National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference 2021
We are Family: Feminist Community Formations Across Borders and Experience
Sept. 17-18, 2021:
Where do we stand? Speaking Global South in U.S. academia
This roundtable invites conversation on how to move away from statist transnational feminist frameworks that fail to expose the nation state itself as a violent and neo-colonial formation. Our focus is on finding ways to break out of Euro-Americentric feminist scholarship that renders invisible women’s radical insurgency emerging out of Global South. We will be talking about the conflation of transnational feminism with women of color feminism in US academia and how the European humanitarian frameworks of migration perpetuate the colonial geographical hierarchies that construct the West as the safe haven for those fleeing the chaos in the uncivilized Global South.
Moderator: Cricket Keating, UW GWSS Associate Professor
Presenters: Mediha Sorma, UW GWSS graduate student; Akanksha Misra, Suny Plattsburgh graduate student; Jainey Kim, UW GWSS graduate student; Christina Chung, UW GWSS graduate student
Oct. 14-16, 2021:
With A Little Help From My Friends: Queer(ing) Friendship, the Praxis of Community Care
Moderator: Shirley Yee, UW GWSS Department Chair
Presenters:
Michelle Morado, UW GWSS graduate student; Pachucas: Embodiments of Resistance and Recognition
Jainey Kim, UW GWSS graduate student; When We Collide
Keila Taylor, UW GWSS graduate student; A Queer Feminist Food Politic
Re-Thinking Transnational Feminism: Kurdish Women’s Resistance Across Nation-States
Presenter: Mediha Sorma, UW GWSS graduate student; Re-Thinking Transnational Feminism: Kurdish Women’s Resistance Across Nation-States
Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis and Solidarities with Palestine and Beyond
This session brings together scholar-activists, engaged in local and global struggles, inspired by critical transnational feminist praxis. These struggles have included a consistent and intentional effort to include solidarity with Palestinians as part of the agenda. Participants will reflect on how their political commitments and solidarity ethos have shaped their research, scholarship, activism, and pedagogy as well as on the challenges they have faced.
Presenters: Cricket Keating, UW GWSS Associate Professor; Catalina Velasquez, UW GWSS graduate student; Margo Okazawa-Rey, Fielding Graduate University