Daily Dose: 122

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

In a chapter called “class and the politics of writing” in her 1999 book Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, bell hooks issues us a challenge. “My writing was an act of resistance not simply in relation to outer structures of domination like race, sex, and class; I was writing to resist all socialization I had received in a religious, southern, working-class, patriarchal home that tried to teach me silence as the most desirable trait of womanliness.” What would it look like if you wrote or spoke or simply lived your life like that—as acts of resistance in relation to outer structures of domination as well as all socialization that you received? What would your voice sound like—voice in all its forms—if you refused silence as a desirable trait?