DATE: February 26, 2021
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Please email [email protected] for the Zoom link
Shirley Anne Tate is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality based in the Sociology Department, University of Alberta, Canada. Her area of research is Black Diaspora Studies focusing on institutional racism, decoloniality, bodies and mixed race.
Her abstract: “I am a ‘wounded body stranger’ (Tate and Wahidin 2014) removed from myself so I do not feel psychic pain. However, pain emerges and I use it here drawing from Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals as an analytic frame to explore how as Black women we cope with an imposed silencing from within white feminism whilst maintaining subjective and Black feminist community cohesiveness. I look at psychic institutional pain in UK universities as locations of body and knowledge estrangement drawing on Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark and such pain is seen as both repressive and productive of Black feminist critique. Institutional pain can also be agentic, productive, when we notice that it is rooted in Lorde’s anger. ‘Mi vex’ recognizes the source of vexation, of Black feminist anger-pain, while repeating it as complaint and need for intersectional political action in order to continue to build Black feminist community.”
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