Notes Toward a Politics of Location

A part of Adrienne Rich's piece, "Notes Towards a Politics of Location", was on page 1097. She wrote,

"Wherever people are struggling against subjection, the specific subjection of women, through our location in a female body, from now on has to be addressed. The necessity to go on speaking where silence has been advised and enforced, not just the our subjection, but about our active presence and practice as women. We believed (I go on believing) that the liberation of women is a wedge driven into all other radical thought, can open out the structures of resistance, unbind the imagination, connect what's been dangerously disconnected."

When I read this I thought of the intro that we read, but I also thought about Trinh Min-ha's piece as well. From the itroduction, I connected Rich's quotation with what they were talking about how resisitance literature offers various models of racial, gender, and class empowerment and that it engages with many types of interventions. I think that they both relate because in order for the liberation of women to succeed there needs to many types of resistance and people working together to intervine. I also thought this could relate to Min-ha's piece becasue she was talking about how people may be differnt, but when those differences are embraced, there is a sense of empowerment. I understood Rich's quotation to mean that women need to work together, no matter what differences, to fight for women as a whole.

-Jessica Mitchell