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JACQUI ALEXANDER

Black Feminist Lesbian writer/scholar/activist/conjurer M. Jacqui Alexander on Signified … As Always, Jacqui breaks it down in a deeply spiritual and metaphysical way…

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M. Jacqui Alexander is a teacher, writer, and scholar, currently at the Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She has written extensively on the heteronormative, regulatory practices of the modern state and the different ways in which radical communities, both outside and inside the academy, position themselves in relation to these practices. Her most recent scholarship has taken up questions of the sacred dimensions of experience and the meaning of sacred subjectivity. It also involves writing the life of an enslaved Kongolese woman in the Caribbean. Her publications include: Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997) with Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World(Edgework, 2002) with Sharon Day, Lisa Albrecht, and Mab Segrest; Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory and the Sacred (Duke, 2006). She is a member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action. [M. Jacqui Alexander]

For Act 2’s public hearing, M. Jacqui Alexander contributed with the paper “Colonialism and its Contemporaries: Feminist Reflections on the State of War and the Meaning of Solidarity.” She summarizes the paper in the following words: “The paper marks the continuities and discontinuities between this contemporary moment of empire building and earlier forms of colonization in order to establish how the colonial is implicated in the modern. I use a transnational feminist framework to show that these processes are simultaneously racialized, sexualized, and gendered. ‘State’ here is meant to refer to the militarized imperatives at work in the neo-imperial state, the states of violence that promote silence and patriotism, and the psychic states that rely on segregations and the production of the ‘enemy’ as grounds on which to constitute citizenship. I end by reflecting upon the need to build interdisciplinary political solidarity networks that cross boundaries of various kinds.” [M. Jacqui Alexander] To download the paper, click  here.

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