{"id":709,"date":"2018-01-17T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/?p=709"},"modified":"2018-01-17T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:13:46","slug":"disrupting-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/17\/disrupting-the-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Disrupting the Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my feminist practices is disrupting problematic comments or behaviors.\u00a0<\/span><!--more-->I disrupt by either describing what I am observing, asking for clarification, or asking questions. This is aligned with my guidelines of intentionality and transparency. Some barriers I have encountered as I continue to speak up are defensiveness in the form of emphasizing a lack of intent to cause harm or in the form of detailed justification for the problematic behavior; denial (ex: \u201cNo, it\u2019s not racist to say X.\u201d); and, what I find the most baffling, having my disruption be completely ignored.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I encounter such a barrier, sometimes I repeat myself. Sometimes I say \u201cWhat you are doing is wrong.\u201d Sometimes I am silent. I cannot understate the necessity of having accomplices in the room when I disrupt. Yes, I appreciate it when people tell me privately afterwards that they agree with me, or that they too found something problematic; however, if you are in a position to do so, speak up as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I disrupt, I am speaking even though my voice may be shaking. I am speaking, even though I may not have all of the information. I am speaking, even as I know that I may need to concede the space to other voices. I am speaking, even though I may need to rethink my position. I am speaking, even though I may need to apologize for overspeaking. I will continue to learn, and I will do better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Ariana\u00a0Orozco, Penn State Behrend<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my feminist practices is disrupting problematic comments or behaviors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[38,40,27,39],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminist-practices","tag-disruption","tag-intersectional-feminism","tag-practice","tag-transparancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalfeministcollective.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}