This week, we think through agency and resistance, as concepts for #FeministTheory, besides looking at some empirical instances of feminist protest and women in protest. We read, of course, Saba Mahmood in @culanth (supplementary reading by @SBangstad, very good critical take).

We also read a fav of mine, The Romance of Resistance which traces transformations of power through Bedouin women's everyday resistance, by Lila Abu-Lughod.

When it comes to thinking about what feminist resistance looks like today, in the digital age, we read, on Kenyan digital cultures, @Nanjala1 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/706810/pdf

Last, we read Barbara Ransby's Making All Black Lives Matter, where she shows how #BLM is 'grounded in the US-based Black feminist tradition, embraces an
intersectional analysis while insisting on the
interlocking and interconnected nature of
different systems of oppression'.

This is SUCH a good, teachable book, especially, I think for our students, here in South Africa, who may- or not - know the deep feminist, queer and radical left activist histories of the black lives matters movement, as well as the disillusionment with the Obama years.