Disability Justice as Feminist Practice
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Feminism and Social Change
In spring of 2022 the Women's Center and Gender and Sexuality Studies ran a Linzer grant-funded course called Feminism and Social Change. The intention of this course, and others like it yet to come, is to provide Northwestern undergraduates with an opportunity to integrate the theory they learn in lecture and discussion into their understanding of activist, artistic, and educational work taking place in and around Chicago.
The course took as its subject matter the Women's Center annual theme of Disability Justice as Feminist Practice. Our final syllabus is available here.
Students worked in groups on an interview final project. The interview subjects were chosen, all of the questions were written, and all of the planning and collaboration was managed by students in the course. Linzer grant funds permitted us to compensate interview subjects.
With permission, we are sharing those interviews here. The objectives of this project are to interrogate the relationships between theory and practice, engage students with sources of higher education beyond the academy, and inform the Northwestern community about important work taking place around them.
Please share out!
Lauren Kelly, Isabel Funk, and Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano
speak with Sky Cubacub, founder of Rebirth Garments.
Donnie Gray, Sarah Eisenmann, and Jasmyn Rieff speak with Euree Kim, cofounder of the project Alternatives to Calling the Police during a Mental Health Crisis.