Political solidarity, not natural affinity, must ground feminist sisterhood

Evidence

1n1st practice of “solidarity” had any valence whatsoever, it could not be grounded in the ur.- of feminism, progressivism, liberalism, or Is.. lamism, but could only ensue within the uncertain, at times opaque, condi.. tions of intimate and uncomfortable encounters in all their eventuality. I say this not to resurrect a redemptive narrative of anthropological reckoning or universal humanism that claims the power to break through the thicket of prejudices and find a common human essence . To do so would be to reduce yet again all that remains irreconcilable into the trope of a shared humanity and its assumed teleological futurity. Rather what I mean to gesture at is a mode of encountering the Other which does not assume that in the process of cultur.. ally translating other lifeworlds one’s own certainty about how the world should proceed can remain stable. This attitude requires the virtue of humil.. ity: a sense that one does not always know wha one opposes and that a politi.. cal vision at times has to admit its own fi itude in order to even comprehend what it has sought to oppose. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1311 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The sisterhood that is necessary for the making of feminist revolution can be achieved only when all women disengage themselves from the hostility, jealousy, and competition with one another that has kept us vulnerable, weak, and unable to envision new realities. That sisterhood cannot be forged by the mere saying of words. It is the outcome of continued growth and change. It is a goal to be reached, a process of becoming. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 457 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Genuine feminist emancipation does not reduce love but deepens mutual understanding between equals. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 616; Solidarity must emerge from uncomfortable encounters, not shared liberal presuppositions — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 1311; A dominant group’s feminism can shut down solidarity by erasing Muslim women’s agency — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 574 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Solidarity must emerge from uncomfortable encounters, not shared liberal presuppositions #corroborates (0.90) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1311
• Shared political interests should ground mobilization, not pre-existing identities #corroborates (0.88)
• Sisterhood is a process of becoming rather than a verbal declaration. #corroborates (0.86) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 457
• White feminists dismissed race talk to preserve a unified sisterhood #exemplifies (0.85) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 16
• A dominant group’s feminism can shut down solidarity by erasing Muslim women’s agency #exemplifies (0.82) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 574
• Left solidarity requires heterogeneous coalition rather than unity or horizontalism #expands (0.78) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1743
• Identity politics needs supplementing by wider solidarity-directed struggles #expands (0.75)
• Genuine feminist emancipation does not reduce love but deepens mutual understanding between equals. #qualifies (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 616