Curriculum — Southern Feminist theory

[For an exam we had to come up with a six-week curriculum. Following the lead of Head Bbz Gorata, here’s mine! Links given where full text can be found online. The other texts are found through university institutions/textbooks but if you looking for it and can’t find it, lmk]

google ‘gulabi gang’

Week 1: Intersectionality/Difference

· Puar, Jasbir. (2007) “Queer Times, Queer Assemblages,” in Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham: Duke University Press.

· McMillan-Cottom, Tressie. (2015) “Intersectionality and Critical Engagement With The Internet” in The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online (eds.) Safiya U. Noble and Bredesha Tynes. Peter Lang Publishing. pp. 1–30.

· Nash, Jennifer. (2008) Re-thinking Intersectionality. Feminist Review (89). pp 1–15.

· Cho Sumi, Crenshaw W. Kimberlé and McCall Leslie (2013) “Intersectionality: Theorizing Power, Empowering Theory” in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 38 (4). pp. 785–810.

via Simamkele Dlakavu, one of the editors of this edition of Agenda

Week 2: Privilege/Oppression

· Grace, Andi. (2017) Power under abuse. Witch Cabinet. Accessed from https://witchcabinet.com/blogs/andi-grace/power-under-abuse-what-it-is-and-how-to-heal on 20 November 2017.

· Jackson, Lauren-Michelle. (2017) We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs. Teen Vogue. Accessed at https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs on 20 November 2017.

· Contraband Cape Town. (2015) Luister. Youtube. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3rTBQTQk4 on 20 November 2017.

· Dosekun, Simidele. (2015) “For Western Girls Only?” Postfeminism as transnational culture” in Feminist Media Studies 15(6): pp. 960–975.

Goddessa!

Week 3: Empire/State

· Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. (2016) Chapter Seven. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. (eds) Taylor and Ellis. Chicago: Haymarket Books, pp. 191–219.

· Davis, Angela. (1981) “Communist Women” in Women, Race, Class. New York: Random House. pp. 149–172.

· Haupt, Adam. (2008) “Hip-Hop, gender and co-option in the age of Empire” in Stealing Empire P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion. Cape Town: HSRC Press. pp. 142–182

· Bahadur, Gaiutra. (2014) “Into Dark Waters” and “Her Middle Passage” in Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. pp. 41–75.

view from WISER, Braamfontein

Week 4: Escape/Confinement

· Berlant, Lauren. 2006. “Cruel Optimism” in differences: A journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17 (3): 20–36.

· Davis, Angela. (2013) Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the 21st Century. Beyond Capitalism Now. Accessed from https://beyondcapitalismnow.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/angela-y-davis-feminism-and-abolition-theories-and-practices-for-the-21st-century/ on 20 November 2017

· Radloff, Jennifer. (2013) “Digital Security as Feminist Practice” in Feminist Africa: e-spaces, e-politics. Cape Town: African Gender Institute. 18. pp. 145 -156.

· Ranganathan, Nayantara. (2017) Caution! Women at Work: Surveillance in Garments Factories. Internet Democracy Project. Accessed on https://genderingsurveillance.internetdemocracy.in/cctv/ on 20 November 2017.

Week 5: Self-making/Looks

· Cooper, Brittney. (2016) Rethinking Intersectionality: A Conversation about Gender, Race, and Popular Culture. Youtube. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyCiq4hDsM8&t=3629s on 20 November 2017.

· i-D. (2017) Mykki Blanco Celebrates Johannesburg’s Born-Free Queer Artists and Activists — Full Film. Youtube. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXWQT486_E on 20 November 2017.

· Mahmood, Saba. (2011) “The subject of freedom” in Politics of Piety. Princeton: Princeton University press. pp. 1–39.

· Pham, Minh-Ha T. (2015) “I click and post and breathe, waiting for others to see what I see”: On #FeministSelfies, Outfit Photos, and Networked Vanity” in Fashion Theory. 19 (2). pp. 221–241.

· Dosekun, Simidele. (2016) “Editorial: The politics of fashion and beauty in Africa” in Feminist Africa: The politics of fashion and beauty in Africa. Cape Town: African Gender Institute. 21. pp. 1–7.

Fatima Meer did a series of paintings and illustrations while imprisoned in Women’s Gaol. This is one of them.

Week 6: Building/Breaking

· Newman, Jabu. (2016) Foxy Five TV. Youtube. Accessed from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_B4s3g1VZ3i9FneX4T6sDQ on 20 November 2017.

· Sokoloff-Rubin Emma and Rubin W. Jeffrey. (2013) Demanding a Voice, Enduring Silence: Lessons from a Brazilian Women’s Movement. Dissent Magazine. Accessed from https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/demanding-a-voice-enduring-silence-lessons-from-a-brazilian-womens-movement on 20 November 2017.

· Patel, Shailja. (2013) Politics of Contempt. The New Inquiry. Accessed from https://thenewinquiry.com/politics-of-contempt/ on 21 November 2017.

· McGuire, Anne. (2010). “Disability, Non-disability and the Politics of Mourning: Re-conceiving the ‘we’”. Disability Studies Quarterly. 30. Accessed from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297657491_Disability_Non-disability_and_the_Politics_of_Mourning_Re-conceiving_the_%27we%27 on 20 November 2017.

· Ahmed, Sara. (2017) A Killjoy Survival Kit in Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press. pp 235 -249.