She was RK, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. Also: babble.
Welcome! You’ve reached the blog of RK Warrior-Princess, a mostly self-educated 20something Californian armed only with words and a legendarily critical (some say cranky) eye. I look through the lenses of intersectional feminism* and postcolonial sustainability; what I’m addressing here is generally media and fiction, but with the tendency to go all holistic and big big picture, when my mood is just right.
I am not an academic, nor am I anti-intellectual. I believe strongly in different ways of knowing and accessibility to ideas; when they become tools of elitism and exclusivity, I reject jargon and theory. I am not interested in or capable of the semantic/ideological/authenticity oneupmanship wars that are common in online social justice communities. I am not terribly diplomatic. I am not down with -isms.
That media and fiction matter, joy and anger are both important, and none of us are the bosses of anybody else’s feelings or their free time are general precepts of this blog, and not up for debate. I deal in strongly stated opinions, but I don’t believe they’re facts. I don’t judge people for liking what they like; I honestly care very little. I do judge media, and how.
* A note on feminism
You know the kind of feminism that is prescriptive, competitive, and involves a lot of women judging other women? The kind where “of course you’re a feminist, you just don’t know it” and all women face the same issues and oppressions regardless of their race, class, abilities, assigned sex, and nationalities? The sort where things can be more feminist or less feminist as though the word were a checklist or adjective, rather than a personal ethos devoted to the empowerment of all women everywhere, end of gender-based oppression, and destruction of the kyriarchy? Yeah. I’m pretty unthrilled about that kind of feminism too.
My feminism is a lens, and sometimes an adverb. It is the manner in which I approach all things, and the hope I hold to be just beyond the horizon. Feminism isn’t in and of itself a matter of argument here. That’s not up for debate either.
