There's a women's community center in, I think it's Alabama (I read about it in a book called Conquest by Andrea Smith, you should check it out), and it provides health, educational services, daycare and other resources for women in the area. It is not pro-choice though. The feminist/anti-feminist dichotomy might make it so that feminist groups wouldn't work with this women's center since it might be seen as "anti-feminist" by pro-choice groups
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that sounds about right. i mean, definitely when i started reading more woc feminist blogs (most of the ones i read--or used to read, i'm too tired for blogs most of the time nowadays--self-identify as feminist even though they all do have problems with mainstream american white feminism) i started thinking a lot more about the problems with mainstream american white feminism (and also a lot about my own privilege, like for a long time i didn't read woc blogs and i told myself it was because, oh, right now i'm really into gender issues, not race issues, like you can separate them, or, oh, they just happen not to talk about the things that interest me most. but eventually (actually when jessica of feministing released her book) i started questioning, well, why ARE those things the things that interest me, anyway? could it possibly be because i am white, and am only interested in oppressions i encounter? maybe i should rethink this. this experience incidentally is why i am super skeptical of people who say they're not interested in one
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