Violent Systems and Accumulated Pain: Embodied Feminist Solidarities through/across Hurt

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Acknowledgments

The author thanks Ashley R. Hall for conceptualizing the NCA panel from which this forum emerged, the contributors, and Sarah J. Jackson. Donna Dopwell, Shuzhen Huang, Ashleigh McKinzie, and Terrie Wong also offered valuable insights that contributed to this essay.

Notes

1 Robin Morgan’s edited anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful offers one example of how the language of sisterhood was utilized by white feminists in a manner that centered white voices and experiences. bell hooks, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, and other BIPOC feminists critiqued such visions of sisterhood as damaging in their colorblindness and “ideological erasure” (Saldívar-Hull 204).

2 Original title has been slightly modified to avoid perpetuating homophobic harms (see The Ranty Librarian).