Beyond Now: Intersectional Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education

• In Event: Rethinking and Imaging Futures Within and Beyond Intersectionality, Patriarchy, and the Borderlands

Abstract

Part of a larger intergenerational, interdisciplinary, feminist project, we will discuss how intersectional and transnational feminist research offers robust analyses of white, heteropatriarchal supremacy and neocolonialism within education. Akin to many before us, we argue that intersectional and decolonial scholarship can best push our field (and those adjacent) beyond normative politics and practices that continue to center western, white, and middle-class experiences to the exclusion of nationality, race, sexuality, and other markers of difference. Finally, by accounting for the relationships between our backgrounds, praxis, and value sets, we will discuss the benefits and challenges inherent within utilizing intersectional feminism to move beyond critique toward “in-the-streets mechanisms” for disrupting binary thinking and structural conditions that maintain oppression and violence.

Authors

• Melinda Lemke, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Angel Miles Nash, Wallace Foundation

• Hollie Mackey, North Dakota State University

• Michelle D. Young, University of California - Berkeley