Angela Davis, born on this day in 1944, is a Marxist and feminist activist, prison abolitionist, philosopher, and educator. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway "Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism". She is the author of over ten books, covering topics such as class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.
Born to an African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Back in the U.S., she joined the Communist Party and, as a Marxist feminist, involved herself in a range of leftist causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War.
In 1970, UCLA's governing Board of Regents soon fired her due to her Communist Party membership; after a court ruled this illegal, the university fired her again, this time for her use of inflammatory language.
Praised by many Marxists and others on the left, Davis has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize. Davis has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Davis was Time magazine's "Woman of the Year" for 1971 in its 2020 "100 Women of the Year" edition.
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
- Angela Davis
https://legalform.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/davis-women-race-class.pdf Women, race and class by Angela Davis :feminism:
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shoutout to that period of time in the 2000s where literally everything on british tv was mean-spirited laughing at poor/fat/mentally ill people
a really cool thing for a society to be like
thankfully poverty has only got worse since then, and any state benefits that would alleviate it have been severely cut (in part because these shows bred that sort of atmosphere), so it's not as funny any more for middle class people to laugh at the poors
In the US, add making fun of gay and trans people and it applied
believe me, we had that too - we had shit like jeremy kyle, which was basically our version of jerry springer except it replaced the cruel humour where you're supposed to laugh at the people on stage with open disgust, where you're just supposed to hate them
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