2024 Dallas Cullen Memorial Lecture
Andrea Pitts, University at Buffalo
Latinx Abolition Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics
Monday, March 11, 2024 @ 4:00 - 5:00 pm MDT
Location: Tory 1-096
All events will be wheelchair accessible. For access needs, contact chloe3@ualberta.ca
Abstract:
Drawing from interdisciplinary fields such as Latinx studies, feminist theory, and critical prison studies, this presentation foregrounds the historical and contemporary work of U.S. Latina/x writers and activists to examine how each offers philosophical contributions to abolitionist feminist frameworks. The talk will address published writings by Latina/x feminist authors, as well as materials from Latina/x activists from the 1960s until today whose philosophical praxis can be gleaned through their interviews, archival documents, and print media
Bio:
Andrea Pitts is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. They are the author of Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance (2021), and co-editor of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (2019), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, and a forthcoming volume titled Trans Philosophy, which will be released later this year with the Univ. of Minnesota Press.