"A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or non-sexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women’s strength. Sometimes loves individual men, sexually and/or non-sexually. Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist, except periodically, for health. Traditionally universalist… Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless."
A Womanist as defined by Alice Walker “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose” (via fleurdelalune)
Looks like I’m a womanist.
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I love this definition. I love Alice Walker.
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What beautiful words
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While I’d be hesitant to identify myself as a womanist, because of my understanding of that label as created by WOC to provide an alternative discourse to white middle-class feminism, the sentiment in this is beautiful and resonates deeply. Passing along.
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(Source: genderacrossborders.com)