Feminisms Here & Now

#FHN18: interdisciplinary conference at @UNC, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1; developed by @UNCDeptComm and @geographyunc graduate students.

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Thank you to our staff panel for sharing their experience, knowledge, and unique perspectives on doing this work. A powerful panel. #FHN19

[Sara Smith @GeogSara]

Fortunate to be in the room with some of my favorite geographers!! At Feminism Here and Now✨

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The #FHN19 closing panel made up of university staff discussing difficult work and difficult attachments is happening now! Awesome.

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These women discuss inability to go outside, to live fully in their "home places." Enabled a view of the intimate connection between repro justice and environmental conditions - law, business - impacts family connective, historical practices, food practices, etc. #FHN19

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Dr. Danielle Purifoy (@scalawagmag) is presenting on "difficult attachments" in her recent questions and work.

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Discussing Eastern North Carolina and sets up community situation (racialized, hog farming and big agg business take over). Profoundly attrocious conditions impacts health of animals and people. High impact on Elder black women and young children. #FHN19

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Current struggles often echo historical struggles.They demand attention 2 these histories and their stickiness to progress narratives. Effects: centering whiteness, focusing on individual effects (legal/policy frames) not structures/systems, & makes the state a "partner." #FHN19

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Dr. Julie Kubala is now presenting on "difficult attachments" enduring since the 1970s particularly anti-violence movements. Focus on "progress narratives" as sites where we get stuck. Must UNSTICK such attachments and repetitions of narratives that reattach problems. #FHN19

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E.g. using difference to support universalizing (case of sexual, gendered violence) supports progress narratives, pushes out differences b/t women. Builds and rebuilds attachments that work against liberatory goals. #FHN19

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Views transness as a sacred embodiment that allows for other ways of knowing and being w/o recognition and push into ontological revolution. #FHN19

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Dr. Coleman's talk explores black/brown transness, Spirit (quiet as oneness as subjectivity not predicated on recognition), and ontological nothingness (not being). Difficult attachment to afropessimism. #FHN19

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Dr. Daniel Coleman is now presenting on Quiet in relation to "difficult attachments" from basis in performance, racialized trans experience, and activism. Quietness ruptures with or perhaps into these ... #FHN19

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When we give up some attachments we grow. One of the hardest attachments to give up is with species. Blackness literally dogs our attachments to species...it is perhaps a tale of fugitivity and longing. #FHN19

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How we manage our attachments to each other as scholars in fierce work together is perhaps the most important thing - about attachments - in this work. #FHN19

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Faculty panel kicking off with Dr. Sharon Holland on "difficult attachments" #FHN19

[Sara Smith @GeogSara]

Very grateful and inspired to learn so much from these folks this morning!! Come on out for the rest of the conference!
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Awesome community organizations panel!!! Thank you to our panel members for sharing their work and experience. The #FHN19 attendees riveted and engaged in this recentering of knowledge producers!

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Another panelist answer: refuse to let capitalism take "self-care." Liberation is a state of being that we must work on within the context of hostile environments. If it doesn't feel good find a way to say no or bring in something that does feel good to support needs.

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QA: what are panel's thoughts activist self-care? Trying to orient more to resilience (self care less productive and accessible). Building protective spaces, shields, strength in community. How to stand up to toxicity of daily life in fully embodied, mental, emotional ways.