In a week that included such stories concerning women as the vice presidential debate, in which Kamala Harris walked the line between strength and not being seen as an angry black woman; in which four out of nine Nobel prizes were won by women, three of them in chemistry and physics (and with the Peace Prize won by an organization and a movement, women actually won half of the individual prizes); and the arrest of 13 men accused of plotting to kidnap and murder Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer after months of protests of her COVID-19 policy with strong misogynist overtones — in such a week, one would expect a WoW diary to have plenty to occupy it without bringing in anything else.
But I read an article in The Nation that discusses a problem I want to look at in some depth, about what happens when movements that both are vital to women clash and seem to contradict each other. It’s the difference between trying to address a problem within existing structures when those structures are harmful to marginalized groups and need to be reimagined.