Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197573631.003.0001
M. Messner
Military veterans are popularly imagined to be men, but recent decades have seen an increase in the number of women in the military, including women of color and queer-identified people. This diversification of the military is increasingly reflected in veterans’ peace organizations like Veterans For Peace and About Face. This younger, diverse generation of veterans brings their multiple experiences of race, social class, and gender oppression—before, during, and after their military service—to their anti-war activism. Their collective intersectional knowledge in turn shapes their activism, as veterans. The chapter reviews the literature on women and LGBTQ people in the military; intersectionality as an academic field; and intersectional praxis as an emergent connective tissue in the broader field of progressive activism. The chapter poses a question grounded in the tensions and possibilities of the present historical moment: How will veterans’ peace organizations respond to the challenges introduced by a younger and far more diverse cohort of activist veterans?
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Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197573631.003.0002
M. Messner
This chapter introduces six younger veterans active in Veterans For Peace and/or About Face: army veteran Wendy Barranco, air force veteran Phoenix Johnson, air force and army veteran Monique Salhab, army veteran Monisha Ríos, marine corps veteran Stephen Funk, and army veteran Brittany Ramos DeBarros. All six are people of color. Three of them are women, one is an Indigenous Two-Spirit person, one identifies as a genderqueer non-binary person, and three others as queer. Most come from poor or working-class backgrounds characterized by limited family resources, substandard schools, and racial marginalization, and they frequently grew up surrounded by parents and other adults who were veterans. Once in the military, they confronted some of the same experiences that straight men did, including absorbing the trauma of being in combat zones. But these six veterans’ military experiences—including being subjected to systemic racist, homophobic, gender and sexual indignities and violence—shaped the intersectional knowledge they subsequently carry to their peace and justice activism.
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