Brainstorm #4 - Alexis T

In "Dissident Globalizations," Sandoval introduces a response to oppressive hierarchy in the form of, Borderland Feminism, "a methodology capable of mobilizing queer and other oppositional modalities into a coalitional and dissident-global-praxis," (25). This third-world feminism utilizes other forms of feminism (equal rights, revolutionary, supremacist, and separatist) as tools to fuel a differential strategy of resistance. The strength of this movement comes from interdisciplinary connections between groups that goes against the independent mindset of neoliberalism. In the "Women Who Rock Oral History Project," Medusa says that "men can get away with being so-so," "because they at least tried," while "we can't just try, we do have to step up there and it has to be our best and it has to be polished," (7:40). Thus, women in this music industry are overlooked and their accomplishment go unrecorded in favor of male bands that are arguably of the same caliber. So the WWR formed a community that actively archives these women's work across all groups. They focus on their goal rather than differences between themselves, embodying the 'differential consciousness' described in the Sandoval piece. The group embodies the praxis of unifying "love in the postmodern world" described by Sandoval (24). The equal and opposite reaction to the oppressive force of global neoliberalism is the eclectic, global organization of groups unified by the goal of emancipation.