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Joy, Rage, and Activism: The Gendered Politics of Affect in the Young Lords Party
Signs ( IF 2.614 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 , DOI: 10.1086/713295
Kristie Soares

This article examines the integral role of affect in feminist and decolonial social movements. Looking at the strategic interplay between two affective modes—rage and joy—in the Young Lords’ activism and organizing from 1969 to 1972, it argues that the organization was exceptional in understanding how affect animates and is animated by social movements. Specifically, the article focuses on the Women’s Caucus (later Women’s Union) of the Young Lords, which scholars have praised as one of the most successful examples of feminist organizing within the decolonial and nationalist movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The Women’s Caucus provides an early model of feminist organizing that emphasizes the important role that affects play in creating activist community. Their attention to affect allowed them to construct strategic ways of combining rage and joy that, along with making their activism sustainable, also paved the way for nonhegemonic performances of gender. The article argues that the feminist restructuring of the Young Lords in 1970, led by the Women’s Caucus, ushered in a more egalitarian organizational structure, in part through the way it centered the role of affects related to rage and joy in political organizing. As a result of this, the Women’s Caucus provided a model for decolonial feminist praxis that creates alternate forms of kinship, prioritizes care of self and community, and claims public space for nontraditional performances of femininity and masculinity.

中文翻译:

欢乐、愤怒和激进主义:青年领主党影响的性别政治

本文探讨了情感在女权主义和非殖民主义社会运动中的不可或缺的作用。从 1969 年到 1972 年,青年勋爵的激进主义和组织活动中两种情感模式——愤怒和快乐——之间的战略相互作用,它认为该组织在理解情感如何激发和激发社会运动方面非常出色。具体来说,这篇文章关注的是少主的妇女核心小组(后来的妇女联盟),学者们称赞它是 1960 年代和 70 年代非殖民主义和民族主义运动中女权主义组织最成功的例子之一。妇女核心小组提供了一种早期的女权主义组织模式,强调影响在创建激进社区中发挥的重要作用。他们对情感的关注使他们能够构建将愤怒和喜悦结合起来的战略方式,同时使他们的行动主义可持续发展,也为非霸权的性别表现铺平了道路。这篇文章认为,1970 年由妇女核心小组领导的年轻上议院女权主义重组迎来了一个更加平等的组织结构,部分原因在于它将与愤怒和喜悦相关的情感作用集中在政治组织中。因此,妇女核心小组为去殖民主义的女权主义实践提供了一个模型,该模型创造了替代形式的亲属关系,优先照顾自我和社区,并为女性气质和男性气质的非传统表现争取公共空间。这篇文章认为,1970 年由妇女核心小组领导的年轻上议院女权主义重组迎来了一个更加平等的组织结构,部分原因是它集中了与愤怒和喜悦相关的情感在政治组织中的作用。因此,妇女核心小组为非殖民主义女权主义实践提供了一个模型,该模型创造了替代形式的亲属关系,优先考虑自我和社区,并为女性气质和男性气质的非传统表现争取公共空间。这篇文章认为,1970 年由妇女核心小组领导的年轻上议院女权主义重组迎来了一个更加平等的组织结构,部分原因是它集中了与愤怒和喜悦相关的情感在政治组织中的作用。因此,妇女核心小组为非殖民主义女权主义实践提供了一个模型,该模型创造了替代形式的亲属关系,优先考虑自我和社区,并为女性气质和男性气质的非传统表现争取公共空间。
更新日期:2021-06-01
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