What I Am Thinking About Now: Keisha-Khan Perry, “Black Women, Violence and the Fight for the City in the Americas”

Please join us for a “What I Am Thinking About Now” presentation by Keisha-Khan Perry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.

Black Women, Violence and the Fight for the City in the Americas
This presentation draws from her ongoing transnational feminist research on how poor black women leading the struggle against forced dispossession have unveiled the gendered racial and homophobic dimensions of urban renewal practices and discourses. This intersectional political praxis in anti-eviction movements has broadened the perspective that the violence of militarized police forces used to maintain spatial order is rooted in white supremacist patriarchy and homophobia. This work underscores the call for feminist scholars to return our analyses to the material issues that are at the heart of women-led grassroots struggles globally, and that informed feminist thought in the first place.

RSVP: [email protected]. Snacks and caffeine will be provided.

“What I Am Thinking About Now” is an on-going informal workshop/seminar series to which faculty and graduate students are invited to present and discuss recently published work and work in progress. All are invited to attend and participate.