A Vision Statement

Having never written a "vision statement" before, I must first warn that I write this rather self-consciously with the worry that it may lack somewhat in vision and abound moreso in general blurriness. Here goes:

I suppose what stood out most for me in today's reading was the idea that the Internet, with its interactive and public format and its potentially egalitarian structure, can and should be appropriated by feminists in order to empower new, diverse and, perhaps, radical, feminist ways of knowing. In addition, it seems hard to miss the fact that text is a powerful medium with the authority to define and legitimize "ways of knowing" and the identities that may produce or follow from such epistemological standpoints. Following from these ideas, I suppose the purpose of my blog is to attempt to write into being my own feminist identity. I hope to bring a degree of authority and legitimacy to my feminism by way of engaging in a textual conversation with other feminisms online.

At the same time, by engaging and responding to links and comments, I hope to connect with the idea that this textual "me" cannot and will not be stable, and to track the changeability of "me". I guess, ultimately, I hope to engage with the idea that texts, and the other online feminisms I will encounter through classmates' blogs, work to produce me as a particular kind of subject/subjectivity and, likewise, my textual self works to produce other individuals' subjectivities. I hope to explore how exactly this process works. (Did that make sense to anyone other than me?)

Does anyone else note a glarring contradiction there? I do, and while I would rather ignore it, I suppose I should engage it by also attempting to explore the tension I feel between my desire to authorize a strong, solid identity through text and the apparent reality that that identity can never be stable.

So, yeah. I bet next week I'm gonna look back at this and be, like, "what the hell was that textual me thinking?"