Sunsara Taylor on veils, Foucault, sexuality, women's liberation & revolution Part 2

This is Part 2 of the exchange described below. Part 1 is available: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLT1HObmAns

Sunsara Taylor responds to question about veils, Foucault, sexuality, and women's liberation at University of California, Berkeley on March 15, 2010. This is from her national speaking tour, "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change -- WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"

Upcoming tour dates at UCLA on April 8, 2010, University of Hawaii on April 13, 2010 and more dates TBA.

In this exchange, Taylor is challenged by a Muslim student who wears the veil voluntarily. Taylor argues against cultural relativism and individualism in her response and gets into the origins of women's oppression and why communist revolution holds the potential for women's liberation and challenges everyone in the audience to be a part of the struggle for human emancipation.

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