vhesford.bsky.social
Feminist academic. Reader and writer on American queer and feminist culture and politics in the 1970s. Women's sports fan. Manchester is Red.
👤 Joined on 23 August 2023
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@vhesford.bsky.socialMy article "Illness as Policy: Eugenics, Trauma, and Political Funerals" is now up at QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. This was part of a series on Trump's first 90 days that took awhile to come out (lol, academic publishing). Anyway, I think it still holds up.
Show PostAbout three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.
Show PostFantastic first meeting of our Feminism by Design in Crisis Times reading group today. We read Veronica Gago's "#WeStrike: Toward a Political Theory of the Feminist Strike" & Rita Segato's "Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juárez: Territory, Sovereignty, &Crimes of the Second State"
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