Feminist Keywords

Feminist Keywords introduces readers to a set of terms that will aid them in understanding the central methodological and political stakes currently energizing feminist and queer studies. The volume deepens the analyses of this field by highlighting justice-oriented intersectional movements and foregrounding Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from queer and women of color justice movements. Many of the keywords featured in this publication call attention to the fundamental assumptions of humanism’s political and intellectual debates—from the racialized contours of property and ownership to eugenicist discourses of improvement and development. Interventions to these frameworks arise out of queer, feminist and anti-racist engagements with matter and ecology as well as efforts to imagine forms of relationality beyond settler colonial and imperialist epistemologies Reflecting the interdisciplinary breadth of the field, this collection of seventy essays by scholars across the social sciences and the humanities weaves together methodologies from science and technology studies, affect theory, and queer historiographies, as well as Black Studies, Latinx Studies, Asian American, and Indigenous Studies. Taken together, these essays move alongside the distinct histories and myriad solidarities of the fields to construct the much awaited Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Queer 07/25/2024

Sexuality 07/20/2024

Sex Work 07/19/2024

Settler Colonialism 07/18/2024

Property 07/15/2024

Migration 07/15/2024

Intersectionality 07/12/2024

Intersectionality In this episode of Feminist Keywords, host Amber Musser interviews Jennifer Nash, the author of the keyword 'Intersectionality.' They discuss the definition and utility of intersectionality, its global travels, and the anxiety and contestation surrounding the term. They also explore the politics of intersectionality, its relationship to Black feminist scholarship, and its misinterpretation by the right. Nash emphasizes the importance of grounding intersectionality in a critical race tradition and reclaiming it as a tool for understanding power and fostering coalition. The conversation highlights the need to challenge dominant narratives and institutions in order to create more inclusive and hospitable spaces. Jennifer C. Nash is the Jean Fox O'Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography (Duke University Press, 2014); Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Duke University Press, 2018), Birthing Black Mothers (Duke University Press, 2021), and How We Write Now: Living With Black Feminist Theory (forthcoming with Duke University Press in August 2024). Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” University of Chicago Legal Forum University of Chicago Law Forum 1 (1989): 139-167. Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43.6 (1991): 1241-1299. () May, Vivian M. Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist. New York: Routledge, 2012: Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021 /episode/index/show/f08045ba-2b11-40cc-a920-3152a9437d01/id/32113927

Heterosexuality 07/12/2024

Heteronormativity 07/12/2024

Health 07/11/2024

Flesh 07/10/2024

Flesh In this episode of Feminist Keywords, host Amber Musser interviews Tiffany King, author of the entry 'Flesh' in the book Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. They discuss the intersection of Black and Indigenous feminisms, the significance of the term 'flesh', and its resonance in the current political moment. They also explore the connection between flesh and cultural texts, as well as the different levels at which flesh can be understood. The conversation highlights the importance of understanding and valuing the experiences of marginalized communities. Tiffany Lethabo King holds the Barbara and John Glynn Research Professorship in Democracy and Equity and is associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (2020). Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (2024). More Reading: Awkward-Rich, Cameron The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022). Harjo, Joy. Remember. Strawberry Press, 1981. Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, NYU Press, 2021. (editors: Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Amber Musser, Karma Chavez, Mishuana Goeman and Kyla Wazana Tompkins). 2021 Moraga, Cherríe, and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color. Kitchen Table Press, 1983. Morrison, Toni. "Beloved. 1987." New York: Plume 252 (1988). Snorton, C. Riley. Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity. U of Minnesota Press, 2017. Spillers, Hortense J. "Mama's baby, papa's maybe: An American grammar book." diacritics 17, no. 2 (1987): 65-81. /episode/index/show/f08045ba-2b11-40cc-a920-3152a9437d01/id/32113897