{"title":"Do palavrão ao diálogo: A performatividade do feminismo contra os jogos vorazes da linguagem patriarcal","authors":"Marcia Tiburi","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article starts from the issue of misogynistic violence against the words feminism and feminist in an attempt to understand the basis of the more recent hatred of the word gender. The word gender has been used against itself in misogynistic theories such as the pseudo-criticism of “gender ideology.” Misogyny is the official discourse of patriarchy, whose basic strategy is to treat everything that refers to the non-masculine as negative in a perpetual action that we can call active prejudice. Misogyny is also the “performative” operator by which one understands in what sense one is speaking, i.e., there is no hate without discourse. If gender is performative (Butler) it is because language is performative (Austin) and words define fields of action and forms of action. Gender is something that is created in phallogocentric language for the submission and subjugation of bodies. Patriarchal society is phallocratic in which men are agents of power and violence and women and LGBTQI+ people are objects of these violences that entail the most basic epistemological violence given in the attitude of defining and naming. If patriarchy is discursive, feminism is dialogical. The following text seeks to open paths for this reflection.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"65 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48000740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership, Education, Advocacy, and Development (LEAD): A Latina Leadership and Community Engagement Model on the US-Mexico Border","authors":"G. Nunez-Mchiri, Areli Chacón Silva","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents the Leadership, Education, Advocacy, and Development (LEAD) initiative, as an emerging leadership and community engagement model for Latinas in the El Paso del Norte Border Region. Through a community-university partnership, this initiative was a response to a call to action generated from a series of consultations between researchers and Latinas that took place in public libraries and community centers in El Paso, Texas. This call to action led to the LEAD initiative, an executive leadership curriculum for Latinas to address their needs and priorities in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. This study presents a unique leadership model that combines leadership studies with community engagement and social justice. This example of feminist praxis applies leadership knowledge and skills toward improving the personal and collective quality of life for women and their families.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"122 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42593912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epistemopolíticas del Border","authors":"Sayak Valencia","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:El objetivo de este ensayo es repensar, resituar y actualizar algunas reflexiones sobre el pensamiento (trans)feminista fronterizo y su oposición a la dinámica ejercida por lxs Doctorxs Blancxs del Norte, quiénes no solo insisten en explicarnos nuestros mundos desde sus perspectivas, sesgos y privilegios, sino que además expropian y se apropian de nuestra producción de conocimiento y, tras blanquearlo, edulcorarlo y despolitizarlo nos devuelven nuestros conceptos en su idioma “sin acento” y con copyright para citar (según MLA o Chicago) como requisito principal para ingresar a un mundo de extractivismo académico que aún les rinde pleitesía.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"43 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48670059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nosotras Paramos (desde Cuba): Manifiesto escrito en 2017 para Huelga Mundial de Mujeres","authors":"Marta María Ramírez","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"38 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42389453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Nepantlera in the Academy: Sowing Seeds con El Hilo","authors":"A. Mendoza","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2018, several months after news broke about thousands of children separated at the US border, I was asked to help with translation at a detention center. The time I spent alongside attorneys, other translators, and mental health workers assisting families through the beginning stages of the asylum process helped me realize standard research practices alone cannot offer the care and human connection necessary in justice work. I offer a theorization of knowledge-making rooted in organizer/activist praxis that centers relationality and reflexivity to disrupt distanced and disconnected research. Using my lived experience, I illustrate how tensions arise for scholar/activists that offer us opportunities to see both the limitations and possibilities of scholar/activism. I also posit that although ideas and discourse about theory into action and activism are welcomed, scholar/activism toward actionable change remains heavily policed. I ground this paper in autohistoria-teoría to illustrate its praxis by moving between poetry, theory-building, and witnessing accounts, to make visible the tensions, conflicts, and negotiations of this work.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"104 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48516048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Restorative Kinship: How a Local Movement of Women of Color Transforms Family Relationships","authors":"Jennifer E. Cossyleon","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article illuminates how collective action shapes the kinship relationships of women of color leading a local restorative justice movement in Chicago. Using forty-seven in-depth interviews with community organizers and fifteen months of participant observations of local collective action as evidence, I highlight the intersecting processes of collective action and family life. Findings elucidate how leaders in the study, most of whom are African American and Latina mothers and grandmothers, coproduced community organizing and family life. Leaders incorporate community organizing training sessions and skills within their intimate kinship relationships. They engage in what I call restorative kinship, an intentional practice of advancing the social and emotional healing of relationships through the use of community organizing repertoires. Findings highlight implications for the strengthening of families through a collective action model that is intentionally inclusive of families—implications that I argue not only support mothers of color to fight for the rights of their children and families but also help them to construct and mend relationships that have been strained by social marginalization. Social movement and restorative justice scholarship must increasingly recognize that collective action participation is not a one-directional activity to achieve policy change but rather an interactive process that can deeply shape kinship.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44325498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariola Nerea Ereñaga-de Ana Serrano-Argüeso, Nerea Ereñaga De Jesús, A. Vidu
{"title":"Overcoming Poverty and Social Risk: A Comprehensive Action Model for Female Victims of Gender-Based Violence","authors":"Mariola Nerea Ereñaga-de Ana Serrano-Argüeso, Nerea Ereñaga De Jesús, A. Vidu","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There are many analyses that tackle the issue of gender-based violence (GBV) and its harmful consequences for women in current risk societies. Economic and social poverty constitutes an important part of these concerns. Facing this reality, several organizations are working on the implementation of positive measures for the labor and social insertion of women who find themselves immersed in the path of losing social capital due to GBV and so being at risk of exclusion. The main goal of this research is to analyze the impact of those measures implemented by public entities in the Basque Country region in terms of overcoming the poverty and social risk of victim women that has emerged in exclusionary contexts. Through in-depth interviews with third-sector organizations and victims of GBV, this article gathers firsthand experiences to further understand the situation of socioeconomic poverty suffered by this group of women and measures to improve this situation. Women's narratives frame the extent to which these actions are helpful for them and point to recommendations for improvement. This analysis sheds light not only on reintegration policies but also on those successful measures in terms of tackling and overcoming the social risk that GBV might involve. The success of the Basque Country model encourages this approach from a comprehensive action model, focusing on social dimensions such as employment, education, empowerment, support, and commitment.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"26 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45214792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This Pussy Actually Grabs Back\": A Trans Latina Expansion of \"Pussy\"","authors":"Andrea Bolivar","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the 2017 Women's March, there was a sea of \"pussyhats,\" worn in rebuke of the president's cocky statement that he can freely \"grab\" women \"by the pussy.\" Critiques emerged from various communities marginalized within the Women's March and the Pussyhat Project, by women of color, transgender folks, and sex workers. I engage with these important critiques. However, in an attempt to push the scholarly conversation beyond calls for increased intersectionality and inclusivity that I argue may rest on cisgenderist and transnormative assumptions in regard to pussyhats, I offer a trans of color critique of pussyhats based on ethnographic research with sex-working transgender Latina women in Chicago. The women, who have not received genital reconstructive surgery, freely and frequently talk about their pussies. Moreover, they creatively utilize their pussies to survive and at times thrive in Chicago's sexual economy of labor. Centering their experiences and epistemologies, I argue for a trans of color expansion of \"pussy,\" \"woman,\" and thus feminism. In response to the critiques, the Women's March banned the pussyhat after the first year. I argue that the vague pleas for intersectionality and inclusivity and the ban on the pussyhat are based in binaristic and additive understandings of gender, race, and feminism. I hope to move beyond binaristic and additive assumptions and toward a logic of expansion that allows for unlimited possibilities for women, transgender people, and feminists. Furthermore, I argue that centering the resistance of sex-working transgender Latinas is imperative for feminist change in the post-Trump era.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"158 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48404559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Love in Precarious Times: A Queer Politics of Immigration","authors":"Ariana Ochoa Camacho, K. Coll","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Increased media coverage of the human costs of border enforcement, especially the detention of children and the separation of families, has called attention to structural violence and inhumanity in the US immigration system. An estimated eleven million undocumented people and millions more members of mixed-status families have lived for years with the trauma caused by legal exclusion, economic precarity, and separation from loved ones. Yet years of legislative reform efforts and rights claims based on heteronormative notions of immigrant respectability, family unity, and economic contributions have failed to yield better policies. This article describes a turn within the immigrant rights movement in the 2010s toward a more transformative politics of radical inclusion across, not in spite of, differences in sexuality, gender, race, citizenship, and immigration status. Citing examples from immigrant public testimonies, movement publications, LISTSERVs, and social media, we argue that they offer evidence of new, durable bonds of political interdependence being forged between unusual allies in the struggle against racist and homo/transphobic state violence that we describe as a queer politics. The gains of the marriage equality movement, especially shifting cultural acceptance of same-sex love, support immigrant organizing across and beyond the constraints of strategic alliances, coalitions, and hierarchies of deservingness. Practices of loving politics, particularly in the current context, offer resources for hope for a stronger and more durable political consensus about what constitutes immigrant justice in the future.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"110 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44118366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging \"Americans Are Dreamers, Too\": Undocumented Youths' Queer and Feminist Coalition Politics","authors":"Katie E. Oliviero","doi":"10.1353/fro.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Intersectional binaries of innocence and culpability, deservedness and unworthiness, vulnerability and threat again dominate contemporary U.S. immigration controversies. Deployed across the political spectrum, these debates tiredly explore whether a pathway to citizenship for undocumented youth, dubbed Dreamers, will incentivize future groups to migrate without authorization, undercutting supposedly worthy American citizens' already vulnerable socioeconomic rights. Building from immigration justice scholarship exploring both the transformative and exclusionary effects of the Dreamers' activist tactics, this article investigates how the youth have negotiated this positioning since 2009. It performs a discourse analysis of self-proclaimed \"undocumented, queer and unafraid\" activists' manifestos, student publications, organizational talking points, direct actions, conference calls, and art to assess how they simultaneously engage with and challenge narratives of exceptionalism and vulnerability. The activists pull apart binaries of deserving and undeserving migrants and create queer and feminist coalitions based on precarity by (1) exposing how the roots and impacts of migration are embedded in systems of transnational vulnerability; (2) aligning migrants with marginalized citizens of color by invoking histories of racialized injustice to reveal the political impossibilities promised in the exceptionalist rhetoric of the American Dream; and (3) leveraging their sympathetic status to expose the human rights and legal violations ostensibly less deserving unauthorized migrants face.","PeriodicalId":46007,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers-A Journal of Women Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"49 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43943821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}