Sponsored by the Dean of the Faculty Office.Ĭo-Sponsors: Women, Feminist and Queer Studies Program History Department American Studies Program Latin American & Latinx Studies Program Women's Center LGBQT Center. Beck brings a journalistic background to this discussion while also acknowledging and giving voice to the personal, experiential costs of participating in a women’s movement that demands we be constantly vigilant about internal colonization and marginalization practices. Previously, she was the executive editor at Vogue and cohost of The MeToo Memos on WNYC’s The Takeaway.

Using pop culture, primary historical research, and first-hand storytelling, Beck discusses the ways elitism and racial prejudice has driven the narrative of feminist discourse, focusing particularly on overlooked communities-including Native American, Muslim, transgender, and more-and their difficult and ongoing struggles for social change. Koa Beck is the author of White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind, and she is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel. Koa Beck knows that feminism includes all women and girls by definition, and is writing to overcome anti-feminist divisions that divide and defeat us.' Gloria Steinem A timely and. In this talk, author Koa Beck will examine the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragists to the rise of corporate feminism-paying careful attention to the ways capitalism and racism have functioned as structuring forces within dominant feminist culture.

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