Brainstorm #4 Eric Fong

Sandoval's article "Dissendent Globalizations" proposes itself as a remedy to neoliberalism through coalition politics. Sandoval believes that through a 'different form of globalization' the will be able to consolidate people of all different backgrounds under the banner of love to overcome the unjust impacts of neoliberalism. Transnational unification of marginalized groups will provide a coalition of people that understand can will be able to the inequalities of neoliberalism. Sandoval's "differential consciousness" is re-membered through reenacting the methods used by women in the third world feminist movement. They are seeking to come and bring together all groups of people to form a single coalition; this coalition being named somewhat an "affinities inside difference." Sandoval's call to unify people of all backgrounds that are marginalized is married with the Women Who Rock Archive. The women there seek to parallel the actions that made the third world feminism successful; the women seek to bring together all people through the power of music especially women who have been typically blocked from the typically masculine genre. This quote from Bea Medicine best describes how Women in Rock should utilize the ideas of Sandoval, "this differential consciousness and social movement permit affinities inside difference to attract, combine, and relate new constituencies into transnational coalitions-of-resistance." (Sandoval 26). A consistent theme I found alarming was the lack of women representation of acknowledgment pre the 3rd world feminism (1970s). Seeing the historical description by Sandoval in her book and her surprise, "It was shocking to see a course that had the word “women” in the title, that meant that women were a category of analysis" (cinema UC)