Women and Migration(s)
Women and Migrations intends to cultivate and support collaborations that advance scholarship, teaching, artistic and literary projects, and public engagements that activate new paradigms through which to understand migrations, identity, race, gender, and work by exploring the global movements of women. Storytelling – visual, literary and historical – about the reasons that women migrate, facilitates a re-imagination of migration, challenges normative xenophobic ideas of migrants, undermines a politics of exclusion rooted in fear, bias and political manipulation, and contributes to the re-shaping of structures of knowledge. By centering the voices of migrant women, widening the disciplinary and temporal lenses, and intentionally anchoring the work in movements for social justice, Women and Migration(s) will organize and support cross-disciplinary scholarly and artistic collaboration and provide public space for on-going reflection and debate on migrations and other global mobilities.
Credit: Sama Alshaibi, Sabkhat al-Milḥ (Salt Flats) 2014, from the “Silsila” series, Chromogenic print mounted on Diasec, 47 in. diameter. Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery.
Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
The Global Plantation
A Conversation with Artists Annalee Davis & Julie Gough
We No Longer Consider them Damaged: The Abstract Photos of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhou
New work from W&M collaborator Sarah K. Khan
Black Joy and Resistance: A conversation with Adreinne Waheed andJamel Shabazz
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