While academic legitimation was crucial to the advancement of feminist thought, it created a new set of difficulties. Suddenly the feminist thinking that had emerged directly from theory and practice received less attention than theory that was metalinguistic, creating excessive jargon; it was written solely for an academic audience. It was as if a large body of feminist thinkers banded together to form an elite group writing theory that could be understood only by an ‘in’ crowd.
— bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody. i think it’s only too obvious to many of us that a new, ill-informed mutation of this practice is taking place right here on tumblr. (via homemadepepsi)
— bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody. i think it’s only too obvious to many of us that a new, ill-informed mutation of this practice is taking place right here on tumblr. (via homemadepepsi)
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