Comments on: kyriarchy

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:53:46 +0000

Thank you for this useful definition. Being one of these straight, thin (ish), rich (well not desititute), white, cis women, this is something I hadn’t really thought about much before. Thank you, a lot of food for thought, I shall go and investigate the other post you linked to.

By: Whose child is this? Kyriarchy, privilege, and motherhood « Raising My Boychick

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:55:42 +0000

[...] child is this? Kyriarchy, privilege, and motherhood Y’all know that I blame the kyriarchy — to talk only of patriarchy is to whitewash (ha ha) the myriad ways that people, including [...]

By: it is not an academic thing « a shiny new coin

it is not an academic thing « a shiny new coin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:21:49 +0000

[...] cases already have. They have proven that they want to do this. Speaking up for equality under a kyriarchy is something that we all have to do eventually, if we want to consider ourselves [...]

By: #doctorwhofail « Raising My Boychick

#doctorwhofail « Raising My Boychick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:57:08 +0000

[...] um, rather a lot. And so I often find myself tweeting about Doctor Who — and, being the kyriarchy-butt-kicker I like to think I am, I find myself tweeting about when Doctor Who fails. And oh, does [...]

By: Breastfeeding, Formula Feeding and Social Oppression | Breastfeeding Moms Unite

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:03 +0000

[...] To look at choosing formula as only an individual choice is to ignore all other sources of the problem: media (advertising), health care system (cut backs and lack of breastfeeding education), economy (need to return to work early to make ends meet), social pressure (family, friends, society), the current conservative politics that drive all of the above and of course the invisible walls of patriarchy, and where applicable, ableism, racism and sexism. Or should I just say kyriarchy? [...]

By: Diaper-free, but kyriarchy-laden « Raising My Boychick

Diaper-free, but kyriarchy-laden « Raising My Boychick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:20:00 +0000

[...] (especially in this universal-diapering culture), but what I want to talk about is its role in kyriarchy. For to be sure, it does have (a highly complicated) one: while it’s not true that only [...]

By: Confessing Evangelical » Blog Archive » Kyriarch eleison!

Confessing Evangelical » Blog Archive » Kyriarch eleison! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:38 +0000

[...] which probably explains why I hadn’t previously heard of it! – and I encountered it in this post by Arwyn at Raising Boychick. Arwyn quotes a definition of “kyriarchy” which describes it as: a neologism coined by [...]

By: I Spy… race? « Raising My Boychick

I Spy… race? « Raising My Boychick — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:09:56 +0000

[...] is kyriarchy that makes me feel this way, of course. It is the colorless, contextless definition of racism [...]

By: The Intersectional Feminist: An Introduction | Girl with Pen

The Intersectional Feminist: An Introduction | Girl with Pen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:53:39 +0000

[...] and oppression in others” (see her complex and highly informative perspective on kyriarchy here). These include, but are not limited to: age, race, gender, gender expression, nationality, [...]

By: Why I didn’t celebrate “World Mental Health Day” « Raising My Boychick

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:53:07 +0000

[...] miserable, sick, taunted, shunned, hated, and ignored. (Are we those things? Yes, in this fucked up kyriarchy, we are. But we’re also joyful, healthy, embraced, befriended, loved, and celebrated, and we [...]