Synopses & Reviews
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In
The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera demonstrate how Indimedia can break the hold of the corporate media over the news; and Jennifer Bleyer reviews the exhilarating power unleashed by the GirlZine movement. Anna Kirklands analysis of transsexual and transgendered people and the law is deeply thoughtful, and Shireen Lee's piece on women, technology, and feminism envisions empowering prospects for women..
Ranging from media and culture to politics and globalization, The Fire This Time is a call to new frontiers of activism, and helps reinvent feminism for a new generation.
About the Author
Vivien Labaton is a third-year law student at New York University Law School. She was the founding Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the only national young feminist organization in the country, and currently serves on the boards of Third Wave, Political Research Associates, and the Womens Funding Network. She lives in Brooklyn, New York
Dawn Lundy Martin is one of four cofounders of the Third Wave Foundation. She has a long history of activism in anti-war, queer rights, and environmental justice movements. A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, she is also an award-winning poet and author of the chapbook, The Morning Hour. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Foreword: We Are Using This Power to Resist
REBECCA WALKER
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Introduction: Making What Will Become
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
PART I CHANGING MINDS AND EYES: MEDIA AND CULTURE
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop
AYANA BYRD
An Independent Media Center of Ones Own: A Feminist Alternative to Corporate Media
JOSHUA BREITBART AND ANA NOGUEIRA
Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion
JENNIFER BLEYER
Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century
HOLLY BASS
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism
SHIREEN LEE
PART II NEW ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL CITY
Exporting Violence: The School of the Americas, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, and Resistance
KATHRYN TEMPLE
Domestic Workers Organize in the Global City
AI-JEN POO AND ERIC TANG
A Baptism by Fire: Vieques, Puerto Rico
ELISHA MARÍA MIRANDA
When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process
ANNA KIRKLAND
Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment
SYD LINDSLEY
She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex
ROBIN TEMPLETON
Afterword
Looking Ahead: Building a Feminist Future
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Coda
WILMA MANKILLER
Recommended Organizations
Notes
Acknowledgments