Feminism’s Archives: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Selma James

Review the recording of our second event this semester on April 6th: a conversation with Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Black feminist theorist and theoretical physicist and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021), and her grandmother Selma James, long-time feminist activist and ‘Wages for Housework’ co-founder. In keeping with this spring’s Organizing Stories theme, Feminism’s Archives, Prescod-Weinstein and James engaged in conversation about James’ new book, Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet (2021), and the legacies of inter-generational feminism. Purchase their books in the hyperlinks above.

Here are links to some reading resources referenced or shared by the speakers during the talk:

• Click here for more information about Global Women's Strike

• Check out a new collection of selected writings, The Point is to Change the World (2020), by Guyanese feminist activist Andaiye, with whom Selma organized in Global Women’s Strike

• Learn more about 'Mama Roz' Gloria Rosaline Preudhomme, an influential Black organizer who had organized important campaigns against the War on Drugs