Valuing Narratives of Hybridity and Multiplicity

By providing parallel critiques of US Third World feminism and radical lesbian feminism from the perspective of bisexual feminists and feminists of mixed race, ethnicity, and culture, this author argues that theories concerned with power, privilege, and social change would benefit from a valuation of narratives of hybridity and multiplicity. RESUME Ayant a I'appui des critiques paralleles de la perception feministe americaine sur le Tiers Monde et du feminsme lesbien radical en partant du point de vue des feministes bisexuelles et des feministes de race mixte, de 1'ethnicite et de la culture, cette auteure affirme que les theories reliees au pouvoir, au privilege et au changement social tirerait profit d'estimer a leur juste valeur les recits sur le hybridite et sur la multiplicite. Some days the line I walk turns out to be straight Other days the line tends to deviate I've got no criteria for sex or race I just want to hear your voice I just want to see your face.-Ani DiFranc