CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich discusses the condescension faced by feminist groups in the United States and the importance of throwing it out the window.
I was three years old when CODEPINK was founded, by women I still interact with on a daily basis. So I’ve been able to hear what sort of discursive battles they had to face in the United States with other “feminist” groups in the lead up to the U.S. invasions and occupations of the early 2000s. Media or politicians would show pictures of women in Kabul or Baghdad wearing hijabs and insist that it was actually the U.S. military that would bring them empowerment.
That notion is obviously, to us at least, rooted in racism, condescension, and quite frankly—misogyny. And I want to talk about the condescension part and how I feel it’s my responsibility as a feminist in the West, a part of a feminist organization in the West to throw condescension out the window, and what sort of political clarity it provides in incredibly important moments like right no
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