheringDiscriminationRacismStructuralSystemicInstitutional #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #IdentityLGBTQIA #IRLAuthorDavidHalperin #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT ('race' translated as 'breed' here, which I assume is a language/translation discrepancy, rather than semantic one). "Fox News has mentioned critical breed theory nearly 1,300 times over a three-and-a-half-month period" (23 June 2021). https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/trumpworld-bets-big-on-critical-race-theory.html #TheoryRacialColourBlindness e.g. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41856 #TheoryMarginalisation #IRLScholarEveKosofskySedgwick #IRLScholarGayatriChakravortySpivak #PhenomnUnityStrategicEssentialism ^[Wikipedia] #IRLActivistHouriaBouteldja #OrgFRIndigenesDeLaRepubliqueIR Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. ^{[academic source]} #IRLScholarBradleyCampbell & #IRLScholarJasonManning #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #IRLAuthorDeraldWingSue https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/exeter-university-students-racist-whatsapp-suspended-facebook-law-society-investigation-a8264756.html #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #CatchcryCancelCulture #TheoryTocquevilleEffect ^[Wikipedia] #IRLScholarJonathanHaidt & #AdvocacyUSFoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpressionFIREGregLukianoff LUKIANOFF, G., & HAIDT, J. (2018). The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure. #IRLScholarStevenHorwitz #TheoryStockholmSyndrome #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo #IRLCommentatorAllyHenny #WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath

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Supplementary #IRLScholarDeandreMilesHercules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06C9fgtbNQ&t=17s "Woke in its initial inception meant political consciousness for Black people about the histories of anti-Blackness in this [USA] country and globally rather than this kind of more generalised political consciousness that it came to take up. One thing that I think is a very common misunderstanding about woke is the idea that it was derived from this phrase 'stay woke'. Woke itself is a standalone word. It's a word that conforms to the syntactic and phonological, which is to say that the sound system and grammatical principles, of African American English which has its origins in the South. 'Awake' is synonymous with 'woke' right, so one might say, 'I was woke about, let's say 7am'. The idea of 'wakefulness' as a concept referring to political consciousness stretches as far back as 1923, and then we see it going all the way up through the 1980s. Marcus Garvey in 'The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey' in the frame of what we might think of as black nationalist tradition where he says, 'wake up Ethiopia, wake up Africa, let us work towards the one end of a glorious and redeemed and mighty nation', he's talking about political consciousness in the same way as Laurence Fishburne's character at the end of 'School Daze' in the 1980s film. In 1962, a New York Times article by a guy named [William] Melvin Kelley 'If You're Woke You Dig It' writing about cultural appropriation and linguistic appropriation of Black language and culture by white people, specifically. As early as the 1990s or the late 1980s, you see it more attached to the idea of 'political correctness'. This is the point of which white people I would suggest, begin using it reflexively. And so it doesn't now just have the meaning of thinking about anti-Blackness from the perspective of someone who experiences it. More now it refers to this more general sense of awareness, as a marker of general political consciousness attention to such issues as those environmental, feminists, regarding ability and so on. Childish Gambino's song 'Redbone', canonised the phrase 'stay woke' for a popular audience. While Childish Gambino might understand that 'wokeness', at least in its original inception, has a lot to do with our awareness of anti-Black oppression. Listeners to the song from a variety of demographics all over the world aren't abreast of that history and now are using it, the phrase, in a way that destroys its meaning. But it has also been taken up more recently by conservatives. And it became used in a negative or pejorative fashion, right or at least one that is mocking or sarcastic. In fact, it's a well-known and popular tactic of conservatives to pick up and shift the meanings of individual terms, to then weaponize them. Mark Milley and Matt Gaetz arguing about what's woke and what isn't, whether it's good or whether it's bad, where that has nothing to do with the case of the Scottsboro Boys or Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin or Sandra Bland or Rodney King or Ahmaud Arbery or Breonna Taylor or George Floyd. I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a conscious process, but it's the result of the kind of consumption of Black culture, which has always had a lot of capital purchase in the United States and pop culture globally." (5 August 2021, #WebsiteBrut). https://www.brut.media/us/news/brut-vocab-why-we-say-woke--ccd9916d-c0e0-42a8-98c2-615d05ad8895 #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift #TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE #MetaphorWokeWakefulnessAwake #IRLActivistMarcusGarvey #ToponymAfricaEastEthiopia #IRLActorLaurenceFishburne #1988_SchoolDaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSvkZ0vLQ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt #IRLActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino #2016_Redbone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJnZsB52Es&t=73s #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMattGaetz #1938_ScottsboroBoys #IRLDeceasedEmmettTill #OrgUSEqualJusticeInitiativeEJI ^[Wikipedia] "Emmett Till Abducted and Murdered in Mississippi Delta" https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/aug/28 #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin #IRLDeceasedSandraBland #IRLPrivateCitizenRodneyKing #IRLDeceasedAhmaudArbery #IRLDeceasedBreonnaTaylor https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/stay-woke-history-georgia-anne-muldrow-erykah-badu-master-teacher.html #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009839021/uncovering-who-is-driving-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-in-schools?t=1627328036978 #PowerControlSegregationJimCrowLaws #_Focal

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And #WebsiteVoxAjaRomano: "Before 2014, the call to 'stay woke' was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point -- the notion that staying 'woke' and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 'stay woke' suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context : keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics." (9 October 2020). https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy #IRLDeceasedMichaelBrown #IRLPoliceDarrenWilson #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMissouriStLouisCountyFerguson #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2014_

https://shopyinka.com/pages/about-us #TheorySociologyIntersectionality

#IRLFilmmakerTravisBrown #2021_TheWokeReformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyG8MukuCY #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #TheorySociologyCriticalPostcolonialism #IRLPhilosopherJudithButler #TheorySociologyCriticalQueer #TheorySociologyCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #IRLScholarRichardDelgado #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw #TheoryCulturalImperialism #TheoryExnominationHeteronormativity ^[Wikipedia] https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1237 #PhenomnThePatriarchy #SlurWhiteSupremacy #IRLScholarPauloFreire #TheorySociologyCriticalConsciousness ^[Wikipedia] #MetaphorBlindnessDeafnessVsSeeingHearingTheTruth #PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression #TheorySociologySocialJustice #CauseEquality #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #MetaphorWarfareCultureLiberalEducation #TechICTSocialMedia DIANGELO, R. J., & DYSON, M. E. (2018). 'White fragility: why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism'. #2018_WhiteFragility #IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo and #IRLAuthorMichaelEricDyson KENDI, I. X. (2019). 'How to be an Antiracist'. #EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi #InvectiveAllCopsAreBastardsACAB https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/02/colorblindness-adds-to-racism/ #WebsiteEverydayFeminismJonGreenberg #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal #TheoryCultural

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Context "Believing Is Seeing: The 'Lens' Metaphor in Critical Theory": https://academic.oup.com/litimag/article/21/3/289/5539500

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Supplementary "Conflict theorists view social structure as inherently unequal, based on power differentials related to issues like class, gender, race, and age. For a conflict theorist, culture is seen as reinforcing issues of 'privilege' for certain groups based upon race, sex, class, and so on. Women strive for equality in a male-dominated society. Senior citizens struggle to protect their rights, their health care, and their independence from a younger generation of lawmakers. ... Conflict theorists believe that a society's system of material production has an effect on the rest of culture. People who have less power also have less ability to adapt to cultural change. This view contrasts with the perspective of functionalism. In the U.S. culture of capitalism, to illustrate, we continue to strive toward the promise of the American dream, which perpetuates the belief that the wealthy deserve their privileges." https://courses.lumenlearning.com/sociology/chapter/theoretical-perspectives-on-culture/ i.e. #PhenomnProsperityWealthInequality #TheorySociologyConflictTheory #TheoryIndividualismCompetitive #_Focal

#CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #HandleTumblrJayKyuvee.tumblr #TheorySociologyIntersectionalityFeminism

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Context #IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2020/6/explainer-intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters

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#WebsiteHeyIris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZrYUOBshcE&t=78s #CatchcryYasQueenAKAYassKween #TVBroadCity ^[imdb] #TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift

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Supplementary #TheorySociologyIntersectionality ^{[academic source]}

"Stand up for what you believe in even if it means you'll be standing alone."