Sarita Cannon (San Francisco State University)
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This session invites proposals on topics that will (as a session as a whole) embrace the plurality of Feminisms, enlivening current critical practice across languages, literatures, time periods, and genres. In particular, we welcome proposals that approach Feminisms through a transhistorical and/or global lens. We welcome proposals both related to the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion," and those not related.
In their 2022 book Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags, Leila Easa and Jennifer Stager “examine the public practice of feminism in the age of social media and analyze the deep histories threaded through this new(er) enactment” (2). The interdisciplinary and transhistorical nature of their study animates this panel, which hopes to engage with the following questions: How might an excavation of buried feminist histories shape current conversations about gender, sexuality, and power? How does technology - from stone tablets to TikTok - influence the ways that we engage with feminisms?