Feminist Disruptions

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This invited panel on Feminist Disruptions is organized in honor of this year’s meeting theme, Disrupting the Status Quo, to focus our attention on current political threats faced by feminist scholars who study sex, gender, sexuality, and intersectionality across diverse domains to envision work that unsettles, reimagines, and dares us to rethink the field anew. This panel asks how we can envision and sustain vibrant futures for feminist scholarship, given the politically tenuous position of the field? Invited speakers will explore how scholars can be both politically and intellectually disruptive, use feminist imaginations to chart paths forward, critically engage the political hurdles facing our campus communities, and pursue fresh agendas in teaching, research, activism, and applied work.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Sex and Gender Section / Feminist Disruptions

Presider

• Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon

Panelists

• Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College

• Melanie Heath, McMaster University

• Nadia Y. Kim, Texas A&M University-College Station

• Daniela Franziska Jauk-Ajamie, University of Akron

• Whitney Nicole Laster Pirtle, University of California-Los Angeles

Session Organizers

• Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon

• Lindsey Trimble O'Connor, California State University-Channel Islands