Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 063: Breaking Free from Liberal White Supremacy to a Radical Feminist Collective: The Journey towards Building Intentional Community-Based, Insurgent Spaces in Sociology
Room: Crystal Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

Description: 

In 2024, scholars of color and their white accomplices left a feminist organization that had become increasingly exclusionary and unwelcoming, despite its leadership professing a commitment to intersectional feminism. Born out of a need for a space where radical, marginalized scholars could grow and support one another, the Radical Feminist Collective (RFC) was conceived as a non-hierarchical organization intentionally building community with non-academics. In this session, founding members of the RFC reflect on our first year growing pains. We hope to share some successful strategies for building more radical, insurgent spaces both in and outside of academia, particularly as it comes to uplifting and protecting one another as we continue to challenge the status quo in these times of crises.

Panelists:

Roberta Villalon, St. John’s University

Ranita Ray, The University of New Mexico

Florence Emily Castillo, Texas Christian University

Beatriz Padilla, University of South Florida

Brittany Battle, Wake Forest University

Pedrom Nasiri, University of Calgary

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