Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit
We invite papers and presentations that consider the following (with priority given to international voices, graduate students/PhDs, etc.):
Proposals that lend themselves to the format of an online meeting and reflect the priorities of WOCSTA as outlined in our statement of purpose.
We especially encourage submissions of vlogs or other formats that reflect diverse modalities for sharing the work that Women Of Color are doing in the academy and the community (including religious communities).
This Unit fosters intellectual exchange in the fields of religious studies and theology as they are developing in diverse communities of color from a gendered analysis. While the AAR features Program Units from diverse communities of color, we provide a space for conversation between communities of color. This Unit does not assume a prior “women of color” identity, but centers a woman of color analytic that deconstructs the intersecting logics of gender and race. At the same time, we do not hold to a “post-identity” framework and are also concerned with the status of women of color in the academy, the politics of pedagogy, and the relationship between women-of-color-centered activism and scholarship. Understanding identity as performative and shifting, we make the very category of “women of color” itself a site for political and intellectual engagement.