Badass feminist politics : exploring radical edges of feminist theory, communication, and activism / edited by Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer.

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TextPublisher: Rutgers University Press, 2022Description: ix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

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9781978826595

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HQ1191.U6 BAD

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Introduction / Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer Badass activities for threading together theory, pedagogy, and activism / Janell C. Bauer and Sarah Jane Blithe Part I. Black lives matter Being black in the ivory: Telling our truth and taking up space / Angel N. Gist-Mackey, Ashley R. Hall, and Shardé M. Davis #BlackIndigenousStoriesMatter / Anita Mixon Your black friends are tired / Andrea Ewing Inciting change with my keyboard: Leveraging hashtag activism to fight anti-black racism during COVID-19 / Shardé M. Davis The reality of our dreams: Black lives' fears / Prisca S. Ngondo Black women in black lives matter: Navigating being both engaged and dismissed / Cerise L. Glenn Antiracist holistic change in "STEM" in higher education / Melanie Duckworth and Kelly J. Cross Fighting for black studies: An essay about educational empowerment / Idrissa N. Snider When you can't call the cops: Intimate partner violence and #BlackLivesMatter / Rebecca Mercado Jones and Jayna Marie Jones Discovering your social justice gift amid the distraction of systemic racism / Siobhan E. Smith-Jones and Johnny Jones Sexuality in my reality: An autoethnography of a black woman's resistance of sexual stereotypes / Savaughn Williams The forgotten ones (for those who survive black death) / Robin M. Boylorn Performative activism: Inauthentic allyship in the midst of a racial pandemic / Tina M. Harris Part II. Narrating the material body Nevertheless, she feels pretty: A critical co-constructed autoethnography on fat persistence and resistance / Cassidy D. Ellis and Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri Visual activism, persistence, and identity: Ostomy selfies as a form of resistance to dominant body ideologies / Ruth J. Beerman and Michael S. Martin The silence of laughter / Lydia Huerta Moreno Part III. Living feminist politics in mediated environments Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican womanhood through the power of memes / Ana Gomez Parga Smart talk: Feminist communication questions for artificial intelligence / Maureen Ebben and Cheris Kramarae The silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A case of digital persistence / Kathleen Rushforth Part IV. New feminist theorizing Social justice organizing through the closet metaphor / James McDonald and Sara DeTurk Disrupting the ratchet-respectable binary: Explorations of ratchet feminism and ratchet respectability in daily and popular life / Danette M. Pugh-Patton and Antonio L. Spikes Afrofuturist lessons in persistence / Jenna N. Hanchey

Summary: In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even as mass shootings continue. Expressed dissent to political power is labeled as "fake news." DREAMers, Muslims, Trans military members, women, black bodies, the LGBTQI+ community, Latina/o/x communities, rape survivors, sex workers, and immigrants have all been systematically silenced. During this difficult time and despite such restrictions, advocates and allies persist and resist, forming dialogues that call to repel inequality in its many forms. Addressing the oppression of women of color, white women, women with (dis)abilities, and LBTQI+ individuals across cultures and contexts remains a central posit of feminist struggle and requires "a distinctly feminist politics of recognition." However, as second wave debates about feminism have revealed, there is no single way to express a feminist politic. Rather, living feminist politics requires individual interpretation and struggle, collective discussion and disagreement, and recognizing difference among women as well as points of convergence in feminist struggle. Badass Feminist Politics includes a diverse range of engaging feminist political projects to not only analyze the work being done on the ground but provide an overview for action that can be taken on by those seeking to engage in feminist activism in their own communities. Contributors included here are working for equality and equity and resisting violent, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and sexist language and action during this tension-filled political moment. Collectively, the book explores what it means to live and communicate feminist politics in everyday choices and actions, and how we can facilitate learning by analyzing these examples. Taking up current issues and new theoretical perspectives, the authors offer novel perspectives into what it means to live feminist politics. This book is a testament to resilience, resistance, communication, and forward thinking about what these themes all mean for new feminist agendas. Learning how to resist oppressive structures through words and actions is particularly important for students. Badass Feminist Politics features scholars from non-dominant groups taking up issues of marginalization and oppression, which can help people accomplish their social justice goals of inclusivity on the ground and in the classroom

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer
Badass activities for threading together theory, pedagogy, and activism / Janell C. Bauer and Sarah Jane Blithe
Part I. Black lives matter
Being black in the ivory: Telling our truth and taking up space / Angel N. Gist-Mackey, Ashley R. Hall, and Shardé M. Davis
#BlackIndigenousStoriesMatter / Anita Mixon
Your black friends are tired / Andrea Ewing
Inciting change with my keyboard: Leveraging hashtag activism to fight anti-black racism during COVID-19 / Shardé M. Davis
The reality of our dreams: Black lives' fears / Prisca S. Ngondo
Black women in black lives matter: Navigating being both engaged and dismissed / Cerise L. Glenn
Antiracist holistic change in "STEM" in higher education / Melanie Duckworth and Kelly J. Cross
Fighting for black studies: An essay about educational empowerment / Idrissa N. Snider
When you can't call the cops: Intimate partner violence and #BlackLivesMatter / Rebecca Mercado Jones and Jayna Marie Jones
Discovering your social justice gift amid the distraction of systemic racism / Siobhan E. Smith-Jones and Johnny Jones
Sexuality in my reality: An autoethnography of a black woman's resistance of sexual stereotypes / Savaughn Williams
The forgotten ones (for those who survive black death) / Robin M. Boylorn
Performative activism: Inauthentic allyship in the midst of a racial pandemic / Tina M. Harris
Part II. Narrating the material body
Nevertheless, she feels pretty: A critical co-constructed autoethnography on fat persistence and resistance / Cassidy D. Ellis and Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri
Visual activism, persistence, and identity: Ostomy selfies as a form of resistance to dominant body ideologies / Ruth J. Beerman and Michael S. Martin
The silence of laughter / Lydia Huerta Moreno
Part III. Living feminist politics in mediated environments
Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican womanhood through the power of memes / Ana Gomez Parga
Smart talk: Feminist communication questions for artificial intelligence / Maureen Ebben and Cheris Kramarae
The silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A case of digital persistence / Kathleen Rushforth
Part IV. New feminist theorizing
Social justice organizing through the closet metaphor / James McDonald and Sara DeTurk
Disrupting the ratchet-respectable binary: Explorations of ratchet feminism and ratchet respectability in daily and popular life / Danette M. Pugh-Patton and Antonio L. Spikes
Afrofuturist lessons in persistence / Jenna N. Hanchey

In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even as mass shootings continue. Expressed dissent to political power is labeled as "fake news." DREAMers, Muslims, Trans military members, women, black bodies, the LGBTQI+ community, Latina/o/x communities, rape survivors, sex workers, and immigrants have all been systematically silenced. During this difficult time and despite such restrictions, advocates and allies persist and resist, forming dialogues that call to repel inequality in its many forms. Addressing the oppression of women of color, white women, women with (dis)abilities, and LBTQI+ individuals across cultures and contexts remains a central posit of feminist struggle and requires "a distinctly feminist politics of recognition." However, as second wave debates about feminism have revealed, there is no single way to express a feminist politic. Rather, living feminist politics requires individual interpretation and struggle, collective discussion and disagreement, and recognizing difference among women as well as points of convergence in feminist struggle. Badass Feminist Politics includes a diverse range of engaging feminist political projects to not only analyze the work being done on the ground but provide an overview for action that can be taken on by those seeking to engage in feminist activism in their own communities. Contributors included here are working for equality and equity and resisting violent, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and sexist language and action during this tension-filled political moment. Collectively, the book explores what it means to live and communicate feminist politics in everyday choices and actions, and how we can facilitate learning by analyzing these examples. Taking up current issues and new theoretical perspectives, the authors offer novel perspectives into what it means to live feminist politics. This book is a testament to resilience, resistance, communication, and forward thinking about what these themes all mean for new feminist agendas. Learning how to resist oppressive structures through words and actions is particularly important for students. Badass Feminist Politics features scholars from non-dominant groups taking up issues of marginalization and oppression, which can help people accomplish their social justice goals of inclusivity on the ground and in the classroom

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