>>160674 Director Lizzie Borden on Censorship, Community and the Movie She’s Kept in the Closet for Over 40 Years March 1, 2023
There’s that one part in Born in Flames, when they’re talking about whether it’s more powerful to see one lion or 200 mice united as a front. And I feel like all of your work gets to that point: that when we come together and we work together, we can create so much more change than if we try to be focused on individualism.
Lizzie Borden: I agree. That’s so on the head.
And there’s another thing which is, when I was making Born in Flames, some of the Black women didn’t like the word feminism, they preferred womanism or even another word. So it was like, “Throw that word away.”
I personally am a staunch feminist then and now, but the word doesn’t matter if one can come together on some issues. You don’t have to come together on all the issues. But that’s why, especially seeing what’s happening now politically, I think that’s more important than ever that women come together and work on some issues, even if they disagree on other issues.
And it doesn’t matter what one calls it, what word it’s called. Because when I was making Born In Flames, Ms. Magazine and all of that seemed to be the dominant feminism, and it just seemed so middle class and so alienating to, I suppose, other kinds of feminists. And I think there are many feminisms, plural, and again, intersectionally. And I don’t think enough work has been done on class.
