Search Results for women-of-color feminisms

... of disability and women-of-color feminism that not only takes dependency as a given but also mines the figure of the welfare mother for its transformative potential. To imagine the welfare mother as a site for reenvisioning dependency, this essay draws on the “ruptural possibilities” of minority literary texts...

... interdisciplinary prospect, and the contributors call on disability studies, trans studies, Black studies, women-of-color feminism, visual culture, and the history of sexuality, generating emergent concepts, including crip-of-color critique (Kim), binary-abolitionist praxis (Stryker), a “trans-mad” aesthetic...

... politics underpinning intersectionality’s temporal logics, my paper presumes a fundamental relationship between black women and intersectionality. While I recognize that intersectionality emerged through women of color feminisms (inclusive of, but also...

..., and at the same time, we can discern the nationalism of certain versions of quarantine of multiculturalism as articulated by women of color and queer discourses. I think we should especially pay attention to the ways universities erect interconnected disciplinary borders and maintain conceptual boundaries...

... Critique, I attempted to Roderick A. advance a materialist interrogation of racialized gender and sexuality. I Ferguson tried to do so by theorizing the genealogy of women of color feminism as inspiration for intersectional analyses of nonheteronormative racial...

...” feminism’s neglect of questions of racial difference and its exclusion of the experiences of women of color — which are always already multiple and heterogeneous — from the dominant feminist project. With a particular interest in exploding the various...

...- ence and its theme, the more I became convinced that gay shame, if used in an uncritical way, was for, by, and about the white gay men who had rejected feminism and a queer of color critique and for whom, therefore, shame was still an active rubric of identification...

... revolution are widely reported. Seemingly trivial matters, such as the shape and color of a woman’s scarf or the thickness of her stockings, have been matters of public policy and disciplinary measures. Women are far from legal...

... to consider further how identity, normativity, and antinormativity might function when queer does shift to the Indigenous and back again. Insisting on the heterogeneity of historical locations and cultural specificities for theorizing sexuality, women of color feminism resists the institutionalizations...

... of vigilante justice and of splintering the feminist movement. Commentators such as Shreya Ila Anasuya responded that South Asian feminist academia and activism were highly hierarchical and exclusive to begin with, echoing the long-standing critiques of white, Western, and imperial feminism by women of color...

... spaces now attempt systematically to give the right of speech to those who tend to get less or no turns at expressing themselves (people of color, people with disabilities, women, marginalized folks of all kinds), it is good to be—sometimes painfully, yes—aware of how we present despite ourselves...

... analysis asks, for example, how queer people of color in the urban ghetto are more vulnerable to the threat of AIDS and HIV, or how capitalist development and gentrification affect trans sex workers differently from middle-class white gay men seeking marriage equality. The importance of this kind of work...

... to dismantle patriarchal oppression while “poor women and women of Color” clean their houses and tend to their children. 8 It is significant that Lorde understood her practice of self-care as a Black, lesbian woman as “coterminous with political struggle” against this backdrop. 9 Any political movement...

.... Nengudi's used nylon stockings uncork a heady vapor of meanings connected to skin color and race, the fetishization of gendered body parts, and the commodification of Black women. Yet, nylon has also been recruited for ultramasculine projects of military valor; it is a material that is strong, dependable...

..., as described above. The terms people of color (POC) and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are widely used in the United States, and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) is used in the United Kingdom, but as global terms they are limited and reinscribe colonial power/knowledge...

...; this work goes by multiple names. Sometimes it might front as a trans of color intellectual tradition, which has both invented itself relatively recently as visible within the university and has always been here, sometimes under Black feminisms, critical disability studies, critical university studies, porn...

...: A Comparative Study .” Maternal Child Health Journal 26 ( 2022 ). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-10021-03245-w . Altman Molly , et al. “ Information and Power: Women of Color's Experiences Interacting with Health Care Providers in Pregnancy and Birth .” Social Science and Medicine 238 ( 2019...

... by Radical Women of Color (New York: Kitchen Table/ Women of Color Press, 1984); Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan, eds., Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minneapolis: Univer- sity of Minnesota Press, 1994); Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender...

..., and the Negations of Black Lesbian Feminism Ferguson marks his debt to feminism and its persistent work of undoing normative and naturalizing moves made in the name of the universal. In his words, queer of color analysis “extends women...

... conference with all of her knowledge and politics. While trying to engage, the situation shifted in such a way that she found herself to be the problem. 33 By trying to mediate and hold space for dialogue between hegemonically operating white women and women of color with accomplices, Anzaldúa became...