One thing that stood out to me in Chavez's piece of writing was when he talked about "differential vision." In order to truly understand what it is like to have differential vision, you need to look at all the social movements that have gone on. One for example that Chavez mentions is the social movement strategies of "US third-world feminists." How they were able to use their "different consciousness" to take control of power and spread their message across to a whole group and a whole nation of people.
Chavez describes their movement as a stick shift motor-vehicle and how in order to operate that vehicle it comes in you must be able to handle separate modes of power. What Chavez is basically saying is that these feminist movements are working but the way they got off the ground was from utilizing their power and not going full throttle the whole way. Instead of speeding, they decided to take their time as they knew that would get their message across more. Providing chaos is only going to create more chaos so by inching their way to the finish line, they were able to expand their power even more. Hopefully in the near future we see more people standing up for themselves in this matter.
Chavez, Karma R. “The Differential Visions of Queer Migration Manifestos.” University of Illinois Press, 3 Sept. 2020, http://www.jstor.com/stable/10.5406/j.ctt3fh5cn.6. Accessed 16 Nov. 2021.
Hey, David! I appreciate your summary of the Chavez article - helps me gain a bit more insight as well. I like Chavez's idea if looking at all social movements going on to gain a differential vision instead of just the one being discussed in the moment. Context is a vastly under-appreciated factor in many of these discussions. I feel that so many detractors of these social movements like to look at the specifics of one and write it off because of this or that, but fail to understand that the reason behind this or that is most likely due to it existing within the context of prior social movements or even simultaneous social movements. It also takes a bit of the nuance out of them if you only focus on one social movement without regard to the situation it was born from.
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