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• #1.   Crystal 03.28.2007

  Yay! Go “busta move” Doctor Doyle and retinue!

• #2.   Kat 03.29.2007

  That was a great panel. I commend the critical discussion regarding the exhibition and its placement within a cultural institution. It was such a breath of fresh air and truly placed this (the one given by the exhibit and its organizers) particular view of the feminist movement within such a context that made it tangle for us younger generations. Kudos to all the organizers. I hope this was recorded and will be put out as a podcast.

• #3.   Represent « Really Deep Thoughts 03.30.2007

  [...] Anarchism, Intentional Community, Race, Activism, Art, Politics, Feminism, Education, Buddhism. trackback Tonight I attended a panel discussion in which I could not get the space to phrase some simplequestions. This is not to say that I feel the space was not allowed me, nor anyone else, but that there were, at all the wrong moments (for my little question(s)), many other people wishing to share commentary. And so it was that I was not able to ask my questions of the esteemed panel comprised of Phyllis Jackson, Judith Halberstam, Yong Soon Min, Amelia Jones, and Jennifer Doyle. While my questions remain, I now have- at least- the ability to better articulate the ruminatory peregrinations that my mind made during the volleyed commentary between panelists and audience members alike. [...]

• #4.   cara baldwin 04.01.2007

  I retrieved my question penciled on an index card from the table last Thursday night for later:

  ‘what would happen if feminists embraced a global radical agenda that included class, race, land use and social justice needs?’

  I enjoyed the contributions of the panelists and the thoughtful, responsive and critical audience that literally filled the aisles of this talk. Reliably, the social possibilities of discursive spaces are impossible to fix, trace or realize in a moment. In my opinion, the feminist project of dismantling grand narratives and resisting closure still seems useful. With that in minde, the feminist revolution lives. The strategies and tactical engagement of the Black Panther Party, and radical queer, and feminist cultural production irrepressibly appear, and reappear as the most vital forms of resistance locally and globally—providing essential tactics and language employed by the recent Zapatista and anti-globalization movements.

  what if cultural and radical feminisms embraced?

  what would happen if institutional critique refused circumscription? what if it operated at multiple levels including the military industrial complex?
  http://www.colorlines.com/article.php?ID=114

  what if we used every opportunity for cultural expression to creatively address the material as well as conditions that effect women and women-identified humans?

  what if a fraction of an oppressed global population comprising more than half of its labor production and products found shared language and action for demanding social justice, liberation and parity?

  on the radically local and unfixed: nomadism and hybridity can not represent liberatory social value in a neoliberal and information-based global economy where flex and migrant labor is compulsory.

• #5.   Jenell Morrow 04.02.2007

  I loved this panel. I gained a lot from the articulation of contextual problems with the exhibit. I found this absence of narration difficult when visiting WACK!. It is also my contention, as suggested at the panel by Amelia Jones, that if we allow ourselves to be bogged down in the ‘who is included in the exhibit and who is not’ we lose sight of the politics which motivated the art. As with any ‘ism’ there is a particular political ideology/ideologies attempting to create change and shift injustices. I also thought the discussion of whether or not feminist art should be ‘center stage’ was a crucial and critical question for all of us to ask. What happens, in celebration or castigation, if feminist artistic expressions are displayed in mainstream spaces? I’m not claiming to have an answer for this question, but I do want to say that asking the question alone is important.

• #6.   Whack Art? No, WACK! Art + The Feminist Revolution « Criminal Slang 04.16.2007

  [...] Here’s a link to the full audio of Visual Culture, Race and Globalization: Is Feminism Still Relevant? a conversation between Jennifer Doyle (UC Riverside), Judith Halberstam (USC), Phyllis J. Jackson (Pomona College), Amelia Jones (University of Manchester), and Yong Soon Min (UCI). Moderated and organized by Jennifer Doyle and Judith Halberstam. This event took place on March 29th at MOCA Grand Avenue. [...]

• #7.   Vivian Price 04.24.2007

  I wish I could have attended this panel! The politics of how to raise critical questions about an important and historic exhibit is useful for many different arenas of debate.
  Please do post a link to the audio that really takes us there. So far the 4/16 promise of a link to the audio is missing.

• #8.   Naomi Greyser 09.04.2007

  I wanted to second Vivian Price’s request for a link to the audio. Please do post a link? This discussion will remain relevant to many doing feminist work: a durable link will help WACK! help our politics by expanding the panel’s contribution beyond the time and space of the event.

  Thanks!

• #9.   MOCA 09.04.2007

  Here’s a link to the audio of that event:

  http://www.moca.org/wack/?p=234

• #10.   Naomi Greyser 09.13.2007

  Thank you, MOCA!

• #11.   Hannah 09.04.2008

  This exhibition sounded interesting, but now that I’m reading about the panel, I’m glad I missed it. None of this would be even possible before feminism. You think leftist men care what you think? You think black men didn’t leave women behind — another version of kick the dog cause your boss was mean? I mean, how stupid can you be. Y

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