The Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program is excited to announce the organization of a reading group this semester on Why Palestine Is a Feminist Issue. We invite you to join us as we educate ourselves, sharing readings that consider Palestine through a feminist lens.

The group meets 4:15 PM -5:15 PM in 190 Rockefeller Hall.

On October 24, we will have the pleasure of hosting and discussing work by Zillah Eisenstein, anti-racist feminist political theorist and activist. Zillah was a professor at Ithaca College for 35 years and is presently a Distinguished Scholar in Residence. She writes regularly for Al Jazeera.com and FeministWire.com; we will be reading four of her recent articles on the war in Gaza. 

War Rape and the Question of Hamas:
https://www.theedgemedia.org/?p=1698&preview=1&_ppp=6ce1fd5cea

From My Body to Yours, and Gaza to the World:
https://www.theedgemedia.org/my-body-to-yours-gaza-to-world/

The Rise of Misogynoir Fascism:
https://www.theedgemedia.org/rise-of-misogynoir-fascism/

WHAT TO DO? Complicity and resistance in a time of Genocidal Agony and Catastrophe:
https://cornell.box.com/s/dl29rfov60cgwqdo1ra8gx17li0bwaqn

As Zillah says,
"I write from and with the body--with special focus on women's bodies--inclusive of trans, bi, gender-nonconforming--in this genocide to expose the cruelty of war."

Her most recent books include Abolitionist Socialist Feminism, Radicalizing the Next Revolution (New York: Monthly Review

Press, 2019); The Audacity of Races and Genders: A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Election

(London: Zed Press, New York: Palgrave, 2009); Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy (London: Zed Press; New York: Palgrave, 2007); and Against Empire: Feminisms, Race and the West (London:Zed Press; New York:Palgrave; Kali: India; Spinifex: Australia and New Zealand, 2004

Next meetings:
November 14th
December 5th

Please RSVP to:
Professor Jane Juffer, Director, FGSS, jaj93@cornell.edu