Puja Kapai on #MeToo in China and the US
Updated: May 13, 2021
WSRC’s Convenor Puja Kapai was on RTHK’s The Pulse with Leta Hong Fincher talking about the #MeToo movement and feminism in China and the US.
‘I think [the #MeToo movement] runs right through from the personal to the political into the public space because ultimately it is about challenging structural inequalities and power hierarchies and imbalances that have persisted for generations. And I think the #MeToo movement is – #TimesUp or sort of calling out perpetrators – it’s really a signal that times are going to change and we just have to keep pushing the boundaries to bring more female voices out there.
And I think that it’s not enough just to think of gender because when we look at figures…we talked about women in politics, but if you go even beyond that and look at, well, what is the representation of women of colour in politics, or women of colour with a disability in politics, or LGBTIQ groups as well? So there is an avenue for the opening of spaces to be much more inclusive across the spectrum of difference.’
Watch Puja below:
i insightfully links #MeToo to challenging structural inequalities, urging inclusivity across differences. https://arrow-calculator.com
Calling #MeToo primarily a challenge to structural power hierarchies gets the order backwards. Without individual testimony and accountability, the structural critique stays abstract. Puja Kapai’s point about women of colour with a disability in politics actually shows why lived specificity matters more than a broad Times Up signal, and a video page covering the RTHK discussion on #MeToo and feminism can hold those layers together without flattening them into one movement.
Women of colour with a disability in politics now sits as its own line in our representation audit, not buried under a generic gender count. I added LGBTIQ groups and rewrote the prompt on power hierarchies to ask who is absent from public space. I used a comparison table for weighing counts and gaps while revising the sheet, then sent it to the convenor.
ai insightfully links #MeToo to challenging structural inequalities, urging inclusivity across all differences. https://NumberToRoman.com
nsightfully links #MeToo to challenging structural inequalities, advocating for broader inclusivity. https://csttoest.com