As someone in the gender studies academic field, I seriously question the usefulness of theory that is not communicated in ways that the majority of the community it talks about can understand. So much feminist theory is impossible for someone without a post-grad degree to understand.
I get academic jargon has purpose. But our task is to combat oppression, making tools available to all of the oppressed. Not just academics.
Unless the only oppressed people we care about are academics...
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