Plural Feminisms

Sohini Chatterjee is PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at The University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her work has recently been published in Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal, South Asian Popular Culture, and Fat Studies. Sohini was previously a Non-Fiction Project Editor at HYSTERIA: Feminisms Radicalism Periodical and Activist Platform and is currently an academic podcaster at New Books Network.Po-Han Lee is Assistant Professor in the Global Health Program and the Institute of Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. Po-Han has been a member of Feminist Review Collective and a senior editor for Plain Law Movement, the first multimedia platform for legal and human rights education in Taiwan. He recently published the book, Towards Gender Equality in Law (2020), which he co-edited with Gizem Guney and David Davies.

Plural Feminisms is a deeply feminist text offering contemporary insights from those who resist the neo-liberal orthodoxy of the academy. The authors reflect upon what it means to be a feminist, uncover the different narratives and forms that resistance takes, and show the socio-cultural and political value of subversion.

• About the Editors and ContributorsAcknowledgementsEditorial Introduction Sohini Chatterjee (University of Western Ontario, Canada) and Po-Han Lee (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)PART ONE WITNESSING AND INHABITING INTERSECTIONALITY1.Multitemporality and Feminist Resistance in TransitionCorin Parsons (University of British Columbia, Canada)2.Walking the “Feminist Tightrope”: Navigating Feminist Identities within Anti-Violence Work with MenMadison Brockbank (McMaster University, Canada)3.Queerly Mad: Cripping Grief and Post-Traumatic Fibromyalgia SyndromeKody Muncaster, (Western University, Canada)4.Why all the Black Women Sit Together on the U-Bahn? Black Femme Resistance in GermanyMadeline Bass, Cienna Davis, Nasheeka Nedsreal, Laetitia Walendom5.Feminist Practices in Architecture: How Women Develop Resistance Through Criticism and ActionMaria Silvia D’Avolio, (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)PART TWO EMBODIED ANTI-NORMATIVITY AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE6.Against ‘the Devil from Within’: Doing Feminism through Re-Membering the Multiple SelvesPo-Han Lee7.Neoliberal Precarity and Neuroqueer Possibility: Exploring Care, Kinship, and Relational Becoming as ResistanceSohini Chatterjee8.Aazhawigamig (the Space Between Two lodges): An indigenous Matricentric Feminist Perspective on Mothering and Resistance as Everyday PraxisRenée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard, (Western University, Canada)9.Settler Theory and Feminisms Beyond Compulsory Relating: A Polyqueer AutoethnographyRowan J. Quirk10.A Reflexive Consideration of the Apocalyptic ChildE. Scherzinger, (McMaster University, Canada)11.Exploring Emotional Vulnerability in Autoethnography: Unpacking and Rethinking Everyday TraumaYi-Hui Lin, Independent ResearcherPART THREE CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS FEMINIST INTERVENTION12.Feminist Praxis in Exile: A Collaborative AutoethnographyGülden Özcan, Simten Cosar, (Carleton University, Canada)13.Confronting Contradictions, Chasing a Feeling: “Witchy,” Feminist Pandemic Teaching as Spiritual ActivismKascindra Shewan, McGill University, Canada)14.Taking up Sites of Resistance in the Neoliberal University: Re-imagining Ways of Learning and BelongingElizabeth Chelsea Mohler, (University of Western Ontario, Canada)15.Anti-Carceral Feminism: Abolitionist Conversations on Gender-Based ViolenceMaria Silvia D’Avolio, Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, (University of Brighton, UK), Deanna Dadusc, (University of Brighton, UK)