Summary Of At Fusion By Malcolm Harris

A safe space is a place designated for students to express themselves freely with others who are going through many of the same hardships. “At Fusion, Malcolm Harris tracks the provenance of this rather peculiar idea. The original “safe spaces,” he writes, were established by gays and lesbians in the mid ’60s and subsequently picked up by feminists who hoped to “distance” themselves “from men and patriarchal thought.” These “spaces,” he notes, “were not entirely free of internal disagreement,” but they did require their participants to exhibit “a devotion to a common political project” or cause.”(Silly Students) This essay will discuss the differences between the two articles and the wedge issue that is driving them further apart.
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