I didn’t start CRIT simply because I found liminal and threshold spaces to be aesthetically pleasing (although I do); I started Crossing Rivers Into Twilight with an awareness and belief that such spaces, and growth in such spaces, are essential to positive social change and the development of an egalitarian society or societies. This awareness appears, too, in Sudy’s words about the severe limitations of mainstream feminism and its inability to participate in intersectionality:
if you’re appealing to mainstream, you will never fly with intersectionality. The sacred space of difference is an experience of intense joy and immeasureable pain. That grey is too in-depth for cool, “normalcy,” or a dollar. Mainstream feminism is the attempt to, once again, prioritize the needs and concerns of the few, and claim it universal for all. It attempts to water down the rocks so that most people can wash it down. Mainfemistream vocalizes the same objective of candied individualism that refuses to heed caution for others’ well-being. To sell feminism, someone, somewhere usually has to be forfeited in the process.
I want to publish words that forfeit no one and no experience. I want works that live in the interconnections and impossible networks. I want art that doesn’t sell but, rather, gives– even or perhaps especially if all it can give is survival.
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Tags: feminism, intersectionality, social change
