The point that women’s autonomy is important to feminism only works when it is clear a) that this is not the only form of autonomy that is important to feminism and that b) the category of women, like any other historically contingent political identity, is riven by internal antagonisms of, most significantly, race, class, and cisness.
It’s not about everybody being the same, as liberal iterations of the politics have suggested. Autonomy is, in fact, primarily valuable insofar as political action is a place where antagonisms emerge directly, because people are not needing to tamp them down in order to defend themselves against larger violences, and ideally, can be dealt with. What do you think?
Rereading the "long cut" of our @pinkomagazine.bsky.social conversation, and thinking about Emma @riislover667.bsky.social's exquisite answer to what are now the questions arising from organizers at almost every Enemy Feminisms event - Qs about holding on to one another, resisting disposability...