#metoo

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"Reclaim or Let Go?": Isabelle Laurenzi reviews The Joy of Consent by Manon Garcia and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed (Keywords: Desire; Feminism; Emancipation; Conceptual Engineering)

"If Ahmed’s sources of killjoy inspiration dislodge a reader’s sense of the most important feminist thinkers, all the better."

Eraldo Souza dos Santos

8 min read

The New Basics

"Violence": An Essay by Eraldo Souza dos Santos (Keywords: Politics; Structures; Domination; Racism)

"Violence cannot be understood only through the gesture of the blow, but equally through the systemic suffering that permeates our lives."

Maggie Nelson

21 min read

Conversations

"Messy Freedoms": A Conversation with Maggie Nelson (Keywords: Sex; Care; Responsibility; Motherhood

"While interdependency is a great fact, it does not actually tell us very much about what we are to do with it."

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

6 min read

Essays

"What is 'We'?": An Essay by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Keywords: Group Identity; Nationalism; Multiculturalism)

This semester, I gave my students a confounding assignment. I asked them to write a “non-representative representation” of a community to...

Linda Martín Alcoff

11 min read

Essays

"Why Do Social Identities Matter?": An Essay by Linda Martín Alcoff (Keywords:

Image © William Eckersley To be is to be recognized, Hegel argued. And the reason, by his thinking, was not so much psychological as...

"Reproduction Rebellion!": An Essay by Eva von Redecker (Keywords: Activism; Capitalism; Care)

Eva von Redecker (translated by Lucy Duggan)

6 min read

Essays

"Reproduction Rebellion!": An Essay by Eva von Redecker (Keywords: Activism; Capitalism; Care)

The feeling that something is wrong with our way of life has been around for a while – even among those who profit from it. Now, school...

Clare Chambers

11 min read

Conversations

"Feminism, Marriage and Choice" A Conversation with Clare Chambers (Keywords: Liberalism; equality)

"There are lots of ways in which women have a much better situation than we did once. But equally there are ways in which it is much worse."

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