#DayWithoutAWoman Strike
In an odd sort of inversion where those who wish to maintain the status quo use the arguments and language of the opposition to shut down their activism, Meghan Daum argues in the LA Times that the Women’s Strike is only for privileged women. Maureen Shaw makes a similar argument in Quartz. In a classic critique of acts of systematic and collective resistance, Shaw went on to argue that strikes that have particular aims are more successful. Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruzza struck back at this line, calling this line of critique ‘concern trolling’ in The Nation. They point to the responses to this line of concern that organizers like Magally A. Miranda Alcazar and Kate D. Griffiths discuss at length, also in The Nation. Read more
The Trott Line 