"If you were a white man, they would have negotiated with you the minute you were approached"

Dr. Shirley Anne Tate's rivoting keynote address kicked-off the Intersections of Gender's premier conference!

For Black women, working at the intersections of gender entails working with and through the (in)visibility of racism which touches--but at the same time moves away from--Black feminist (decolonial) theory and Black women’s bodies. These words, meant to salve the wounds of being made institutionally valueless as subject and producer of knowledge because of race and gender, demonstrate the continuing hatred/contempt/disgust within the white spaces in which Black women work at the intersections of race and gender.

At our premier conference, we warmly welcomed faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral colleagues, as well as community members, activists, and artists whose work grapples with and addresses the intersections of gender. This included research, teaching and activism on gender, sexuality, feminism, and its intersections (race, Indigeneity, class, sexuality, disability, language, age, citizenship, etc.).

Hear Dr. Shirley Anne Tate's keynote address: "If you were a white man, they would have negotiated with you the minute you were approached" - Bodies of value in academic life.