Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South is a social movement ethnography of the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) focusing on their rebirth after an arson attack destroyed their headquarters in 2012. Laura McTighe and WWAV's Deon Haywood weave together stories from their founders’ pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and their groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with other movements for liberation around the globe. They share WWAV’s own world-building knowledges as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. This roundtable will emulate a "front porch talk" and showcase responses that address the themes of social organizing, Black feminist liberation, collaborative scholarship, ethnography, the context of the American South, and other facets relating to Fire Dreams.
Roundtable Session
Annual Meeting 2024
Authors meet Respondents, Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Saturday, 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Convention Center-20BC (Upper Level…
Session ID: A23-105
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Audiovisual Requirements
LCD Projector and Screen
extra microphones. it would be good to have 4.