We are living in hard times. Pandemics, climate change, neoliberal capitalism, deportations and state violence, genocide, cisheteropatriarchy, white supremacy, ableist disposability, erasure, and necropolitics. In this workshop, we are going to enhance our toolkits for our survival and sustenance while we imagine worlds in which we thrive. You and I will share our favorite speculative fiction that helps us understand our current dystopias, and helps us imagine the worlds we can build. I will share speculative fiction and writings by women/femmes of color and Indigenous women in North America around survival and care in response to the crises we face. Come enhance your toolkits with spells for insurgency, self and collective care, bowls for our rage, and/or mementos of joy.
Guest Bio: Jigna Desai is Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Asian American Studies and the director of the Center for Feminist Futures. She is the author of Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film (Routledge 2004) and co-editor of several collections. She has written extensively in women of color and queer of color studies. She loves teaching feminist and queer speculative fiction and film.
