December 3
In our final class, we will celebrate our learning with and from different authors, artists, storytellers, and each other. What was it to learn with and from stories, artists and one-another in the classroom? Were there moments you came to know the worlds we study and live in differently? What reading spoke to you deeply and why, what class topic, artist, what idea will you bring along in your feminist toolkit and help imagine / bring into being a feminist future?
Drawing on the readings and this reflection, what is the labour of a feminist futurist, to pursue a transformative praxis challenging and uprooting systems of oppression, to centre marginalized persons as knowers and actors in their own past, present and future, and to embrace curiosity, imagination, and emotion as ways of knowing and being that are life affirming and world building? Come to class prepared to share.
Readings (choose 4)
- Brian Stevenson, You Don’t Create Justice by Doing What is Comfortable (CN – RV, 21 minute video)
- Sara Ahmed. Living a Feminist Life. Conclusion 1, A Killjoy Survival Kit (pp 235-250).
- Weiss, Penny. “Getting to the Roots; or, Everything I Need to Know About Radical Social Change I Learned in My Garden.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly3 (2013): 131-150.
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Toni Morrison, There was this bird, Nobel Lecture (listen)
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Ahmed, Sara. “Feminist futures.” A concise companion to feminist theory (2003): 236-254.
Further Reading
- Lake, Milli, and Alexandra C. Hartman. “Vulnerability, the pursuit of knowledge, and the humanity of doing research.” Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability. Routledge, 2023. 26-40.
- Åkebo, M., & Thurairajah, T. (2023). Micro-level experiences, understandings and visions of peace in Sri Lanka’s war victory. Peacebuilding, 12(3), 410–428. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2023.2291919
- Dauphinee, Elizabeth. “Narrative voice and the limits of peacebuilding: Rethinking the politics of partiality.” Peacebuilding 3.3 (2015): 261-278.
Presentation | A Documentary: About Love (Paige and Anjana)