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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Sarah Jane Blithe; Janell C. Bauer; Angela N. Gist-Mackey; Ashley R. Hall; Shard M. Davis; Anita Mixon; Andrea Ewing; Prisca S. Ngondo; Cerise L. Glenn; Melanie Duckworth; Kelly J. Cross; Idrissa Snider; Rebecca Mercado Jones; Jayna Marie Jones; Siobhan Smith-Jones; Johnny L. Jones; Savaughn Williams; Robin M. Boylorn; Tina Harris; Cassidy D. Ellis; Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri; Ruth J. Beerman; Michael S. Martin; Lydia Huerta Moreno; Ana Gomez Parga; Maureen Ebben; Cheris Kramarae; Kathleen Rushforth; James McDonald; Sara Deturk; Danette M. Pugh-Patton; Antonio L. Spikes; Jenna N. Hanchey

Sarah Blithe; Janell C Bauer; Angela N Gist-Mackey; Ashley R Hall; Shardé M Davis; Anita Mixon; Andrea Ewing; Prisca S Ngondo; Cerise L Glenn; Melanie Duckworth

Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer (Editors)

United States, United States of America

New Brunswick, NJ, 2022

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"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"-- Provided by publisher

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 recogn ition." 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 exam ples. 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"

Contents 7
1 Introduction 13
2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and Activism 26
Part 1 Black Lives Matter 43
Introduction 43
3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up Space 47
4 #BlackIndigenous StoriesMatter 54
5 Your Black Friends Are Tired 59
6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19 62
7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ Fears 68
8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and Dismissed 74
9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher Education 80
10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational Empowerment 86
11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatter 92
12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic Racism 94
13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Resistance of Sexual Stereotypes 100
14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death) 105
15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial Pandemic 109
Part 2 Narrating the Material Body 115
Introduction 115
16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and Resistance 119
17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of Resistance to Dominant Body Ideologies 138
18 The Silence of Laughter 157
Part 3 Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments 179
Introduction 179
19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of Memes 183
20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial Intelligence 206
21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital Persistence 227
Part 4 New Feminist Theorizing 249
Introduction 249
22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet Metaphor 253
23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular Life 268
24 Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence 288
Acknowledgments 305
Notes on Contributors 307
Index 313

Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.

2023-08-06