Julie Shayne, PhD Lecturer Univ Washington, Bothell Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Affiliate Associate Professor Univ Washington, Seattle Gender, Women,

Scholarship, Activism, and Activist Scholarship in the Americas

Julie Shayne, PhDLecturer

Univ Washington, BothellInterdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

Affiliate Associate ProfessorUniv Washington, Seattle

Gender, Women, and Sexuality StudiesLatin American and Caribbean Studies

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Taking Risks:Feminist Stories of Social Justice Research in the Americas

Under contract with SUNY Press Under review for Praxis: Theory in Action series

Case studies about social movements

Combined w/ discussions of

activist-scholar tensions

Image by Claudia Denegri; accessed fromhttp://ilga.org/ilga/en/article/n01NvGz1mP

About the authorsDegrees

Romance Languages & Lit

Cultural Studies Psychology &

Quantitative Methods Women’s Studies American Studies Theater Latin American History English Teaching Sociology Cultural & Social Anthro

Departments Spanish Psychology African Studies Theater Education Writing Program Latin American Lit Cultural Studies Creative Writing Interdisciplinary Arts

& Sciences Anthropology

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About the bookCases: Underground libraries, human rights & theater, feminist community media & video, domestic violence & immigrants, sex work advocacy, exile, rural feminism, and writing & reading as activism

Themes: Stories; fusion of activism, scholarship, theory, & reflection: praxis; resulting academic tensions

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Margaret RandallPreface

Margaret Randall, writer, poet, photographer, activist, and professor talks about decades of taking political, personal, and academic risks

Background image fromhttp://www.margaretrandall.org

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Julie Shayne & Kristy LeissleResearch, Risk, and Activism: Feminists’ Stories

of Social Justice

Themes in the Intro:1) Passion project2) Activist scholarship3) Stories4) The book as transnational feminist theory5) About risks

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Section one:

Texts, Stories, and

Activism

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Carmen RodríguezWriting and Activism

Power of language to oppress and liberate

Tension:Exile Image from the Ottawa

International Writers Festival webpage

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Mahala LettvinAbsence in Memories: Reading Stories of

Survival in Argentina

Representation of memory and absence in fiction and national monuments

Tension:Why read?

Why learn? Photos from: Dolff-Bonekamper, Gabi. (2002). “Sites of hurtful memory.” In Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter. 17.2 Summer

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Julie ShayneChilean Exiles and Their Feminist

Stories

Chilean exile feminism in Vancouver, BC

Tension: Sociology vs. social history

Images from They Used to Call Us Witches (Lexington 2009)

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Marisela Fleites-LearNavigating the Cuban Ideological Divide: Research

on the Independent Libraries Movement

Independent library movement in Cuba

Tension: Academic

freedom versus political activism

Photo by: Orlando Luis Pardohttp://vocescubanas.com/

boringhomeutopics

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Section two:

Performed Stories of

Social Justice

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Tamera MarkoWe Also Built the City of Medellín: Deplazadas’ Family Albums as Feminist Archival Activism

Counter-narratives of Medellín in their own wordsTensions: Building a transnational archive

among community and academy;

mobility of stories vs. mobility of the

women who tell them

Photos by Tamera Marko

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Robin GarciaWho Owns the Archive: Community Media

in Contemporary Venezuela

Community media collectives in Venezuela

TensionActivist

scholarship & intl. solidarity

Photos by Robin Garcia

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Christina MarínEchoes of Injustice: Performative Activism and the

Femicide Plaguing Ciudad Juárez

Uncovering the stories of the women of Ciudad Juarez

Tension: Insider/outsider engagement in

human rights issues through artistic representation

Photo by ©Jorge Uzon/AFP, Amnesty International

http://www.utsa.edu/today/2003/11/juarez.cfm

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Section three:

Activist Stories from

the Grassroots

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Erica WilliamsFeminist Tensions: Race, Sex

Work, and Women’s Activism in Bahia

Sex worker advocacy in Bahia, Brazil

Tension:How being an

African American woman, often

presumed to be a sex worker, effected

her research

“Without shame of being a prostitute … Without shame, garota. You have a profession”

From: http://www.pautafria.blogger.com.br/

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Roberta VillalónLatina Battered Immigrants, Citizenship and Inequalities:

Reflections on Activist Research

Latina immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence struggles for autonomy & citizenship in the U.S.

Tensions: Researcher/activist

and insider/outsider “My Soul Has Survived” by Andrea Wellnetz

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Shelly GrabeRural Feminism and Revolution in

Nicaragua: Voices of the Compañeras

Discussion of rural feminism in Nicaragua

Tension:Oral history vs.

quantitative psychology From: Movimiento Autónomo de

Mujeres (MAM) facebook.

Background image from This Week In History webpage

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Julie Shayne and Kristy LeissleConclusion:

Interdisciplinarity and Privilege

Interdisciplinary spaces are more open to activist scholarshipandactivist scholars must use our cultural capital in service of social justice

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Julie ShayneAfterward: Mother’s Day

Personal narrative on career versus quality of life

Anacortes, WA (Sept ‘11)Lopez Island, WA (Sept ‘12)

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Contact [email protected]

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425.352.3182