Badass Feminist Politics : : Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism / / ed. by Janell C. Bauer, Sarah Jane Blithe.

In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.) :; 8 b&w images, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Badass Activities for Threading Together Theory, Pedagogy, and Activism
  • Part 1 Black Lives Matter
  • Introduction
  • 3 Being Black in the Ivory: Telling Our Truth and Taking Up Space
  • 4 #BlackIndigenous StoriesMatter
  • 5 Your Black Friends Are Tired
  • 6 Inciting Change with My Keyboard: Leveraging Hashtag Activism to Fight Anti-Black Racism during COVID-19
  • 7 The Reality of Our Dreams: Black Lives’ Fears
  • 8 Black Women in Black Lives Matter: Navigating Being Both Engaged and Dismissed
  • 9 Antiracist Holistic Change in “STEM” Higher Education
  • 10 Fighting for Black Studies: An Essay about Educational Empowerment
  • 11 When You Can’t Call the Cops: Intimate Partner Violence and #BlackLivesMatter
  • 12 Discovering Your Social Justice Gift amid the Distraction of Systemic Racism
  • 13 Sexuality in My Reality: An Autoethnography of a Black Woman’s Resistance of Sexual Stereotypes
  • 14 The Forgotten Ones (for Those Who Survive Black Death)
  • 15 Performative Activism: Inauthentic Allyship in the Midst of a Racial Pandemic
  • Part 2 Narrating the Material Body
  • Introduction
  • 16 Nevertheless, She Feels Pretty: A Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography on Fat Persistence and Resistance
  • 17 Visual Activism, Persistence, and Identity: Ostomy Selfies as a Form of Resistance to Dominant Body Ideologies
  • 18 The Silence of Laughter
  • Part 3 Living Feminist Politics in Mediated Environments
  • Introduction
  • 19 Mónica Robles: (De?)colonizing Mexican Womanhood through the Power of Memes
  • 20 Smart Talk: Feminist Communication Questions for Artificial Intelligence
  • 21 The Silencing of Elizabeth Warren: A Case of Digital Persistence
  • Part 4 New Feminist Theorizing
  • Introduction
  • 22 Social Justice Organizing through the Closet Metaphor
  • 23 Disrupting the Ratchet-Respectable Binary: Explorations of Ratchet Feminism and Ratchet Respectability in Daily and Popular Life
  • 24 Afrofuturist Lessons in Persistence
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index