A response to the presentations “Queer Pedagogies in Public Places” by Jennifer Miller and “Tilting Pedagogies as Utopian Intervention – Outrage, Desire, and the Body in the Classroom” by Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius at the The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2013: “Utopia.” Watch the videos here: The Scholar and Feminist Utopia conference began with a seed … Read more
A response to a discussion with Wildness filmmakers Wu Tsang and Roya Rastegar. This conversation took place on March 1, 2013 and kicked off the The Scholar & Feminist Conference 2013: “Utopia.” Watch the video here: I never made it to Wildness, the party. But I have spent enough intoxicated nights dancing in art-damaged queer … Read more
Alarcón, Norma. “The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism.” Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology. Eds. Hector Calderón and José David Saldívar. Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. 28-39. Banet-Weiser, Sarah, ed. American Quarterly 64.4 Academia & Activism (2012). Bassichis, Morgan, Alexander Lee, and Dean Spade. … Read more
Audre Lorde Project Gbowee Peace Foundation Highlander Research and Education Center INCITE! Interference Archive National Domestic Workers Alliance New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) Occuprint Sakhi for South Asian Women Sex Workers Outreach Project New York City (SWOP-NYC) Sylvia Rivera Law Project Visions of Justice (Margot Weiss)
This issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online affords the opportunity to reflect on 40 years of feminist social justice work within and, importantly, across academic and activist communities. The contributors to this issue, many of whom—like BCRW itself—exist at the nexus of activism and scholarship, came together around two powerful moments: BCRW’s 2011 conference, … Read more
If happiness and optimism appear too often as individual, psychological, overbearing and annoying to those excluded from their complacent joys, doesn’t hope sometimes arrive in collective, political and insurgent forms? …. [W]hat might the impact of mobilized hopefulness … be? That is the animating question for the political present. Can collective hope without delusion or … Read more
In October 2013, BCRW and The Engaging Tradition Project co-convened a conference called Queer Dreams and Non-Profit blues to examine the critiques emerging from queer and feminist activists and scholars about the impact of funding on social movement agendas and formations. During the conference, Hope Dector from BCRW and Dean Spade from The Engaging Tradition … Read more
No One Is Disposable is a series of discussions I’ve been hosting as an activist-in-residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Through these conversations, I’ve been speaking with activists about the issues most pressing in our lives. I started these conversations as a small intervention in a political climate where imprisonment of poor … Read more
Editor’s Note: In 2011, CeCe McDonald was a fashion design student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College when while walking to a grocery store, she and her friends were attacked by a group of white people shouting racist and transphobic slurs. When CeCe fatally stabbed one of their attackers in self defense, she was arrested … Read more
Artist statement A map reveals the spaces we choose to recognize, mark, and represent; it implies how spaces are claimed, which bodies get to occupy them, and how they can move through them. This series of “maps” plays with the discursive power that visual language and mapping technologies lend to ideas of space: fragmenting, glitching, … Read more
