35.026 - Sexual Violence and Intersectionality: VOICING Curriculum Understandings [#GetFreeWithDivB]

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Globally, sexual violence entangled with patriarchal norms, has been perpetuated for generations. Contemporary iterations of conversations and issues bridging sexual harassment inside and outside of higher education (i.e., Stolen Sisters, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada, murdered LadyBoys of the Philippines) to the #MeToo Movement, serve as the impetus for this session on curriculum understandings of sexual violence and intersectionality. This session focuses on intersectionality, informed by the scholarship of Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, at the nexus of sexual violence for women of color. It considers questions such as, whose voices (knowledge) matter in movements connected to sexual violence, who determines the answers, and what is the positionality of women of color in this knowledge construction/composition?

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Keffrelyn D. Brown, The University of Texas at Austin

Participants

• Boni Wozolek, Loyola University Maryland

• Ganiva Reyes, Miami University - Oxford

Discussants

• Kirsten T. Edwards Williams, University of Oklahoma

• Nichole A. Guillory, Kennesaw State University