Anticolonial Feminisms

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This course explores how Latinx/e and Chicana feminisms exist in relation to distinct genealogies of anticolonial feminism. Feminism, in this course, is both a theory and a praxis, and framing these modes of feminism as anticolonial seeks to bridge feminist theories that emerge from distinct communities and places, highlighting their liberatory emphases. Thinking transnationally, we will ground our thinking from the places and movements from across the Americas that these theories emerged from. Lastly, we will consider how feminisms from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, queer, trans, and global majority geographies are often grounded in liberatory struggles that are antipatriarchal, anticolonial and/or anticapitalist.