After wiping up my drool from getting to meet Cynthia Enloe I am struck by the quality of the rest of the presenters at the "Coverage of Women and War" panel. Beena Sarwar, a peace activist from Pakistan just presented on the amazing peace activism by women in Pakistan on the historically, highly militarized struggle between India and Pakistan.

I feel like I have written extensively about the role of women in revolutionary/war movements and the diverse ways in which women are empowered and disempowered. But my question to the panel and in general, as I continue to cover and analyze (other people's coverage of) "women in war" is, how do we write about women and their diverse roles in war and revolutionary movements in a way that spurs activism, reaches diverse communities and is not from an explicitly Western view? As opposed to supporting the Bush Administration in their military aggression currently justified through the appropriation of feminist lingo.

Just that little bitty question.