Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas

Feminist movements from the Americas provide some of the most innovative, visible, and all-encompassing forms of organizing and resistance. With their diverse backgrounds, these movements address sexism, sexualized violence, misogyny, racism, homo- and transphobia, coloniality, extractivism, climate crisis, and neoliberal capitalist exploitation as well as the interrelations of these systems. Fighting interlocking axes of oppression, feminists from the Americas represent, practice, and theorize a truly intersectional politics. Feminisms in Movement: Theories and Practices from the Americas brings together a wide variety of perspectives and formats, spanning from the realms of arts and activism to academia. Black and decolonial feminist voices and queer/cuir perspectives, ecofeminist approaches and indigenous women’s mobilizations inspire future feminist practices and inform social and cohabitation projects.

With contributions from Rita Laura Segato, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, and interviews with Anielle Franco (Brazilian activist and minister) and with the Chilean feminist collective LASTESIS.

Lívia De Souza Lima is a PhD candidate in InterAmerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld and a fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Her main research focus lies in the intersection of gender and political representation, in which she works with Black and decolonial feminist perspectives.
Edith Otero Quezada is a doctoral candidate in InterAmerican Studies and a member of the research training group »Experiencing Gender« at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Universität Bielefeld. Her research interests are postcolonial and decolonial feminist epistemologies, political subjectivity, (post)memory, guerrillas, and social movements, especially in Latin America and Central America.
Julia Roth is a professor of American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Universität Bielefeld, where she is also PI of the graduate school »Experiencing Gender«. Her research interests are gender approaches, intersectionality theorising, gender and citizenship, right-wing populism and gender, migrant knowledges and new feminist movements.