Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to
transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to
build communities to stand up to injustice and create social
change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing,
systems of violence and oppression?In an age when feminism has
become increasingly mainstream, noted feminist scholar and activist
Ann Russo asks feminists to consider the ways that our own behavior
might contribute to the interlocking systems of oppression that we
aim to dismantle. Feminist Accountability offers an intersectional
analysis of three main areas of feminism in practice: anti-racist
work, community accountability and transformative justice, and
US-based work in and about violence in the global south. Russo
explores accountability as a set of frameworks and practices for
community- and movement-building against oppression and violence.
Rather than evading the ways that we are implicated, complicit, or
actively engaged in harm, Russo shows us how we might cultivate
accountability so that we can contribute to the feminist work of
transforming oppression and violence. Among many others, Russo
brings up the example of the most prominent and funded feminist and
LGBT antiviolence organizations, which have become mainstream in
social service, advocacy, and policy reform projects. This means
they often approach violence through a social service and criminal
legal lens that understands violence as an individual and
interpersonal issue, rather than a social and political one. As a
result, they ally with, rather than significantly challenge, the
state institutions, policies, and systems that underlie and
contribute to endemic violence. Grounded in theories, analyses, and
politics developed by feminists of color and transnational
feminists of the global south, with her own thirty plus years of
participation in community building, organizing, and activism,
Russo provides insider expertise and critical reflection on
leveraging frameworks of accountability to upend inequitable
divides and the culture that supports them.
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