Global South Feminist Theory Working Group

The Global South Feminist Theory Working Group aims to create a space for dialogue and collaboration around feminist thought in the Global South, and to share, review, and discuss members’ own work. We welcome scholars from all Yale departments and disciplines whose work engages with gender, sexuality, race, coloniality, and decolonial critique in the Global South contexts. Our aim is to hold a bi-weekly meeting, where we will read key intellectual productions of feminist intellectuals from the Global South that interrogate questions of embodiment, intersectionality, affect, labor, literary practice, and political resistance. We also aim to address the transnational circulation of ideas between local specificity and global feminist frameworks. Further to the discussion of primary texts, we will be discussing and interrogating our own critical and intellectual production, to decenter preconceived ideas of gender, feminism, and race. We will be preparing a final mini-presentation/roundtable of some of our own work towards the end of the academic year, in the form of a symposium, open to the members of the group as well as to the general public.