'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧢

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧢

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians

#CFP

Between Research and Activism: Futures of Music and Minority Studies

πŸ“ Vienna, Austria (on-site)
πŸ“… 12–14 February 2026

Explores intersections of #Ethnomusicology, #Activism, and #SocialEngagement; focuses on #Minorities and #Power through the lens of #Interdisciplinarity.

Deadline: 15/07/2025

https://www.mdw.ac.at/upload/MDWeb/musicandminorities/downloads/CfP_BetweenResearchAndActivism_MMRC.pdf

#MinorityStudies #SoundStudies #ActivistScholarship #MusicResearch #AppliedResearch #ParticipatoryActionResearch #PAR #CollaborativeResearch #Anthropology

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Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen makes "a significant and important contribution to the ethnographic research field on ethnically and racially minoritized students and their families", Lærke Vildlyng writes in her review of recently published "Muslim Farthers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools".

🌐 πŸ‘‰ https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241293605

#sociology #ethnography #minoritystudies #socialscience #AcademicJournals @sociology @academicchatter

#AcademicJob

#Postdoc in #MinorityStudies

@ Γ…bo Akademi University

"In this recruitment, we are looking for a researcher with expertise in business administration and its intersections with dimensions relevant to the research profile such as #gender, #SocialClass, age, #MinorityStatus, language and origin."

Deadline: 01/12/2023

https://academicpositions.fr/ad/abo-akademi-university/2023/postdoctoral-researcher-in-minority-studies/208116

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Γ…bo Akademi University is an internationally acknowledged research university with an extensive responsibility for providing education in Swedish in Finland....

Dear Fediverse,

My colleague and I are adding literature with a focus on diversity (in the widest and probably wokest sense) into our English as a foreign language curriculum.

Now we are looking for scientific articles that discuss the following:

the effect of using literature multicultural competencies and citizenship in education

Any suggestions?

#genderstudies #minoritygroups #diversitystudies #diversity #diversitymastodon #Education #teachinglit #EducationMatters #minoritystudies