Category: Women of Color

Sylvanna M. Falcón, “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times”

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Knight Library, Browsing Room1501 Kincaid St., UO campus Lorwin Lectureship Series  “Finding ‘Light born in darkness:’ The Urgency of Feminist Activism in These Times” Sylvanna M. Falcón, University of California, Santa Cruz Dr. Sylvanna M. Falcón is an associate professor in…

Irum Shiekh: CSWS Noon Talk

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Hendricks Hall 330 Jane Grant Conference Room UO campus CSWS Noon TalkSubject: Women’s Mosque Movement of the 21st Century Speaker: Dr. Irum Shiekh, Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Clark Honors College, University of Oregon Dr. Irum Shiekh teaches…

Rhaisa Williams, “Screaming to Dream: Toni Morrison, Emmett Till, and Black Maternal Grief”

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Gerlinger Lounge, 1468 University St. Lorwin Lectureship Series Rhaisa Kameela Williams is assistant professor of Theater and Performance Studies in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Williams’ research uses mixed-archive methods—spanning across literature, family history, archives,…

Celebrating Asian American Feminisms

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CSWS and the Women of Color Project joined the Department of Ethnic Studies in celebrating Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, a new anthology edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan. The panel discussion and book celebration took…

“Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam” — Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad

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253 Straub Hall “Making a Case for Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Islam Feminist Longings and Ecological Concerns” by Nayawiyyah U. Muhammad Nayawiyyah Muhammad is a professor in the department of Religious Studies at California…

Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice

New journal article by Lynn Stephen Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S. by Lynn Stephen. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2): 229-257. January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1534836 Dr. Stephen’s uses the concept of gendered embodied structures…