About this Course
This course explores the shifting, open, and curious questions around “praxis” (the act of theorizing and practicing simultaneously). Our examination will dive into readings that offer a range of antiracist-intersectional-transnational feminist and queer perspectives.
Thematic explorations include– what it means to do “ethical” research; exploring the problematics of ‘doing good’ for ‘others’; unpacking the non-profit industrial complex; examining “critical transnational feminist praxis”; thinking through complex accountabilities; and finally, imagining and working towards solidarities across many faultlines of complicity and privilege.
Below you can find the projects of students who explored the struggle related to a social justice movement either in the U.S. or elsewhere
ReMerge and Women’s Incarceration in Oklahoma: An Analysis of Positionality and Power
by Hayden Floyd and Sophia Blaschke
Power, positionality, and structural inequalities within Oklahoma’s carceral system target Black, Indigenous, and low-income mothers. Through conversations with ReMerge, a diversion program, and Dr. Romarilyn Ralston, we learned how policies, policing, and trauma shape women’s pathways into incarceration. Our goal was to learn from and build solidarity with ReMerge – while also exploring the power and positionalities that are seen in within the program itself.
