The fast feminist (FF) is a post-gender provocateur, not so much a gender terrorist as a gender risk-taker going the distance with her body. FF’s philosophy is lived. Actions count. One resists with one’s body.
The operative principles in Fast Feminism are that as FF I never write anything I haven’t done and that I locate the enactments inside a philosophical discourse. The sites of enactment are framed within queer postpornography. ‘Postpornography’ is a term used to refer to erotic sexual images, films and stories that recode how we look at bodies and sexual acts. If “pornography codes how to look at women,” postpornography queers the gaze, and in so doing destabilizes and recodes how we look at everyone.
(page 11)
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While Fast Feminism operates in proximity to other feminisms, its ‘natural’ home is in queer theory. Queer gets its meaning and its politics from its oppositional relationship to hegemonic norms. To queer something is to disrupt it, to put it under scrutiny and to attempt to change it.
(page 19)
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If fast feminism were to have a manifesto it would be:
1) Critique the world quickly.
2) Interrupt intellectual scholarship.
3) Position the body as the basis of intellectual work.
4) Write theory as art.
5) Do art as theory.
6) Do theory from non-obvious point of departure.
7) Do violence to the original context.
(page 174)
Fast Feminism by Shannon Bell
Published by Autonomedia
Brooklyn, New York
Copyright 2010