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I posted this in our facebook group but I wanted the profs to be able to contribute to conversation:
I was reading: http://blackatbrynmawr.blogs.brynmawr.edu/black-at-bryn.../
And a few things in emma's post really stood out to me. She writes:
This is in response to "Why I Hope to Die at 75".
I think the core issue of Emanuel's article is that it almost only takes into account the established norm/identities that are generally "invisible" due to their privilege (ex: I’m guessing he’s a straight cisgender white man). So, basically, everything that intersects with age is tossed aside in an oversimplified argument that I believe holds no validity.
Here's a short list of "isms" that can be found and/or underlie his arguments (and thus why we shouldn't take him very seriously):
Attached to the Castle:
Attachment Theory in Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle
I. Introduction
Nkechi Ampah
Identity Matters 360
The Cosby Show: Race, Class, and Intersectionality
Abby Rose
Identity Matters 360
Kristin Lindgren, Sara Bressi Nath, Anne Dalke
December 19, 2014
Mary at the Mütter: A Freak of the Night
“It’s not like it says SYSTEM on the Door”:
Capitalism, Aging, & Systematized Oppression
in Susan Nussbaum’s Good Kings Bad Kings
Rebecca Cook
360 Cluster: Identity Matters
December 17, 2014
Self Evaluation and Reflection: Rebecca Cook
Katie Hinchey
Identity Matters 360
Dalke, Lindgren, and Nath
December 19th 2014
#AllBlackLivesMatter: The Creation of an Intersectional Movement
Introduction
Your Money is Foul and So Is Capitalism: Why We Need to be Anticapitalist
“Globalization colonizes women’s as well as men’s lives around the world,
and we need an anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, and contextualized feminist
project to expose and make visible the various, overlapping forms of
sub- jugation of women’s lives.”