There is a lot of criticism of Emmas #HeForShe speech. Emma is a civilian, using her celebrity credit card to galvanize a discussion that is not just useful, or necessary, but also one that is long overdue. Women all over the world have spoken power to the same principles of Emmas speech over the course of history, long before there was a word to institutionalize a school of thought called feminism, in which women fighting for equality can find common efforts, matched to action. Women have always been on the front lines of independence as freedom fighters in the birth of nations, against colonialism, fighting for indigenous autonomy. Never has a man hit the streets in the name of social action and ever stood alone, there has always been women there, getting beat by cops and illegitimate authority, harassed, and arrested. Remember Alexander the Great was knocked off his horse and his reign of rampage in the Roman global acquisition of land ended with Candace the Empress of Ethiopia. That tradition of rich feminism has circulated from the battle fields Nubia in 25c, across oceans and continents alongside human migration. Rani Laxmi Bai in 1857 became the face of rebellion after she boldly fought back against British rule in India. Tell me where the United States would be today without the spirit of Sojourner Truth? Womens her-story is the consummate part of history, and it has been omitted, because when you teach someone they dont have a history, when you teach women they have a singular purpose, then you can control womens minds, and if you have the mind, the body follows. Emmas speech is just a speech. It is a rally call from a woman using her celebrity to echo what we all know in our hearts, that human rights are womens rights, and womens rights is human rights, and wherever women are denied their rights, humanity fails, and the theories which have actualized subjugation, oppression and dehumanization in all their forms thrive. Now I want to know how man, how all these men that make up the subtotal of the United Nations, how these so called leaders, plan to introduce and embolden civil society to act on the message of Emmas speech. Because I have heard so many parts of that speech spoken in action by women on the ground from Africa, Asia, Central, South America, North America, and Australia. I see women on the ground, girls fighting these principles every single day. I see indigenous women asking #AmINext. I see treaties, but I see nothing getting done, and its time we get undone so we get going in the direction of action to match her-story with an effort to build a new society grounded int he principles of all our speeches combined.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:41:55 +0000
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