Transnational Feminist Resilience, Resistance and Solidarity in Times of COVID-19

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Roundtable participants will reflect on the systemic inequalities laid bare by the global pandemic as well as on the impact of the pandemic on transnational feminist praxis in Latin America, the Middle East, East Asia, and North America. In particular, participants will explore the effects of the prolonged closure and isolation caused by Covid-19 on transnational feminist praxis, resistance and organizing as well as on research and teaching. The session will end with participants elaborating on how a framework of transnational feminist solidarity could inform more effective responses to such challenges as a global pandemic in the future.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / VII. writing, researching, and thinking beyond race, place, and space

Moderator

• Christine (Cricket) Keating, University of Washington

Presenters

• Simona Sharoni, Merrimack College

• Laila Farah, DePaul University Women's and Gender Studies

• Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati

• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University

• Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University Women's and Gender Studies Program