Feb. 26 INTERSECTIONAL POSITIONALITY & STRATEGY

Lesson Learning Objectives

This course is a graduate research seminar intending to provide participants with the following:

A review of notable examples of research about how social movements take up ideas of intersectionality.
A space for in-depth consideration of current research about intersectional social movement action such that course participants will become familiar with key questions and limitations of social movement intersectionality in action.
An opportunity to do continual analyses of social movements using an intersectional lens such that participants will develop fluency in raising and engaging questions from an intersectional perspective.

Class Agenda

Mini-lecture by Dr. Broad

Discussion facilitation of readings by class colleagues

Readings:

Chun, J.H., G. Lipsitz, Y, Shin, 2013. “Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 38 (4): 917-940.

Thuma, E. 2019. Chapter 1: “Lessons in Self Defense: From Free Joan Little to Free them All” In All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing and The Feminist Fight to End Violence. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. [Ebook in UF libraries: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ufl/reader.action?docID=5747461&ppg=1

Montoya 2023. Studying Latina Mobilization Intersectionally, Studying Latinas Mobilizing Intersectionality, In D’Agostino, S., & E. Brown, N. (Eds.).Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms: Global Practices and Experiences (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003471547

Lecture

Any slides used will be posted here.

Assignments for Next Class

Readings

Luna, Z. 2016. “Truly a Woman of Color Organization: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in Pursuit of Intersectionality.” Gender & Society 30(5): 769-790.

Ishkanian, A., & Peña Saavedra, A. 2019. The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: The case of Sisters Uncut. The Sociological Review, 67(5), 985-1001.

DeFillippis, J.N. and B. Anderson-Nathe. 2017. “Embodying Margin to Center: Intersectional Activism among Queer Liberation Organizations” In LGBTQ Politics edited by M. Brettschneider, S. Burgess, C. Keeting. New York: New York University Press. Pgs. 110-133.

DUE: Review 7/Discussion Reflection 7