``We do not stand outside the world, looking out over this sea of poor benighted people, living under the shadow – or veil – of oppressive cultures; we are part of that world.``
Lila Abu-Lughod
``It is far easier to talk about the tragedy of LGBTQ youth suicide than it is to find ways to comprehend and address the complexity of their lives and identities.``
Tey Meadow
“Every generation confronts the task of choosing its past. Inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on.``
Saidiya Hartman
``Universities and colleges are centers of knowledge production – asking hard questions and drawing on insights from across the disciplines to answer them is what we do best.``
Jennifer Hirsch
``These are revolutionary times that beg us to think, in newer and different ways, about what we will do in this moment.``
Alondra Nelson
``I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely.``
Jack Halberstam
``Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.``
Carolyn Heilbrun
``Feminist analysis can shift the frames of intelligibility so as to allow new experiences to emerge, experiences that have heretofore remained unspoken, or even unthought.``
Marianne Hirsch
WGSS IN PRAXIS
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, nationalism, gender and sexuality. She has published essays on a wide range of issues including: Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, the modern Levant, gender and nationalism, cultural memory and immigration, memory and gender, Hebrew Literature, Israeli and Palestinian Cinema, Mediterraneanism, Trauma and Narrative.
``I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach -- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle``.
Angela Davis
