I’ve been reading this piece again while trying to grapple with something. Those of us who arrived at our feminisms through a human rights “track” or thought process often have a lot of thinking and (un)learning to do about the institutions and systems we uphold and legitimize. https://twitter.com/sachp/status/1322042570512375808

Accountability mechanisms for human rights violations are so intertwined with laws, policing, criminal justice and incarceration that many of us have an uncritical, not-enough-critical or tunnel vision relationship with institutions of the state. And are often invested in them.

Same with the military and militarization. While our local feminist organizing has been a part of anti-war peace movements, there seem to have been some shifts, especially in the postwar period, with some feminists implicitly and explicitly legitimizing militarization.

This thread is going nowhere except for me thinking out aloud about whether we can recognize these faultlines within and across our movements and have kind and constructive conversations about them. Or if we are already too invested to even imagine alternatives.