Seminar: Anticolonial Feminisms

Anticolonial Feminisms (meeting Saturdays, 5:00 pm in the back room of Cafe Allegro):

Feb. 19 meeting: Many of us won’t be in Seattle! Instead, we will get together on the 26 for a screening of the film “Paris Is Burning,” accompanied by selection from bell hooks and potentially Judith Butler. Those documents will be uploaded soon.

RESOURCE LIST

Stage 1:

• La Guera [Cherrie Moraga]
• Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers [Gloria Anzaldua]
• A Black Feminist Statement [Combahee River Collective]
• The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action [Audre Lorde]
• First three selections are from This Bridge Called My Back, which we may use to ground entire seminar.

Stage 2:

• A Transfeminist Manifesto [Emi Koyama]
• Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice [TransJustice]
• Dismantling Cissexual Privilege [Julia Serano]
• A Time to Hole Up and a Time to Kick Ass: Reimagining Activism as a Million Different Ways to Fight [Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha]
• Selections from Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras [ed. Gloria Anzaldua]

Stage 3:

• Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity [Chandra Mohanty]
• US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World [Chela Sandoval]
• Difference: “A Special Third World Women Issue” [Trinh T. Minh-Ha]

Stage 4:

• Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? [Dorothy Roberts]
• Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health and Human Rights [Loretta Ross, Sarah Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriguez, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project]
• Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment [Syd Lindsley]

Stage 5:

• Private Fists and Public Force: Race, Gender, and Surveillance [Anannya Bhattacharjee]
• Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color [Andrea J. Ritchie]
• Beyond Restorative Justice: Radical Organizing Against Violence [Andrea Smith]

Stage 6:

• Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex [Critical Resistance—INCITE!]
• The Prison Industrial Complex in Indigenous California [Stormy Ogden]
• Queering Antiprison Work: African American Lesbians in the Juvenile Justice System [Beth Ritchie]

Stage 7:

• The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [Dylan Rodríguez]
• Are the Cops in Our Heads and Hearts? [Paula X. Rojas]
• Pursuing a Radical Anti-Violence Agenda Inside/Outside a Non-Profit Structure [Alisa Bierria, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA)]

Stage 8:

• So Much to Remind Us We Are Dancing on Other People’s Blood: Moving Toward Artistic Excellence, Moving from Silence to Speech, Moving in Water, with Ananya Dance Theater [Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, Ananya]
• The Other History of Intercultural Performance [Coco Fusco]
• BOMB Magazine Interview 1993 on Performance Piece: Year of the White Bear: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West [Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Penia]

This is a sketch and nothing here is mandatory: we prefer collaboration to inflexible adherence to an outline. Each stage could take 1-3 weeks to discuss before moving forward, and we will be working with guest participants as well as going out to events and actions. This seminar will last as long as its members want to stay engaged, and we will adapt the pace of each week to our own needs. You can email suggestions to antechamberuw@gmail.com.

The Antechamber Collective supports autonomous forms of education that dissolve conventional distinctions between academics and community-based action, on the one hand, and between student and professional authority on the other. If you would like to propose a seminar topic of your own, or if you have an ongoing reading group, we will help publicize it. Students can and should educate themselves.