{"id":787,"date":"2008-04-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-04-30T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T10:00:00","slug":"feminist-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/30\/feminist-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/10\/this-has-not-been-a-good-week-for-woman-of-color-blogging\/#comment-163358\">a lot of discussion<\/a> around feminism and racism in the feminist blogosphere of late, and for those wanting a primer on what&#8217;s been going on, you can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/009095.html\">Jessica Valenti&#8217;s apology<\/a> over at feministing, Seal Press editors&#8217; apology over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sealpress.com\/blog.php?p=http:\/\/www.sealpress.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/public-apology.php\">Seal Press Women&#8217;s Interest blog<\/a>, and important commentary from women of color bloggers including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2008\/04\/28\/the-or-versus-the-and-women-of-color-and-mainstream-feminism\/\">Racialicious<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/15\/standing-is-solidarity-with-my-sisters\/\">The Angry Black Woman,<\/a> for starters. <\/p>\n<p>While the issues are REAL, many who know Jessica (myself included) feel that she has been the target of some undue criticism (though also some that&#8217;s merited, as she herself acknowledges).  While the context is different, I still can&#8217;t help but think about the trashing that went on in the 1970s when a &#8220;leader&#8221; in the movement emerged.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s complicated, I know, but oh how history repeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion around feminism and racism in the feminist blogosphere of late, and for those wanting a primer on what&#8217;s been going on, you can check out Jessica Valenti&#8217;s apology over at feministing, Seal Press editors&#8217; apology over at the Seal Press Women&#8217;s Interest blog, and important commentary from women of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21351],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feminist-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}