... razaka r testimonial cultures feminist oral history 1971 ...

...), the introduction shows how both, as memories of a past, are shaping the present. It draws from and engages critically with the scholarship of feminist oral history. The chapter develops the analytical and theoretical concepts of “testimonial cultures,” “combing” (to hide and to search), “absence-presence...

... Chapter 2 dives into the intimate work of completing oral histories with the WWAV foremothers after the fire. Storytelling is essential theory and method at WWAV: we tell stories so that the work will continue. Through life history interviews and collective storytelling sessions, we enumerate...

... or for life for the simple act of soliciting oral or anal sex. Our NO Justice Project was rooted in the everyday and intimate texture of Black cisgender and transgender women’s criminalization in the New Orleans present and past. We underline how, throughout American history, technologies of surveillance had...

... society and postcolonial feminist scholarship, the chapter’s analysis steers clear of binary explanations of power and resistance. It finds that the outcomes of black organizing are contradictory and contingent on different factors. Afro-Colombians have gained remarkable national and global visibility...

... ) included cooks, flower sellers, urban market vendors, and rural marketers. The following oral-history accounts of the 1930s and 1940s were recorded in the mid- to late 1980s by the La Paz–based Women’s History and Participation Workshop ( tahipamu ), and are interspersed with excerpts from historical...