quiotgrrrl

Jules Ozone is an intersectionally feminist radical educator. She graduated from UMass Amherst's "Social Thought and Political Economy" program a year and a half ago, and currently lives outside of Boston. In college she facilitated a community organizing class for undergrads, which included subjects of privilege and oppression, identity politics, and social and economic justice through organizing. Julia’s passion is furthering social justice through liberatory education and she is looking forward to continuing that work in the Boston area. For more of her written work, visit her blog at www.quiotgrrrl.com.

Posts Written by Jules

On Being A Skinny Girl: My Experience with Body Image and Thin Privilege

As a woman, I face a lot of stress about the way that I look, particularly how much I weigh. I’ve been trained from an early age to feel like most of my value comes from being thin and pretty, and even though I’ve spent a lot of time intentionally unlearning those kinds of thoughts I still feel haunted by the feeling that I’m not good enough if I’m not skinny enough. Most women are made to feel like they should take up as little space as possible, and that the best way to gain attention from men and respect from women is to be thin. However, even though much of my concern with being thin comes from the oppression of sexism, many of those feelings also come from my privilege as a thin person. I’m terrified to gain weight because there are very real societal and interpersonal privileges I’ve always had as a thin person. I’ve always been thin, but I recently lost significant weight and became skinny. It’s hard for me to admit this, but I’ve been scared to gain any of it back because I don’t want to face how people would think of me and treat me if I became fat- I recently realized that that fear is how I know that thin privilege exists. (The term “fat” is preferred by many fat activists over “overweight” because it furthers the fat acceptance movement by “normalizing the neutrality and/or positivity of ‘fat’”.)

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How Can We Make Feminism More Accessible to “Women Against” It?

Since every other feminist is posting their thoughts on the whole Women Against Feminism thing, I’ll go ahead and do so, too. I’ve noticed that most other posts about this tumblr serve to point out the misinformed ridiculousness of the WAF blog (can I call it that?), and my initial instinct is obviously to do the same. Feminists, myself included, reacted to the blog by collectively face-palming and then posting sarcastic responses to our various forms of social media (even I have to get it out of my system), which makes sense given how maddening and insulting the blog is. However, I also feel that it’s important to take a step back and consider the implication of WAF. Clearly, feminism isn’t ...

Since every other feminist is posting their thoughts on the whole Women Against Feminism thing, I’ll go ahead and do so, too. I’ve noticed that most other posts about this tumblr serve to point out the misinformed ...