Melalui feminisme, seharusnya kita dapat melihat gender dan jenis kelamin sebagai sesuatu yang fluid.

For example it's not about considering whether sex work should be legal, but how we can ensure the safety and security of women who are sex workers. She exposes the yawning chasm between what constitutes mainstream feminist activism and the urgent needs of women of colour in maternity wards, single-mother households, abusive homes, hungry families – and those of disfranchised trans people and sex workers. Apolitical approaches, or approaches that seek to deaden the resistant potential of artistic practice are merely another mechanism through which the status quo is reproduced. The abortion referendum in Ireland, for example, leaned heavily on the cases of two women of colour, but there is little mobilisation for the rest of the maternal experience of women of colour.All in all, this a welcome and powerful interjection in current debates, an excellent introduction to contemporary issues in feminist theory and practice and therefore valuable both to those new to the field and to those of us who may have been around for a while. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Dato che sto esaurendo lo spazio terminerò dicendo che Lola Olufemi affronta molti atri temi, dal cibo alla cultura del corpo, dalla politica nell'arte al genere e ai limiti del binarismo occidentale [TERF demolite in tre pagine e paragonate ai movimenti di estrema destra].We are instructed by corporate talking heads to "lean in" into a capitalist society where power equals financial gain. She appears didactic, naive and arrogant in her dismissal of years of activism thinking and hard work by many people. Dari kutipan itu saja, Lola Olufemi sebagai penulis mengingatkan bahwa masih banyak anggapan tentang feminis yang dibentuk oleh kulit putih. It's a great book for anyone who is already minimally engaged in feminism to, again, wonder about what brought them to it and what makes them stay. It highlights that feminism is not about our individual selves and what we think should be done about certain issues.

It covers a variety of subjects - sex work, immigration, domestic labour, transmisogyny, Islamophobia, art, consent, fatphobia, reproductive justice, and solidarity - from a Black feminist perspective.They seek not to eject white women from the movement, of course, but to point out how those women, because of their platforms and access, bury the needs of others. These issues could all be standalone topics for a single book, but Lola Olufemi deftly weaved these topics together in a short, concise and incredibly accessible read to open up the discussion on all of these issues at once. Perhaps the most powerful thing that can be done is sabotaging the law-making project and refusing to concede that abortion is unlawful.