{"id":5377,"date":"2015-01-12T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2015-01-12T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:28:35","slug":"feminist-movement-builders-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2015\/01\/feminist-movement-builders-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Movement Builder&#8217;s Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wluml.org\/resource\/feminist-movement-builders-dictionary\">WLUML<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Words matter<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Within the local-to-global context of citizen action, many activists and scholars agree\u00a0that we face a \u201ccrisis of discourse\u201d. Words that once imparted radical visions of social\u00a0change have been co-opted by more powerful groups, rendering them devoid of\u00a0their original meaning or politics. For example, when the World Bank uses terms like\u00a0\u201cempowerment\u201d or \u201ccivil society participation,\u201d they mean something quite different,\u00a0or at least far less transformative, than what activists originally envisioned. Since\u00a0feminist activists and movement-builders depend on the political meaning of words,\u00a0we at JASS decided to generate and claim our own definitions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The evolution of the JASS\u2019 Feminist Movement Builder\u2019s Dictionary<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">The idea for this dictionary originated with JASS Mesoamerica, where feminists and\u00a0women activists from different social movements found themselves creating alternative\u00a0terms to describe their context and strategies since old ones had lost their meaning.\u00a0Alda Facio, a Costa Rican feminist writer, activist, and lawyer with JASS wrote the first\u00a0version, Diccionario Feminista, in Spanish. Her goal was to \u201cfree words from the box or\u00a0mindset of the patriarchal paradigm\u201d. As JASS\u2019 work deepened in Southeast Asia and\u00a0Southern Africa, we quickly realized that we had all been searching for and \u201cinventing\u201d\u00a0new words to more accurately describe the contexts and dynamics of power within\u00a0which we\u2019re operating, and the myriad ways in which women experience and resist\u00a0oppression.\u00a0We began building the English version of the Feminist Dictionary to develop a common\u00a0language, history, and sense of purpose within the JASS community. As more people\u00a0contributed, we quickly realized the dictionary\u2019s potential as a vehicle for the political\u00a0act of defining our world based on a distinct feminist political perspective \u2013 one that\u00a0is constantly shifting and recognizes how distortions in social, economic, and political\u00a0power and privilege form the basis of inequality and injustice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Download Full Dictionary HERE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/feminist-movement-builders-dictionary-jass.pdf\">feminist-movement-builders-dictionary-jass<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the local-to-global context of citizen action, many activists and scholars agree that we face a \u201ccrisis of discourse\u201d. 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