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Taking Children: A History of American Terror
A conversation with Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Valeria Luiselli
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Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli
The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.
Read MoreS&F Conference: Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence
Simone Browne, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Inderpal Grewal, Mariame Kaba, Cara Page, Nandita Sharma, and Dean Spade
This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state’s demands for constant access in the name of “security” and public order.
Read MoreQueer Liberation: No Prisons, No Borders
Video by Dean Spade + Hope Dector. Featuring Reina Gossett, Angélica Cházaro, CeCe McDonald, and Dean Spade.
Read MoreQueer Survival Economies: Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies
Panel discussion featuring Kate D’Adamo, Hamid Khan, and Ola Osaze, moderated by Amber Hollibaugh at The Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities.
Read MoreNavigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond
Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse
This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are constituted and contested. Emerging out of a 2009 meeting at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting convened by Munshi and Willse and drawing on the theoretical and historical models articulated by INCITE! Women, Gender Non-conforming, and Trans People of Color Against Violence, the collection asks: What are the possibilities for transformative politics given the capacity of neoliberal capital to incorporate, absorb and/or neutralize demands for social justice?
Read MoreHow Does It Feel to Be Stateless?
Talk by Altagracia Jean Joseph on immigration laws against Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic.
Read MoreHow Does It Feel to Be Stateless?
Altagracia Jean Joseph
In September 2013, the Dominican Republic passed TC168/13, a law that permanently annulled the citizenship of children born to “undocumented parents,” going back to 1929. This law directly impacted the children of Haitian immigrants who have been brought into to the Dominican Republic as laborers for the past 80 years, a practice initiated by the […]
Read MoreInvisible Lives, Targeted Bodies: Impacts of Economic Injustice on LGBTQ Communities
As part of the ongoing Queer Survival Economies project spearheaded by Amber Hollibaugh, this conference works to make visible queer economic realities and survival strategies. Tracks and sessions will include queer perspectives within poor and low-income communities, immigration, the state, and transnational flows of labor; the invisibility of the many queer people working in industries […]
Read MoreSakhi for South Asian Women
Released May 9, 2014
(Dare to Use The F-Word, Episode 11) In this episode of Dare to Use the F-Word, we interview Caritas Doha of Sakhi for South Asian Women about her work to help young women who immigrated to the U.S. as children apply for employment authorization under a new program called DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Caritas explores the unique vulnerabilities experienced by women and children who are undocumented immigrants and survivors of violence.
ListenHistorical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen
The history of domestic worker organizing illustrates how domestic workers have mobilized to transform their working lives and, in the process, have built a movement with a distinctive approach to labor organizing. In this conversation, historians Elizabeth Hutchison (University of New Mexico) and Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) explore the contours of this history in the […]
Read MoreNew Feminist Solutions: Social Justice Approaches to Ending Domestic Violence
Tiloma Jayasinghe, Sally MacNichol, Angela Moreno
Between 2011-2012, Sakhi for South Asian Women convened two meetings of grassroots organizers to address the challenges of building a broader anti-violence movement. These events explored the intersections between domestic violence and issues like immigration, transphobia, incarceration, and reproductive justice. While communities of color have always been disproportionately affected by such kinds of violence, they […]
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