Opengender

Hi, I am new in this forum and found it through Aileens Facebook posting. I wish to refer to two questions I asked in Furtherfield, http://blog.furtherfield.org
The first one was about if feminism was dead. The other one was about the uses of Facebook.
My first question got several answers, among others from Aileen and from Ruth Catlow, but I think still the question remains unanswered, at least for me. Yes, I agree, it was a provocative question, maybe a rethoric one as well.
For some weeks ago I attended the International Conference of Women in Black in Valencia, Spain, http://www.womeninblack.org, http://mujeresdenegrovalencia.blogspot.com and was surprised for the amount of women coming from peace groups or traditional political networks, but only a few definining themselves as feminists.
I am an old timer activist (four years in jail for political reasons in Latinamerica) and feminist, writer and other things. I feel the deep need of redefine the words and the strategies of the feminism and make alliances and forge new networks.
(That's because I joined Facebook, maybe a good arena for picking contacts and formulate new constellations).
During the latest seven years I have been visiting Palestine and writing aboout peace issues and women issues in the West Bank and Gaza. The women in Palestine don't call themselves feminists, but their behaviour and activities are deep related to the old feministic reivindications as equality, participation and autogestion.

Ana Valdés

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