Queering Spiritual Activism: Anzaldua’s Inner Work and Social Change

Catalog description

This workshop examines the spiritual dimensions of Gloria Anzaldua’s work as scholar and activist. Focusing specifically on her concept of “spiritual activism” the workshop considers the challenges she brings to assumed understandings of ethics and epistemology through the queering of assumed categories of mind/body, material/ideological, individual/collective. Students will be asked to engage these in-between-spaces and reflect upon what insights emerge for transformative activism.