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born 1952 Eswatini
Patricia McFadden (born 1952) is a radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from eSwatini. She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years.
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When you are born, you arrive on this planet with everything you need. It is inside you, you just have to explore it and bring it to the collective human project of freedom.
When we fight racism, we create spaces which are quickly occupied by white people, because they are still not giving up their privilege.
All nationalisms are expressions of ideology that brings large numbers of people together to resist oppressive, dominant, intrusive systems.
As radical women we all come from traditions that minimize the individual because we understand that capitalism focuses on the individual, greed and accumulation.
This crisis of black survival is directly linked to the predation of big international pharmaceutical and agribusiness corporations, which are mining the Black female body. We have become the latest and last capitalist frontier.
Feminists always create new languages. The normative language is inadequate to say what we want to say and to do what we want to do.
White people have to give up their race privilege. Otherwise, Black people will have to continue fighting racism, which is really a distraction from the crucial healing and recovery work that we need to do among and inside ourselves.
As females, we are under constant social and cultural surveillance. We are told that we belong to everybody else except to ourselves. This is the foundation of hetero normativity, and too many women have accepted this fraud.
Contemporarity is about situating yourself in the new possibilities and opportunities that our world is offering us, based on the many struggles that women have engaged in since the dawn of patriarchal time. We cannot be told by the UN or by those who occupy the state, who we are and what our feminism is.