social movements
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The truth is that being a politician.. is to be subject to many limitations.
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Some of the ways we have been programmed to think about the world are wrong and we should directly challenge them. Even when we’re termed as “unprofessional” or “angry” or “uptight”, we must move the conversation beyond what society deems as a respectable place to end it. We must advocate for an utopia long and…
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We aren’t just our race, or our gender, or our social class, or our age, or our sexual orientation, or any other social markers we use to describe ourselves. We’re more than that, and then some. That is what intersectionality seeks to promote.
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“…everybody has an identity – even those who don’t think they do. The extent to which one prioritizes one identity over the other is a matter of preference more than anything else.”
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This is the natural consequence of oppression – even when no physical agents are present, they have done enough work to ensure that the oppressed can oppress themselves.
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When we vote, we have our say. We can either let out our grievances, or we can commend the incumbents on a job well done. We bring in new voices to the political arena, or we send other voices packing. There is tremendous power in exercising our democratic right to vote.
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For the past week or so, my favourite question to ask people is – how did you end up deciding who to vote for?
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“For a movement to work, it requires a plurality of voices singing to one chorus – and changing the words midway if they serve as a hindrance to the overall goal.”
wiseMusings 