Indivisible Justice: Women Activists & Scholars Building Intersectional Knowledge

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Bringing together scholars and activists in the Triangle, this workshop explores how women activists in the US, and the South in particular, have approached political organizing. The canon on the theory of intersection of race/class/gender/sexualities is extensive, but our understanding of precisely how that plays out within the lives of activists and organizing campaigns is extremely limited. In North Carolina's Triangle, women activists have led powerful, innovative campaigns for environmental and reproductive justice, GLBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, an end to mass incarceration, educational equity campaigns, and economic justice movements since the 1960s. Yet given past experience, there's usually significant gaps between what the organizer knows and what the scholar puts in the book.

In order to have these women's lives told (documented and narrated) in ways that are intelligible, we need new approaches deeply informed by research and theory on intersectional gender. In the wake of election 2016 and the women's marches in January, this seems particularly important and timely.

This workshop is an experiment for women activists and scholars, exploring ways for universities to make our archives useful to and for civic activists - present and future.

Panelists: Mandy Carter, Rebekah Barber, Wesley Hogan