Disrupting Harm: GWIS #SafeAtWork and the Feminist Killjoy Framework

September 2, 2020 · by · in
The cover of the Grad Quarterly Magazine (GQM) Broken Silence: Student Accounts of Sexual Violence in STEM (2017), from UMass Graduate Women in STEM (GWIS).

The two readings for this week are the GWIS GQM Broken Silence from 2017 (follow the link to view online or download a pdf), and the article “Organizing for collective feminist killjoy geographies in a US university”.

As a content warning: This conversation will deal with sexual assault and harassment on our campus, and might be triggering for some people. We want you to gauge your own level of how you do or do not want to engage with this material.

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