Daily Dose: 50

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

The feminist response to war is to incite sedition and treason; it is to demand, in the loudest voice possible, for mutiny–against patriarchy. I am not a pacifist. But I refuse to be a combatant on behalf of patriarchy. Feminism demands that we destroy patriarchy, not other people in the name of patriarchy’s wars. The feminist response to war is to insist on connecting the barbarism of war to the barbarism of sexual violence in and out of war zones, to the barbarism of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence. The feminist response to war must demand that we connect all these “wars” as manifestations of patriarchal violence that on the macro level is often married to imperialism and capitalism and on the micro level jeopardizes our daily existence.