Okay wait! I think I’ve got it.
Joy James’ captive maternal theory focuses not just on how our identity positions us in society but how dominant power structures exploit our labor then go on to either diligitimize or legitimize our resistance based on our identity.
I’m working to have more specificity in my understanding of a concept. I’ve noticed that sometimes in an attempt to understand something I end up oversimplifying it.
I’m still developing my understanding of the captive maternal theory through reading, but trying to put it in my own concise wording helps me process!
So, how I relate the captive maternal to the notion that “all skin-folk ain’t kinfolk” is that being oppressed in the same way doesn’t yield the same political standing. You can fill the captive maternal position but what you do with that depends on you.
The captive maternal speaks in part to the Black woman’s experience of exploitation but it is not exclusive to Black women. It’s a position defined by who is unrecognized, unprotected, and whose labor is exploited in a captive system
Intersectionality is so deceiving because it looks good but it isn’t attached to any concrete ideology.
Me about to go start a life and make babies with this man after telling every guy I’ve ever dated that I didn’t want a family.
Aggression towards non-voters is futile imo. Deciding not to participate in the electoral system doesn’t necessarily mean there’s an apathy towards politics. But succumbing to defeatism and doing nothing, is probably the most detrimental stance a person can take in a society
Great food for thought.
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I need people understand that understaffing isn't a bug of where you work, or your manager being a dick, but a feature of a system constantly trying to minimize its biggest cost (labor). Every place I've ever worked it's presented as a perpetually temporary problem. It isn't.
