This year for International Women’s Day (IWD), Gender Studies and Black Studies are looking to the city—and thinking about how feminist and anti-racist organizers, creatives, and researchers have challenged us to re-imagine the city, rebuild the city, redefine the city, and better understand the global, transnational, and diasporic contours of the urban.
Here is a list of essays and books and videos we have found useful:
N.K. Jemison,
Leslie Kern,
Grace Adenyi Ogunyankin, ‘The City of Our Dream’:
RamÃrez, M.M.,
Micha Cardenas,
Natalie Oswin, (2015),
Patricia Noxolo,
Jaime Amparo Alves,
Teju Cole,
Videos
Dionne Brand and Vahni Capildeo,
Cauleen Smith,
Ananya Roy, Rainer Forst & Pete White,
International Women* Space: