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In this roundtable a circle of feminist scholars/creative practitioners come together to honor the lifeworks of M. Jacqui Alexander and Sylvia Wynter. Our conversation is inspired by the centrality of practice and form, ritual and ceremony, labor and community in Alexander and Wynter’s work. Together, we will explore the forms and potentialities of feminist pedagogy and study today by reflecting on these themes in our own work and in the work of our Black feminist elders. We thereby aim to begin to challenge the hierarchization of knowledge and violence of institutional power that Alexander experienced during her time as a long-term visiting professor of women’s studies at The New School, and to honor the gift of her legacy by sharing it with others. We hope that the session is itself a ceremony of sorts that might enable the Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute to begin differently than its historical antecedents.
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Tao Leigh Goffe is a writer and a DJ specializing in the narratives that emerge from histories of race, debt, ecology, and technology. She studied English at Princeton University before pursuing a PhD from Yale University. Dr. Goffe is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. Her research is rooted in decolonial thought, literature, and theories of labor that center Black feminism’s engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. Dr. Goffe is co-founder the Dark Laboratory, an engine for the crossroads of Black and Indigenous ecologies.
Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/conceptual artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She teaches courses on critical race theory, feminist theory, black social movements in the Americas, women’s social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as race and environmental politics in the African Diaspora. She is a social anthropologist and is currently completing a book entitled To Defend this Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Geography of Race in Nicaragua, which examines how black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression from the 19th century to the present. She is currently developing a new project on the racial politics of energy production and dispossession in the US Gulf South and South Africa. Her work has been published in American Anthropologist, the Bulletin of Latin American Research, the Journal of Women, Gender, and Families of Color, make/shift: feminisms in motion, and Asterix. To see her art work visit www.courtneydesireemorris.com.
Romy Opperman (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the New School for Social Research whose work bridges the fields of feminist Africana, decolonial, environmental, and continental philosophy. Romy received her PhD in philosophy from Penn State and defended her dissertation “Race, Ecology, Freedom,” in summer 2020. She is currently at work on a monograph, and a series of articles that ask how established topics within climate justice (particularly debt, intergenerational ethics, and migration) are transformed when approached from Black and decolonial feminist grounds.
Deva Woodly is an Associate Professor of Politics at the New School. She is the author of The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance (Oxford 2015). She has also help fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
as well as the Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. Her research covers a variety of topics, from media & communication, to political understandings of economics, to race & imagination, & social movements. In each case, she focuses on the impacts of public discourse on the political understandings of social and economic issues as well as how those common understandings change democratic practice
and public policy. Her process of inquiry is inductive, moving from concrete, real-world conditions to the conceptual implications of those realities. In all cases, she centers the perspective of ordinary citizens
and political challengers with an eye toward how the demos impacts political action and shapes political possibilities. Her forthcoming book Reckoning: #BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements, an examination of the ways that social movements re-politicize public life in times of political despair, will be published by Oxford University Press in Fall 2021.
This event is part of The New School's Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute's 2021 Gender Matters Symposium. You can browse other events here.
The purpose of this symposium is to gather all New School faculty working on gender and sexuality studies in order to share ideas and visions for the new Gender & Sexualities Studies Institute while building bridges between the different divisions and schools. By facilitating discussions between faculty and bringing in external keynote speakers, we aim to nurture a vibrant GSSI community internally but also build connections and bridges with the outside world, joining efforts to promote existing gender and sexualities studies.
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