Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Author at Public Seminar

The similarities and differences of these social movements

I have seen many comments on social media about the significant difference in how the emergence of the student mobilizations against gun violence has been greeted compared to the Black insurgency of Black Lives Matter. It is an important discussion to have because if these current mobilizations hope to grow into ...

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Beyond lean-in

For a feminism of the 99%–and a militant international strike on March 8

February 6, 2017 • by Linda Martin Alcoff, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Angela Davis, Nancy Fraser, Barbara Ransby, Barbara Smith, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Rasmea Yousef Odeh

The kind of feminism we seek is already emerging internationally, in struggles across the globe: from the women’s strike in Poland against the abortion ban to the women’s strikes and marches in Latin America against male violence; from the massive women’s demonstration of the last November in Italy to the ...