The United States is home to 47.8 million immigrants, the majority of which have government-sanctioned status in the country. Immigrants make invaluable contributions to society and are owed dignity, just as are all humans. Despite this, immigrants are often exploited, abused, imprisoned, and deported--often through degrading and dehumanizing processes. People are losing protected status and being swept up and imprisoned without warning. This causes severe distress to them, their community, family, and friends.
This summer, the Feminist Research Institute hosted interns due to the generous sponsorship of the CITRIS Banatao Institute. We wanted to highlight our summer interns, namely who they are, what their final project was, what they learned from this internship, and their goals.
In this course, we will read Weathering by Arline T. Geronimus, the UC Davis Campus Community Book Project for 2024-25. Students will read the text with a feminist lens, with supplemental materials introducing perspectives from Black feminists. Goals for the class will be to frameworks, practices, and concrete actions students can take to counter injustice. We will also explore the relationship between intersectionality and justice, with attention to race, gender, disability, queerness, and nationality.
This course investigates how ecofeminism and queer theory—often inspired by indigenous and decolonial perspectives—disrupt traditional narratives surrounding nature, culture, and power. We will unsettle boundaries between dichotomies such as nature/culture, life/death, mind/body, human/non-human, matter/spirit, and within various social constructs such as race and gender. We will trace the violent effects of patriarchy, human-exceptionalism, white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, and modern science.
Did you know that the Feminist Research Institute has an Undergraduate Research Board? Read more about our new 2022-23 members at the end of this article!
FRI's Future Faces of Research series features the voices of undergraduate students writing about their experiences doing justice and equity focused research.
FRI is proud to present Future Faces of Research. This new series features the voices of undergraduate students writing about their experiences doing justice and equity focused research. The inaugural piece is written by Ellie Legg, FRI undergraduate researcher.
Feminist Research Institute Director Kalindi Vora will be teaching a graduate seminar Winter 2020 about how to integrate feminist approaches into scientific research design. Graduate students from all fields are welcome!
WMS 201: Asking Different Questions: Feminist approaches to scientific research and design
Thursdays 2:10-5pm
Hart Hall 1208
CRN: 76861
Instructor: Dr. Kalindi Vora
Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS) presents
Bringing #BlackGirlMagic into the Classroom
A Community Discussion on Black Girlhood, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and Critical Pedagogies
