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... position for both writing and political activism. utopias biography political feminist life writing about political activism This piece is about the inevitable uncertainty in the experience of writing. It analyzes different styles and describes the difficulty of being clear without...

...Trans Politics The image of Sojourner Truth addressing the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention has had a long, varied life; her question “Ain’t I a woman?” has circulated in various feminist contexts as a contestation of narrow, misogynist, and white supremacist conceptions of “woman.” This image...

... This chapter visits the Shanghai classroom of leftist feminist Vicki Garvin and explores how Garvin used Mao Zedong’s writings to reinterpret and translate African American political history to Chinese English-language students. The chapter also argues that her experiences inside and outside...

..., including contradictory accounts mirroring the variety of feminist movement ideas. The camp became a place of protest for women with very different political aesthetics, strategies, fears, and wishes. At the camp fire, they discussed these differences, the prospects for nuclear disarmament, rival visions...

... The afterword addresses a key question that animates this project: how do we write the lifeworlds of trans people who are denied basic access to life at every turn? Abolishing cisness is an ongoing project that refuses the endless demands placed on trans people to be both the crisis and site...

...), but I also, finally, accept forgetting. Nothing is more galvanizing than trying to learn from a next generation how they shape a life in politics now, and nothing more urgent than trying to join them as they struggle to Occupy our changing world. civil rights movement Occupy suffrage activists...

...Protest and Reclaiming This chapter explores revolutionary aesthetics and the role of online engagement for the twenty-first-century incarnation of the 1970s radical feminist group W.I.T.C.H. The politics of both groups are radical for their times, although they differ dramatically in terms...

.... In reflecting on the contiguous but abyssal space between plant grafting and animal organ transplantation, the epilogue reiterates this book’s search for a dehumanist feminist mnemonics of our time—when human and animal mind-bodies (as well as plants and other life forms) are cut, displaced, reproduced...

... to develop an intersectional politics. intersectionality feminist pedagogy process pedagogy student-centered learning “The Burning of Paper instead of Children” ...

... render admissible, and what does it render inadmissible regarding political subjectivity?) by focusing on feminist and antimilitarist activity in post-Yugoslavia, and, in particular, Women in Black’s enactments of cross-border camaraderie and mourning for those officially turned into “enemies...

... the Williamses' media. Lastly, it mulls over how the shifting international context of the Cold War impacted the Williamses’ political consciousness and their altering relationships to various political regimes. This chapter visits the Shanghai classroom of leftist feminist Vicki Garvin and explores how...

... Kemalist feminism as the backbone of secular modernity in the 1920s and the feminization of political Islam in the 1980s. Turkish secularism denotes a modern way of life, namely European, calling for the emancipation of women from religion. The first novel illustrates the centrality of women both as agents...

... The introduction, coauthored by Laura Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks, connects Gabriela’s life story to the broader historical, sociological, and political context of Brazil from the 1960s through the 2000s. The introduction elucidates the historical milieu in which Gabriela came of age...

... Grounded in the family scenes and struggles of a woman named Carly, the introduction details the book’s methodology, theoretical framework, and primary arguments. The authors describe their approach and the feminist, political commitments that guided their work. Determined to undercut the “mommy...

... The epilogue begins with WWAV’s thirtieth-anniversary celebrations in 2019, as we come together with our local, national, and international community to honor the vision that our foremothers had in 1989 and the worlds we have made together at the intersections of Black feminist struggle ever...

... study focused on affirming “Black livingness.” The chapter argues for a Du Boisian methodology in pursuing Black geographies—attention to the political economic and the poetic in rejecting social death as the primary means of characterizing Black life and place-making. The reason for this is about...

... feminist geographer Katherine McKittrick has called a “geographic act,” a liberatory respatialization of the material and political landscape amid the unfreedoms of ongoing settler colonial violence and government failures to transition Colombian society into any true shape of collective peace and justice...