Green Feminists Unite!

My first entry.  As usual, my first entry will be concise, to-the-point, and basically just something to get that automated wordpress.com “this is your new blog” entry off the screen.  So, ta-da!  Here we are!  My new feminist blog.  I couldn’t help it, really; after working for a while on my food activist blog, I thought, I want to write about feminism, too.  But it didn’t seem right to incorporate it in a food activist one, so I just made another.  And with this one, I’m bringing “green feminism” back into the limelight, a movement that started in the ’60s and sort of faded after that.  A movement combining environmental activism with feminism, I thought it appropriate for the the likes of me.  That said, sometimes my entries will be environment-related and woman-related, sometimes it will just be one or the other…but my thought is that even when it seems separate, they are always intertwined.  Because feminism is about anti-oppression.  And that means all kinds. 

And, just a sidenote, some of you, my dear readers, may be wondering at this time, why isn’t this blog just say it’s about eco-feminism?  What’s the difference, anyway?  Well.  I don’t think, in terms of a foundation of ideas, there really (fundamentally anyway) is much of a difference.  But eco-feminism I think has a slightly flaky association for some, sort of flightly and more about dancing naked to the beat of drum circles underneath the full moon than about concrete political activism.  To those thinkers, I see your point.  Personally, I’m sort of into both (um, the dancing and the political activism.  Not too much the drum circles, though.).  But I wanted to just make this a little more concrete.  However, I have nothing against the term eco-feminism, I only think it’s been muddled in recent years to become a term that is unrelateable for many. 

Ok!  So, onward!  Tis the beginning!  Let us explore the issues that are increasingly encroaching on our rights as women and  that of the planet.  Toward victory!  Hip hip hooray!