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, The City We Became.
Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide.
Grace Adenyi Ogunyankin, ‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low-income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Ramírez, M.M., “Take the Houses Back/Take the Land Back: Black and Indigenous Urban Futures in Oakland."
Micha Cardenas, “Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms”
Natalie Oswin, (2015), World, City, Queer.
The Disembodied Territories Project
Patricia Noxolo, Flat Out! Dancing the city at a time of austerity.
Jaime Amparo Alves, The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil.
Teju Cole, Open City.
Videos
Dionne Brand and Vahni Capildeo, Walking Cities.
Cauleen Smith, Black Feminist Utopia.
Ananya Roy, Rainer Forst & Pete White, On the Road to Change: Los Angeles.
International Women* Space: "You can't evict a movement"