(Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces

Facing the Limitations of Teaching and Learning Committed to Solidarity and Social Justice: A Feminist Approach

“…In turn, such attempting supports student imaginations and possibilities for new and more egalitarian social forms. The classroom readings, conversations, negotiations and sharing focus extensively on specific behaviors supporting solidarity inspired by transnational feminist theories and praxes articulated in the works of a plethora of feminist intellectuals and activists such as Gloria Anzaldúa (2009), bell hooks (1986), Dominique Caouette (2020), Diane Davis (1999), Diane C. Fujino (2009), Candace Johnson (2020), Cricket Keating (2005), Nathalie Kouri-Towe (2015), Nickita Longman (2018), Chandra T. Mohanty (2002), andEwa Ziarek (2002) among other. In these works, solidarity is theorized and practiced as fluid, shifting and unstable political alliances formed around issues such as depictions of racialized women in media, policing of Black men, missing and murdered Ingenious girls and women, anti-Muslim and anti-Asian violence, fair wages for women or transgender violence.…”

Non-Romani Researcher Positionality and Reflexivity

“…Nonetheless, "queer" is not without limits or problems. The predominantly white mainstream of queer theorizing was the subject of critique from lesbians of color (e.g., Hull, Scott, and Smith 1982;1983;Lorde 1984;Anzaldúa 1987) and later from queer of color theorists (Reid-Pharr 2002;Anzaldúa 2002;Ferguson 2004;Gopinath 2005, 3;Eng et al 2005) for its "disconnect" from and epistemological silences on structural oppressions experienced by non-white and non-cis queer subjects, such as racism or transphobia (Helen (charles) 1993) or classism (Cohen 2005). This includes Romani LGBTIQ people, some of whom are striving for basic survival against antigypsyism, homophobia, and/or transphobia.…”

Co-Created Learning: Decolonizing Journalism Education in Canada

“…I am also a media scholar and educator who has taught university journalism courses and practised forms of reporting in Canada and abroad. In pursuing the questions guiding this study, I draw from my professional experience as well as feminist practices of political solidarity with the struggles of others by taking responsibility for their oppression and well-being (see Anzaldua, 2009). This responsibility includes engaging in scholarship and analysis that displaces racial whiteness and Eurocentricity from spaces where knowledge is produced (Morgensen, 2014).…”