{"id":3815,"date":"2020-12-25T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=143406"},"modified":"2020-12-25T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T09:00:05","slug":"how-to-navigate-talking-about-feminism-like-a-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/25\/how-to-navigate-talking-about-feminism-like-a-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"How to navigate talking about feminism like a pro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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5. Reclaim the concept of family<\/h2>\n

Establish that feminists aren\u2019t trying to take away or attack the traditional nuclear family model for those who want that; rather, they\u2019re fighting for different forms of families and communities to be included under that same umbrella of rights and protections.<\/p>\n

As Naureen Shameem puts it, advocating for \u201cthe bonds that hold us together\u201d is actually exactly what feminists are invested in.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamily is one of the ways in which a topic that\u2019s dear to a lot of our hearts is misused, twisted and warped by anti-rights actors to try to fulfil an anti-women\u2019s rights and anti-LGBTQ agenda. And with all of us [feminists and human rights activists] coming from this perspective \u2013 of a focus on the bonds that hold us together and equal access to social justice and rights \u2013 it\u2019s really unfortunate to focus on highlighting the way in which people are trying to change the narrative, to use terms that are important to us like \u2018family\u2019 to take away our rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, supporting access to abortion is \u201cpro-life\u201d because, without this, women will die from unsafe, underground procedures. On all these fronts, it is important to challenge the binary framing that would pit feminist movements against concepts such as \u2018life\u2019 or \u2018family\u2019, and to reclaim rather than surrender these powerful ideals.<\/p>\n\n

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5. Reclaim the concept of family Establish that feminists aren\u2019t trying to take away or attack the traditional nuclear family model for those who want that; rather, they\u2019re\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}