Resist, persist, desist: building solidarity from Grandma Ella through baby Angela to the Women’s March

Autor: Chelsi West Ohueri, Bisola Falola
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Gender, Place & Culture. 24:722-740
ISSN: 1360-0524
0966-369X
DOI: 10.1080/0966369x.2017.1335291
Popis: This article brings together geographical and anthropological perspectives to explore how the Women’s March, as an intersectional resistance movement, has opened up possibilities for solidarity as much as it has created fraught spaces of inclusion. Through a black feminist reading of resistance, self-care, and solidarity, we explore this moment of political emergence and connect it to a broader arc of resistance, passed and felt through black women’s bodies and geographies. We employ a feminist narrative empiricism to blend ethnographic retelling with fiction and use the composite character of Angela to highlight the textures and tensions of mobilizing resistance. This narrative, set against the backdrop of the Women’s March, follows Angela, a middle-aged black woman, as she moves through modes of resistance, persistence, and desistance, and as she connects movements spurred by the recent U.S. presidential election to those entangled with past and everyday spaces of resistance traversed by black w...
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