Reading Group: Fighting Racism and Sexual Violence

Our second reading group will address how the ongoing history of racism shapes understandings of sexual violence. In particular, we will strategize about how SATX4 and our community can better link the exposure of systemic racial injustice with fighting gender and sexual oppression.

Readings (available in .pdf form at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6u5lt0jihzltvlc/AAAsp8JIW9a5pXHYLu1h6eEfa?dl=0)

(1) Angela Davis, “Rape, Racism, and the Myth of the Black Rapist,” from Women, Race, and Class

(2) bell hooks, “The Imperialism of Patriarchy,” from Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism

(3) Catherine O. Fox, “(Un)Covering Normalized Gender and Race Subjectivities in LGBT ‘Safe Spaces,'” Feminist Studies (2010)

(4) Morgan Bassichis, et al, “Building an Abolitionist Trans & Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got,” from Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

In addition, we will be collecting donations for the Inside Books Project, an Austin-based organization that sends books and other educational materials to prisoners in Texas. (It is the only books-to-prisoners organization in the state.) Please bring any used books (including dictionaries and how-to manuals) you wish to donate. Because of cost, IBP is unable to send hardcover fiction or encyclopedias.

The meeting will take place at Domesticas Unidas, 1606 Fulton Ave, San Antonio