Abahlali baseMjondolo Black Women’s Blueprint CorpWatch Detroit Digital Justice Coalition Forward Together Idle No More Immigration Workshop at The 2012 Scholar and Feminist Conference Global Network of Sex Work Projects International Domestic Workers Network La Via Campesina Mexico Solidarity Network Nation Inside Navdanya No History is Illegal: A Campaign to Save Our Stories Prisons and … Read more
Amuchástegui, Ana. “Sexuality, Identity, and Citizenship in Contemporary Mexico.”Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights. Ed. Peter Aggleton and Richard G. Parker. London: Routledge, 2010. Amuchástegui, Ana, Guadalupe Cruz, Evelyn Aldaz, and María C. Mejía. The Complexities of the Mexican Secular State and the Rights of Women. Rep. Gunda Werner Institute, June-July 2010. Web: Accessed … Read more
Paradoxes of Neoliberalism is a video by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring interviews with Sealing Cheng, Lisa Duggan, Dean Spade, Elizabeth Bernstein, Miranda Joseph, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Kate Bedford. As Professor Cheng describes in the video’s opening sequence, the economics and politics of neoliberalism are riddled with paradoxes and … Read more
What is Neoliberalism? is a video by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, featuring interviews with Lisa Duggan, Miranda Joseph, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Dean Spade, Sandra K. Soto, Teresa Gowan, and Ana Amuchástegui. In the video, contributors describe the various meanings that have been attributed to the term “neoliberalism,” the neoliberal economic policies … Read more
“Impossibility Now” is a trans* politics manifesto by Dean Spade. This video was created for the February 2013 conference “Gender Talents: A Special Address,” which asked invited speakers to perform a manifesto. The video takes themes from Dean’s book, Normal Life, and illustrates them with images. Dean teamed up with filmmaker Basil Shadid to shoot … Read more
In January 2009, we started a photovoice project with ten women sex workers in the Yongsan red-light district, an area targeted for demolition. Together with its surrounding neighborhoods, the red-light district occupied a prime location in front of a major train station in Seoul. A week after the project was begun, the National Alliance of … Read more
This photovoice project increased awareness about issues of violence and sexual vulnerabilities to youth, their communities, and policy makers through photo exhibitions and other community events. Youth learned photography skills, interacted in group settings, engaged in critical discussions about important issues affecting their health, wrote reflective stories about their photos, and engaged in policy change … Read more
At the crossroads of Louisiana’s Highway 1 and a $480 LEICA D-LUX 3 digital camera, at the intersection of disaster tourism and the blind field that animates branded images of catastrophe, signs of the times appear. Today, the anticipation of disaster operates politically to govern time itself—repeatedly activating imagined futures in the present moment of … Read more
I was born in Corona QueensInto a childhood that was hardAnd as the psychoanalytic theories go,Bits and pieces split off,Bits and pieces that could not growLeft there on the streets butstill wanting a space in which to playto make believe,to find a way,to keep the future from disintegrating into the unlivable unlived past. I needed … Read more
[T]he neoliberal present is a space of a transition, not only between modes of production and modes of life, but between different, animating fantasies.—Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism Virgin Mary, mother of god, become a feminist,Become a feminist, become a feminist.—Pussy Riot, “Punk Prayer” Pussy Riots at Menopause Two clusters of concerns provoke this reflection on … Read more
