Abstract:This article revisits the "crack baby epidemic" of the 1980s and 90s through a critical disability lens. It examines how newly available rights-based discourses of disability underwrote the overlapping figures of the "crack baby," the "crack mother," and the "welfare queen" in ways that called up historical narratives of the Black family as fundamentally impaired. This racialization of disability was contrasted by a seemingly incommensurate process, wherein disability was increasingly incorporated into the national tableau of multicultural difference. I argue that in a moment marked by the institutionalization of multicultural neoliberalism, disability held the suggestive power of antiracism, which productively enabled the racial violence of state neglect. It thus presents a feminist disability genealogy that takes account of the history of welfare reform through and against the contemporaneous history of US disability rights and its crucial legislative victories. This draws attention to the racialized and gendered subjects hailed in different relation to the state: the "crack baby" vs. the special needs Child, the "welfare queen" versus the independent, productive disabled citizen. It also highlights the division between deserving and undeserving forms of dependency consolidated in welfare legislation in the 1990s. Ultimately refusing the perpetuation of anti-Black racism through deployments of disability, I perform a coalitional reading that makes feminist sense of the historical relationship between disability and anti-Blackness in this era.
{"title":"Cripping the \"Crack Baby\" Epidemic: A Feminist Disability Genealogy of Welfare Reform","authors":"Lezlie Frye","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article revisits the \"crack baby epidemic\" of the 1980s and 90s through a critical disability lens. It examines how newly available rights-based discourses of disability underwrote the overlapping figures of the \"crack baby,\" the \"crack mother,\" and the \"welfare queen\" in ways that called up historical narratives of the Black family as fundamentally impaired. This racialization of disability was contrasted by a seemingly incommensurate process, wherein disability was increasingly incorporated into the national tableau of multicultural difference. I argue that in a moment marked by the institutionalization of multicultural neoliberalism, disability held the suggestive power of antiracism, which productively enabled the racial violence of state neglect. It thus presents a feminist disability genealogy that takes account of the history of welfare reform through and against the contemporaneous history of US disability rights and its crucial legislative victories. This draws attention to the racialized and gendered subjects hailed in different relation to the state: the \"crack baby\" vs. the special needs Child, the \"welfare queen\" versus the independent, productive disabled citizen. It also highlights the division between deserving and undeserving forms of dependency consolidated in welfare legislation in the 1990s. Ultimately refusing the perpetuation of anti-Black racism through deployments of disability, I perform a coalitional reading that makes feminist sense of the historical relationship between disability and anti-Blackness in this era.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126754913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the silent traumas, gendered violence, and unacknowledged resilience embedded in women's war stories from Sri Lanka's civil war (1983–2009) in the cookbook Handmade. Handmade is not a conventional cookbook. It is a collection of culinary life narratives that emerge from the depths of war to provide insider perspectives on the impact of war on the lives of women. I discuss the trajectory of the civil war and its postwar phases through the gastro-testimonials of Sri Lanka's Tamil women in the war-devastated regions of the Jaffna peninsula and the Vanni. The majority of the women featured in the cookbook are war widows. These women become the authors of their own life narratives when they use culinary ingenuity as the language of self-expression to tell their stories of suffering and survival. I demonstrate how the women's stories uncover important life narratives through a culinary mapping of war as a feminist act to argue that the cookbook is not a cultural artifact or a compendium of recipes. It is a testimonial narrative that uncovers the fractured lives that reside within and behind each recipe. The language of food formalizes the survival narratives of resilient Tamil women as they transition from invisibility to public disclosure through their cooking "against war."
{"title":"Gastro-testimonials in Handmade: Narrating the War Experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil Women through Food","authors":"B. Mehta","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the silent traumas, gendered violence, and unacknowledged resilience embedded in women's war stories from Sri Lanka's civil war (1983–2009) in the cookbook Handmade. Handmade is not a conventional cookbook. It is a collection of culinary life narratives that emerge from the depths of war to provide insider perspectives on the impact of war on the lives of women. I discuss the trajectory of the civil war and its postwar phases through the gastro-testimonials of Sri Lanka's Tamil women in the war-devastated regions of the Jaffna peninsula and the Vanni. The majority of the women featured in the cookbook are war widows. These women become the authors of their own life narratives when they use culinary ingenuity as the language of self-expression to tell their stories of suffering and survival. I demonstrate how the women's stories uncover important life narratives through a culinary mapping of war as a feminist act to argue that the cookbook is not a cultural artifact or a compendium of recipes. It is a testimonial narrative that uncovers the fractured lives that reside within and behind each recipe. The language of food formalizes the survival narratives of resilient Tamil women as they transition from invisibility to public disclosure through their cooking \"against war.\"","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134569706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:While second wave US feminism is thought to hold claim to the bold proposition that "the personal is political," nineteenth century early Black feminists had long underscored the relationship between varied intimate, interior experiences and the sociopolitical landscape. This article focuses on Ann Plato, the first documented Black woman essayist in the United States, who wrote about the death of four friends: Louisa Sebury, Julia Ann Pell, Eliza Loomis Sherman, and Elizabeth Low. Plato and her writings are an opening to examine the role of Black friendship in "first wave" feminism and interrogate who feminist theorists have come to consider as early feminists. The article de-centers preoccupations with bringing 19th century Black women and Black women's political subjectivity into view through the institution of the club. Excavating the multitude of ways that Black women, such as Plato, participated in political relationships offers a different lens to understand nineteenth century feminist sociality.
{"title":"\"First Wave\" Friendships: Ann Plato and Black Feminist Praxis","authors":"Andrea Y. Adomako","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While second wave US feminism is thought to hold claim to the bold proposition that \"the personal is political,\" nineteenth century early Black feminists had long underscored the relationship between varied intimate, interior experiences and the sociopolitical landscape. This article focuses on Ann Plato, the first documented Black woman essayist in the United States, who wrote about the death of four friends: Louisa Sebury, Julia Ann Pell, Eliza Loomis Sherman, and Elizabeth Low. Plato and her writings are an opening to examine the role of Black friendship in \"first wave\" feminism and interrogate who feminist theorists have come to consider as early feminists. The article de-centers preoccupations with bringing 19th century Black women and Black women's political subjectivity into view through the institution of the club. Excavating the multitude of ways that Black women, such as Plato, participated in political relationships offers a different lens to understand nineteenth century feminist sociality.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115483341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article theorizes trickle-up pedagogy and queer healing as oppositional to the neoliberal university's exploitation of historical trauma to meet its own "diversity" goals. Drawing from my experiences as an immigrant, raised-poor, queer woman of color in academia, I argue that when BIPOC women and femme educators teach about systemic violence, this can trigger intergenerational trauma, impacting our health. Meanwhile, institutional support for BIPOC women and femme faculty is lacking. Institutions of higher education largely benefit from the labor of BIPOC faculty, mobilizing capitalist and ableist logics that demand fast productivity in the name of "diversity," at the deterioration of our health. I propose what I call "trickleup pedagogy," influenced by Dean Spade's idea of "trickle-up" justice, as well as queer healing and spirituality as practices that refuse this extraction. While trickle-up pedagogy is invested in disrupting power dynamics in the classroom, radical queer healing and spirituality offer strategies to not only navigate and survive the neoliberal university but firmly teach in livable ways that nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits.
{"title":"Trickle-Up Pedagogy and Queer Healing: Navigating Historical Trauma in the Neoliberal University","authors":"S. Borges","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article theorizes trickle-up pedagogy and queer healing as oppositional to the neoliberal university's exploitation of historical trauma to meet its own \"diversity\" goals. Drawing from my experiences as an immigrant, raised-poor, queer woman of color in academia, I argue that when BIPOC women and femme educators teach about systemic violence, this can trigger intergenerational trauma, impacting our health. Meanwhile, institutional support for BIPOC women and femme faculty is lacking. Institutions of higher education largely benefit from the labor of BIPOC faculty, mobilizing capitalist and ableist logics that demand fast productivity in the name of \"diversity,\" at the deterioration of our health. I propose what I call \"trickleup pedagogy,\" influenced by Dean Spade's idea of \"trickle-up\" justice, as well as queer healing and spirituality as practices that refuse this extraction. While trickle-up pedagogy is invested in disrupting power dynamics in the classroom, radical queer healing and spirituality offer strategies to not only navigate and survive the neoliberal university but firmly teach in livable ways that nourish our bodies, minds, and spirits.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"60 3 Pt 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130623111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article is a project of historical recuperation and centering of the lesbian voices within Chicana feminism and Chicana Studies between 1980 and 2000. It argues that despite providing foundational theories critical to the development of Chicana feminist thought and Chicana Studies, public articulations of feminist discourse often reflected a heterocentric framing that invisibilized the lesbian roots of Chicana feminism. More than simply inserting lesbians into Chicana feminism, the author challenges lesbian erasure by naming the various articulations of lesbian feminism within Chicana feminist ideology and discourse. Employing a queer Chicana lens to read against the presumptive heteronormative grain, I examine the archival records of the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies [NACCS] to trace the trajectory of Chicana feminism's development and influence in the institutional space of Chicana/o Studies. Through this queer reading, in combination with oral histories from lesbian feminists involved in feminist activism within the association, I locate a lesbian imaginary within Chicana feminist thought and show that rather than existing in the background, lesbian feminism was fundamental to Chicana feminism, Chicana/o Studies, and NACCS.
{"title":"Of Chicana Lesbian Terrorists and Lesberadas: Recuperating the Lesbian/Queer Roots of Chicana Feminism, 1970–2000","authors":"Yvette J. Saavedra","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is a project of historical recuperation and centering of the lesbian voices within Chicana feminism and Chicana Studies between 1980 and 2000. It argues that despite providing foundational theories critical to the development of Chicana feminist thought and Chicana Studies, public articulations of feminist discourse often reflected a heterocentric framing that invisibilized the lesbian roots of Chicana feminism. More than simply inserting lesbians into Chicana feminism, the author challenges lesbian erasure by naming the various articulations of lesbian feminism within Chicana feminist ideology and discourse. Employing a queer Chicana lens to read against the presumptive heteronormative grain, I examine the archival records of the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies [NACCS] to trace the trajectory of Chicana feminism's development and influence in the institutional space of Chicana/o Studies. Through this queer reading, in combination with oral histories from lesbian feminists involved in feminist activism within the association, I locate a lesbian imaginary within Chicana feminist thought and show that rather than existing in the background, lesbian feminism was fundamental to Chicana feminism, Chicana/o Studies, and NACCS.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130563995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:"Chilly climate," as a concept, has been hugely influential in education studies. However, studies of people of color, genderqueer folx, men, and non-STEM graduate programs have been few and far between within this body of literature. So, too, have been interventions to address inhospitable learning environments at the collegiate level. In this paper, we advance a new analytic to study the experiences of people in the aforementioned populations: "intersectional spectrum of experience." We surveyed twenty-four graduate students across racial/ethnic and gender identities in two seminars in a "female-dominated" discipline. We found wide variability in perceptions of classroom equity by race and gender identity; men were least likely to attest to male superiority, and none of the men found the intervention to improve classroom equity helpful. We argue that "intersectional spectrum of experience" speaks to the ways in which gender and racial identity intersect to create a range of (un)ease in the classroom.
{"title":"Female Dominated? Male Monopolies in the Social Science PhD Seminar","authors":"S. Strings, Sabrina Nasir","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"Chilly climate,\" as a concept, has been hugely influential in education studies. However, studies of people of color, genderqueer folx, men, and non-STEM graduate programs have been few and far between within this body of literature. So, too, have been interventions to address inhospitable learning environments at the collegiate level. In this paper, we advance a new analytic to study the experiences of people in the aforementioned populations: \"intersectional spectrum of experience.\" We surveyed twenty-four graduate students across racial/ethnic and gender identities in two seminars in a \"female-dominated\" discipline. We found wide variability in perceptions of classroom equity by race and gender identity; men were least likely to attest to male superiority, and none of the men found the intervention to improve classroom equity helpful. We argue that \"intersectional spectrum of experience\" speaks to the ways in which gender and racial identity intersect to create a range of (un)ease in the classroom.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128347213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contemporary art and activism. It addresses the relationship between creativity, institutions, and empowerment. Building on the conceptual work of Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016), the article explores several aesthetic presentations of resistive temporalities we identify as non-production. The case studies of non-production herein marshaled affirm a performance of resistance that centers discussion of radicality in self-consciously interdependent care networks, ostensibly available to all disabled and nondisabled individuals. This care ethic claps back at the idea of self-optimization and fiduciary endurance amidst economic regimes of exploitation as virtuous. In the place of 'wellness,' this article affirms new directions in care and mutual aid, as premised on queer, crip, and feminist portrayals of disability praxis and pedagogy.
{"title":"How to Deal with a Bully: Debility, Non-Production, and Radical Care","authors":"David Loner, Maggie Rosenau","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines how resistance toward capitalism's temporal bullying is performed in contemporary art and activism. It addresses the relationship between creativity, institutions, and empowerment. Building on the conceptual work of Croatian artist Mladen Stilinović (1947–2016), the article explores several aesthetic presentations of resistive temporalities we identify as non-production. The case studies of non-production herein marshaled affirm a performance of resistance that centers discussion of radicality in self-consciously interdependent care networks, ostensibly available to all disabled and nondisabled individuals. This care ethic claps back at the idea of self-optimization and fiduciary endurance amidst economic regimes of exploitation as virtuous. In the place of 'wellness,' this article affirms new directions in care and mutual aid, as premised on queer, crip, and feminist portrayals of disability praxis and pedagogy.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114714659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elite universities saw huge gains on their endowments while community colleges are struggling to survive4 and lipservice to "diversity" does not translate into job security.5 We began this work with the conviction that transnational, intersectional collaborative strategies are urgently needed in response to the global rise of neo-nationalism within a persistent system of neoliberal racial capitalism: violence, poverty and displacement are escalating while wealth disparities continue to increase. Productivity translates into numbers and speed, resources are distributed based on seemingly neutral algorithms, while teaching and scholarship are assessed in terms of numerically measurable outcomes. [...]while right wing movements frame academia as a hub of subversive, radical thinking and activism, innovation and collaboration in the service of transformation often face institutional obstacles. The emphasis in the essays in this volume is not just on identifying injustice and violence but on creating paths for alternatives to emerge, to, with cover artist Althea Murphy-Price, position anew, create new spaces and paces, new materials, notions of beauty, and forms of resistance, to build communities and collaborations that will "imagine otherwise" (Sharpe 2006, 115)7 and make different collaborations and worlds possible. On Our Cover Art Althea Murphy-Price received her B.A. in Fine Art from Spelman College before completing her Master of Arts in Printmaking and Painting at Purdue University and her Master of Fine Arts at Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
{"title":"Editorial Introduction: Special Issue: Time, Urgency, and Collaboration in the Corporate University","authors":"Fatima El‐Tayeb, Maria Stehle","doi":"10.1353/ff.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Elite universities saw huge gains on their endowments while community colleges are struggling to survive4 and lipservice to \"diversity\" does not translate into job security.5 We began this work with the conviction that transnational, intersectional collaborative strategies are urgently needed in response to the global rise of neo-nationalism within a persistent system of neoliberal racial capitalism: violence, poverty and displacement are escalating while wealth disparities continue to increase. Productivity translates into numbers and speed, resources are distributed based on seemingly neutral algorithms, while teaching and scholarship are assessed in terms of numerically measurable outcomes. [...]while right wing movements frame academia as a hub of subversive, radical thinking and activism, innovation and collaboration in the service of transformation often face institutional obstacles. The emphasis in the essays in this volume is not just on identifying injustice and violence but on creating paths for alternatives to emerge, to, with cover artist Althea Murphy-Price, position anew, create new spaces and paces, new materials, notions of beauty, and forms of resistance, to build communities and collaborations that will \"imagine otherwise\" (Sharpe 2006, 115)7 and make different collaborations and worlds possible. On Our Cover Art Althea Murphy-Price received her B.A. in Fine Art from Spelman College before completing her Master of Arts in Printmaking and Painting at Purdue University and her Master of Fine Arts at Tyler School of Art, Temple University.","PeriodicalId":190295,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Formations","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133079057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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