Ideas on Ideologies

Working in the area of Gender as an African women has really got me thinking about "isms", "ists", "ies" and "mnt"

- patriarchy
- racism
- empowerment
- ideologies
- activism
the list is long

I work for a feminist organisation because of my affinities with the work they do: the defense and promotion of human rights for African women, but i am not sure i am a feminist.

I went to a feminist meeting and i came out thinking just like Latoya at Racialicious:

" if feminism is about women and is race neutral, why do I still feel like such an outsider? Feminism is supposed to be a refuge for women, but the kind of woman I am is marginalized or not represented at all. So now what?"

I don't know yet